Reply #63: "Neither will change politics" [View All]

Obama already has.

By simply changing the basic algebra on how campaigns are funded he has taken the importance of big spenders out of the equation.

But you have already written the final act. He is a politician and it is impossible to change the way things are done.

Your personal viewpoint obscures the facts. The facts are that campaigns will never be funded nor will they be perceived the same way again.

That is a fact. "It seems we don't need no stinkin' facts around here these days"> Your the one that has allowed personal ideological point of view to obscure the fact.

Having established that politics will change why don't we give him the benefit of the doubt and see what else might be changed.

Of course you will be able to bury him later.

There is a certain nihilism in progressive politics which wants to stand in perpetual judgement and discount any advance even if it

was an advance that no one thought possible 6 months ago. In this case no one thought that 1.5 million people would put in $ 100 each and completely move the big spenders out of the power equation.


Ironically this is the same condition Rev. Wright suffers from and Obama talked about in his Philadelphia speech. By clinging to to certain sancrosanct conclusions that 'neither will change politics' they actually make it more difficult to actualize the change that was in fact possible all along.


Politics has been completely changed, it will never be thought of the same way and it will never be funded the same way and yes that is a fact.