Legal Commentary

Rooting For The Home Team

By Big Tent Democrat

Glenn Greenwald writes:

A rational citizen, by definition, praises and supports political leaders only when they do the right thing (regardless of motive), and criticizes and opposes them when they don’t. It's just that simple. Cheerleading for someone because they're on "your team" is appropriate for a sporting event, not for political matters. Political leaders deserve support only to the extent that their actions, on a case-by-case basis, merit that support, and that has largely been the behavior of progressives towards Obama.

(Emphasis supplied.) In that vein, I will be cheerleading for the Florida Gators tonight in their game against Penn State in the NIT. Sure, it's not the Big Dance, but the Gators are still my team. In an unrelated note, Howard Dean writes a dkos diary. Dean was truly an important transformational figure in the Democratic Party. I wish him good luck in his future endeavors.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).