"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931), American inventor
Some would say that Soj, the author of this post at the liberal weblog Daily Kos, has taken unnecessarily cheap, racist shots at our Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Gerard Van Der Leun minces few words as he expresses his dissatisfaction with Soj's insensitivity, and with other perceived shortcomings of members of his former party of choice, the Democrats:
"This week we have 'The Daily Kos' framing Colin Powell as an 'Uncle Tom' in 'Massah's' House...I guess that the Martin Luther King dream of judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin is just a distant memory among a lot of Democrats."
Van Der Leun's concerns about the Democrats sound like some of those expressed by Senator Zell Miller (Ga) who I've written about in a previous post:
"The party whose ideals once excited me has become a parody of itself, a dangerous parody...Instead of telling us what sort of New Jerusalem it would have us build as our City on the Hill, it takes us into the slums of the soul...What we see instead is a party that...is so deeply out of touch with so much of the body politic that it has turned in upon itself in its hunger for power...That's why we see these snide and creepy slips beginning to erupt from deep beneath the surface of the party in incidents where the deaths of Americans are celebrated and decent public servants are denigrated through racial slurs."
Miller has begun actively campaigning for Bush as have prominent Democrats like former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell and former N.Y. City Mayor Ed Koch, among others. I expect Van Der Leun will be joining them soon based on the disillusionment he has given voice to in this interesting post.
2 comments:
I suppose that for politicians like Mr. Miller, it is much easier to read the smells in the wind and jump into the trash pile of least resistance. Heaven forbid that he stay the course in his own little heap and perhaps make a significant change for his percieved "better". I say good riddance to him.
Perhaps, like Ronald Reagan before him, Zell did not leave the the Democratic Party, instead, the Party left him. Having grown up in GA (and having ahuge lineage to the Murphy clan), I was never a big fan of "Zig-Zag Zell", but now I'm not so sure if Zell did Zig or Zag - maybe he stayed true to his course and the Democratic world (and the AJC fish wrapper) were the ones moving about the board...
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