Mr. Feingold “Mr. True Alternative”: Stop Lecturing
The President!  I am fucking tired of this righteous, election
losing types of progressives telling me we have to be principled
when the cards are stacked up against us.  In a phone interview
with huffingtonpost, Feingold said:  I think people will see it
as phony that Democrats start playing by Republican rules.
People will see us as weak and not being a true alternative and
just being the same as the other guy. And as I have said before,
to me this is dancing with the devil.  “The president is wrong
to have embraced the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens
United and that’s what you’re doing when you start using and
consorting with super PACs. They can raise unlimited amounts of
money from wealthy individuals and corporations and often they
can do it in total secrecy.  …I am a supporter of the president.
I will continue to support the president. But on this one I
couldn’t disagree more.”  Read more…  Rant to follow below the
fold…  Some people just don’t