To criticise another diary is never easy. It is almost impossible when you are a lesser known member of the Dkos community and the diarist has a passionate and admiring following. Yet it would be dishonest if I did not express the strength of my feelings. Feelings as a European.
I was appalled and angered yesterday by the diary that took the words of one of the Democratic candidates and juxtaposed them with neocon language to discredit that person.
It would be interesting to do something similar to the statements made by Sarkozy and Royal in the run up to the final poll in France in a few days time. To do so would be just a game, an exercise as intellectually dishonest as that played on Barack Obama.
I am not writing, however, in defence of Barack Obama here. To me, he is one of an excellent field of Democratic candidates and I would not want any of them to be attacked in this way. In any case, this defence was done admirably by others – and not just by those who support him. I am writing here as a European in defence of the America people, because it was they who were also being attacked by the diary, even if the diarist did not understand that this occurred because of the second language problem.
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