Liberal Bloggers Accuse Obama of Trying to Win Election

Posted July 2, 2008 | 07:43 AM (EST) The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.

Suspicions about Sen. Obama's true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party's losing tradition.

"Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes," wrote liberal blogger Carol Foyler at LibDemWatch.com, a blog read by a half-dozen other liberal bloggers. "He must be stopped."

But those comments were not nearly as strident as those of Tracy Klugian, whose blog LoseOn.org has backed unsuccessful Democratic candidates since 2000.

"Increasingly, Barack Obama's message is becoming more accessible, appealing, and yes, potentially successful," he wrote. "Any Democrat who voted for Dukakis, Mondale or Kerry should regard this as a betrayal."

Liberal bloggers said that they would be watching Sen. Obama's vice-presidential selection process "very closely" for signs that he is plotting to win the election.

"Barack Obama still has a chance to pick someone disastrous as a sign that he wants to lose this thing," Ms. Foyler wrote. "If not, he should brace himself for some really mean blog posts."

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times

You know, by golly, I think they're right.

Are we to stand by and let that happen? I say a resounding

YES!

Fuck yes, let the repub butt-whopping commence!

Screw Bush and his "Leave No Child's Behind" lackeys... throw them all out on their ear.

At least with TRUE liberals and conservatives, people have a choice... not this mish-mash of neo-conservative--failed liberals--and neo-liberals--failed humans.

a pass on this one. I'm not sure that Obama could lose to McGramps, even if he tried. Anyway....this angle always brings Congresswoman Maxine Waters to my mind. And fer sher...God Bless Ms. Waters - she represents her constituents well. But in the olden Democratic days....pre-DNC Chairman Dean, she could always be counted on to make a public scene about some righteous issue, at the most inopportune times. The Democrats seem to have finally figured that one out.

yep, they're screaming all over the liberal blogs, as are some of our lefties here, about Obama's this position and Obama's that position....which aren't deemed as PURE as they would like.

Obama may have outsmarted them/us as he's given them a venue on his website to bitch to him to their heart's content. LOL.