This is really hard to describe. I suppose I'm guilty of projecting the Obama supporters I know onto the landscape of Obama supporters in general. But the ones I've seen and heard in the media fit it pretty well.

             I understand that the founders of MoveOn seem to be motivated out of a sense of public duty. But I see them as a kind of Rush Limbaugh of the day. When the "Fairness Doctrine" was allowed to expire, Rush Limbaugh was able to project his thoughts on the air waves without any concern about truth or rebuke. I really believe he thought he was doing this out of a sense of public good too.

             If it hadn't been for the Ned Lamont affair, this might have passed under my personal radar screen unnoticed. But advances in technology have allowed the MoveOn folks to thrive and grow. Now it's their thoughts and values that are being projected onto the American political scene. Many of their values are not my values. They are just too narrowly focused, I think, to encompass the hopes and dreams of the lager American citizenry.

             I don't think the Bill of Rights comes into play here. Apparently the freedom to form collective bargaining groups and hold corporations accountable wasn't protected to any great extent by the "Bill". The rights of public employees to do the same thing was strong enough, however, that the Reagan handlers were either not able to break it, or they figured out ways to use it to their advantage.

             If Barak Obama ends up being the next Michael Dukakis, a number of us are going to assume the latter. That is, the NeoCons used the nonthinking hordes in the Democratic Party to put their man, McCain, back in the Whitehouse.