Gibbs: Obama Still Wants To Feel Pressure From The Left

I don't think it was a mistake at all. I think it served two purposes for Obama and the DLC.



They believe that the left has two choices come this election: Sit it out or vote for Democrats. Either way can serve them.



I've been writing for years about the DLC's plan to turn the Democratic Party into the old Republican Party (moderate). Clinton, one of the co-founders of the DLC (along with Joe Lieberman) started it off in that direction, and Obama continues the tradition. One particular faction within the Republican Party that Clinton never dared to go after (the religious right) Obama has been going after.



The more that Obama insults the left, the more the media makes the Tea Party into something that it isn't (a serious movement of any kind, with staggering membership numbers), the more likely Republicans move toward the Democratic Party. And the more irrelevant we on the left make ourselves, by supporting Obama and the DLC.
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