Two of the best recent examples of the Obama Administration's use of the 'pragmatic' argument were Jonathan Alter & David Axelrod during the months that Obama & the DLCers schemed to get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.
See here.
And here.
And here.
And here.
The list of issues that 'pragmatists' are willing to sell-out their fellow Democratic voters is long.
If they're not in Guantanamo, closing it down doesn't affect them (or so they believe), so they tell those whose lives are being devastated by those laws, "Relaaaaaaax, it's no big deal. Obama will get around to it (sometime in the next 8 years)."
And if he doesn't, if it's 2016, nothing substantive has changed either legislatively or culturally, will 'pragmatists' still be saying about the Democratic Party's candidate, "He really does want to close it down, & does want to stop k!IIing civilians in Pakistan, etc., he does see that the Bush-Obama ways don't end t3rr0rism, but he can't say or do anything now during the campaign or he risks losing the mushy middle or Republican crossovers who don't support it", as Obama's FISA vote in July 2008 was peddled to the Democratic base?
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