DNC Assimilated by the Oborg

Thursday’s Washington Post stated that the hopium-infused platform of the DNC was the final frontier of assimilation of the DNC by the Oborg.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/07/by_jonathan_weisman_barack_oba_1.html

Democrats Release Platform

By Jonathan Weisman

Barack Obama’s takeover of the Democratic Party is nearly complete.

A draft of the Democratic National Committee’s 2008 platform was sent
this morning to platform committee members, and aside from some nods
to the losers, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards, the 54-page
document reads like a compilation of Sen. Obama’s stump speeches.
There is a section on fatherhood, a definition of patriotism (not
only to declare our love of this nation, but to show it), a section
detailing Obama’s newly rejiggered economic stimulus plan, a call for
more service, through an expanded AmeriCorps and Peace Corps, and a
whole lot of hope.

“It is time for a change,” declares the draft’s preamble.

I don’t know how you feel, but I’m not sure I need the democratic party to define parenthood or patriotism for me.  I look to the DNC platform to define programs and governance approaches.  Senator FeelGood’s patronizing lectures to Americans have now been infused into the platform.  There is also the pander section for Edwards and Clinton backers.

For Edwards, who has bigger issues to deal with at the moment, the DNC makes good on Obama’s pledge to him to elevate poverty eradication as a policy goal. “Working together,” the platform states, “we can cut poverty in half within ten years.”

And Clinton is the star of the platform’s section on expanded opportunities for women.

“”We have produced [the] first woman Secretary of State, the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, and, in 2008, [with] Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first woman in American history to win presidential primaries in out nation,” the platform states.

Again,  I feel patronized.  After the nasty campaign tricks used on Senator Clinton, the appalling performance of Speaker Pelosi, and then a nod to Clinton-ally Secretary Albright, I’m not sure how to re-act positively to this.  It appears to be a second hand compliment rather than a true statement of support for women in high places. There are strong statements supporting women’s reproductive rights as well as statements against government encroachments on privacy and constitutional rights.  These too, sound hollow after recent actions and statements by Senator Obama.  Afterall, he just voted to protect those telecoms that helped President Bush spy on American citizens and also mentioned that he thinks women tend to get THIRD term abortions because they feel blue.

Some one needs to step in and save the democratic party from itself.  Unfortunately, I think that could have been Bill Clinton but with this Stalinesque purge, it’s unlikely the hopium-addicted will come out of the fog before the fall election.  By then, they’ll be screaming every one’s a racist as we transition from President Bush to President McCain.