Bob Kerrey, Democrat, says Obama faces threat from liberals.

madfloridian

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Sat Nov-15-08 04:20 PM
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Bob Kerrey, Democrat, says Obama faces threat from liberals.

Edited on Sat Nov-15-08 04:24 PM by madfloridian

One can always count on Bob Kerrey to keep us liberals and "partisans" in line. Me, I am both...did I tell you? I am becoming more so by the moment as the right wing Democrats trot out their usual warnings.

How Obama can walk the post-partisan talk

There's that word again. How many of you realize that post partisan means one-party rule? It does. If that occurs all we fought for the last 8 years is for nothing.

My worry is not with increased threats from abroad. I am convinced those threats will be reduced with Obama's election and the beginning of a much more sensible and trustworthy American foreign policy.

By my lights, the primary threat to the success of a President Obama will come from some Democrats who, emboldened by the size of their congressional majority, may try to kill trade agreements, raise taxes in ways that will destroy jobs, repeal the Patriot Act and spend and regulate to high heaven.

This is where Obama's persona is invaluable. He can withstand the arguments and pressure of the liberal wing in the Democratic caucus if, once elected, he is guided by the best instincts he has displayed on the campaign trail.

I believe this is likely because Obama will surround himself with professionals, not ideologues or acolytes. An unprecedented number of patriotic, politically savvy and centrist men and women have been part of his campaign team - and are therefore likely to make up President Obama's governing team.

You really need to read all of Centrist Bob Kerrey's advice to Obama.

They are really on tear now, those centrists are. They are hitting the news cycles fast and furious to keep partisans in their place outside of the party proper and leadership. Pow, bang, one after the other.

Al From of the DLC just reminded President Elect Obama that we are now in a "Post Partisan" era.

That promise is to change Washington, govern bigger than his party and forge a post-partisan political era. He pledged to tackle the country�s most pressing economic, domestic and security challenges by delivering a new kind of politics.

With the superpartisan Bush White House finally history and swelled majorities in both Houses, Democratic constituencies will have plenty of pent-up demands, and some Democrats in Congress may be tempted to engage in political payback.

I can sympathize with those desires, but Obama needs to resist them, for the success of his presidency � and, ultimately, his success in building a lasting political majority � will depend not on whether he satisfies the insiders in Washington but on whether he improves the lives of ordinary Americans who put their trust in him.

There also came the hit pieces on Howard Dean, that he could not be in the Obama administration because he spent his Washington career trying to thin the ranks of congressional Republicans that the Obama White House will need to court during the expected debate on health care reform

In other words, in more simple words, he won. But that made him too partisan to appeal to Republicans, while super-partisan Rahm Emanuel is right next to the new Commander in Chief.

Funny how that works.