An oh so appropriate article for GDP: When Democrats Go Post-al

Just opened my new copy of Vanity Fair and look what's in there:

James Wolcott

When Democrats Go Post-al

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/06/wolcott200806

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Once Edwards dropped out of the race, however, the buffer zone was removed, direct contact replaced triangulation, and the Obama and Hillary supporters faced off like the Jets and the Sharks. The rancor was disproportionate in intensity and extravagant in invective, a fervor worthy of ancestral foes. Months-old grievances seethed and erupted as if they had been bubbling for centuries in a lake of bad blood. On the most egoistic plane, it seemed like a clash of entitlements, the messianics versus the menopausals. The Obama-ites exuded the confidence of those who feel that they embody the future and are the seed bearers of energies and new modalities too long smothered under the thick haunches of the tired, old, entrenched way of doing things. The Hillarions felt a different imperative knocking at the gate of history, the long-overdue prospect of the first woman taking the presidential oath of office. For them, Hillary’s time had come, she had paid her dues, she had been thoroughly vetted, she had survived hairdos that would have sunk lesser mortals, and she didn’t let a little thing like being loathed by nearly half of the country bum her out and clog her transmission. Not since Nixon had there been such a show of grinding perseverance in the teeth of adversity, and Nixon in a pantsuit was never going to be an easy sell contrasted with the powerful embroidery of Obama’s eloquence—his very emergence on the political scene seemed like a feat of levitation. Hillary’s candidacy promised to make things better; Obama’s to make us better: outward improvement versus inward transformation. With Hillary, you would earn your merit badges; with Obama, your wings. Hillary’s candidacy was warmed-over meat loaf—comfort food for those too old or fearful to Dream.
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...A pro-Hillary liberal blogger named Tom Watson, the author of a forthcoming book about political-social-charitable online networking called CauseWired, summarized the discord with a post titled “The Left Splits: Writers Flee DailyKos over Clinton-Bashing,” decrying the flaming shish kebabs being chucked across the banquet room.
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.....Democrats have pulled their punches for so long that they know only how to hit themselves in the face, earning the reputation for masochism that gives Dick Cheney a good chuckle each night at bedtime as he’s being packed in ice.

(he goes into the Kos "strike," Clinton vs. Obama blog supporters, etc.)

I've been saying this for a couple of months now...

I feel like we've fallen for yet another GOP dirty trick, playing right into their hands.