I wrote about a familiar topic in yesterday's column. Here we go...
There's a "cold" civil war among progressives that's always existed, but it's been rapidly heating up since the earliest days of the 2008 campaign. The most visible front of this feud is taking place between prominent bloggers, on Twitter and, well, right here on The Daily Banter.
I've written about this topic extensively over the years, and on more than one occasion I've been caught up in the middle of it all. First, during the 2008 campaign, I endorsed President Obama quite early in the process and subsequently engaged in the contentious primary battle between Obama supporters and Clinton supporters. It baffled me how progressives could support Hillary Clinton given some of her tactics (a bit of fear-mongering and the like), her moderate third-way DLC politics and well as her early support for the Iraq War. And I made my opinions about her abundantly clear. If you'd like a solid retelling of the progressives in-fighting during the primaries, check out Eric Boehlert's wonderful Bloggers On The Bus. Continued here...