Reply #83: I think you hit it on the nose. [View All]

[calmblueocean]

Nearly all of Obama's applause lines are positive. They involve people from different classes, races, and even parties coming together to make America better. Progressives are NOT used to hearing positivity coming from their leadership. They are used to hearing the squalls of impotent rage.

What's so crazy to me is that some people have begun to *need* that rage, to feed on it and even hunger for it. And Obama doesn't play that game. So many will criticize him for it, saying that he "speaks in platitudes" or some such nonsense. All the anti-Bush screaming we've heard for the past 8 years is just as platitudinous, if not more so.

I keep hoping that the hardcore Democrats who've learned to subsist on rage will open their eyes and see how Obama really does offer to transform our political message into something that the entire country can get behind, and not just the activist class. Personally, I think if we don't nominate him, we are blowing a major opportunity, but you know... it wouldn't be the first time we've done that!