MoveOn Promoted to "Institution" by Washington Post

[thunder rising]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/12/moveons_regional_move.html

MoveOn.org endorsed Barack Obama recently, that brought the insurgent-turned-front-runner more than just money or the imprimatur of one of the most visible institutions on the American left.

Does that mean MoveOn will become another stale, lazy, sluggish, out of touch, entity?
Naaahhhhh

[ixion]

1. the death blow for any organization is to become an institution

:(

[Hekate]

2. Wow, I feel like we've finally arrived. I remember when MoveOn flew completely under the MSM radar--

Brazillions of us signing petitions to Censure and Move On, and you had to look for a newspaper article with a magnifying glass, not to mention that the tv news couldn't be bothered. Internet activism? What's that?

Now they know.

Hekate

[rocktivity]

3. Institution? Nah, they're were a handful of rabid hysterical radical fringers

who MUST be kept muzzled by centrist Dems or else they'll scare off independents!

:eyes:
rocknation

[scarletwoman]

4. "Does that mean MoveOn will become another stale, lazy, sluggish, out of touch, entity?"

You mean they're not already?

Sorry, as far as I'm concerned, MoveOn has been irrelevant for years.

In any case, MoveOn is actually an institution of "American Liberalism" -- certainly NOT the left. And it IS an institution. The WaPo only got the "left" part wrong.

sw

[Wiley50]

5. But, I don't think I belong in an institution. I'd have to be crazy n/t

[rocktivity]

6. So Obama's an insurgent, eh?

Insurging against whom?

:shrug:
rocknation