Reply #16: It was not "someone in his transition team" who knocked dkos. It was Obama himself: [View All]

[beachmom]

http://nymag.com/news/politics/21681/index4.html

And so this impulse to reconcile now shows up in politics. In town-hall meetings, when those who opposed the war get shrill, Obama makes a point of noting that while he, too, opposed the war, he’s “not one of those people who cynically believes Bush went in only for the oil.” When I ask about Lieberman’s recent vilification of the left, Obama seems equally vexed: “His most recent comments tying the bomb threat in Great Britain to Iraq was a pretty crude political play.” Obama’s first year in office, he voted for cloture on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court (though not for the nomination itself), earning dozens of angry posts on Daily Kos, a hugely well-trafficked liberal blog. Obama responded with a polite but stern four-page note.

“One good test as to whether folks are doing interesting work is, Can they surprise me?” he tells me. “And increasingly, when I read Daily Kos, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s all just exactly what I would expect.”

This, of course, is bull****. There were a variety of voices that responded to his diary. Some positive, some negative. He chose to only focus on those who gave him a hard time. And dismissed the entire site as clearly a site that does NOT do interesting work. I believe Barack Obama. He doesn't like daily kos. He tolerates it, and uses liberal bloggers when it suits him. I found his above comment quite elitist and misinformed. And, you know I have fought Kossaks tooth and nail for 4 years. Yet my voice and others there have found our voices erased. Hell, I stuck up for the bailout today. But what is the point when politicians paint us all with a broad brush?