This is exactly what started to bother me about CAP years back. It seemed their blog was geared to Progressive Democrats in their writings (I used to get their blog notice in my e-mail to read) and yet there would be actions where it seemed Obama was doing nothing like what they had said to readers on
what his position was or what he
really thought or how he would would
eventually act on an issue they were touting.
They are nothing but a PR Campaign for Obama and his donors....which does not help our Democracy and verifies how "Citizens United" is ruining what's left of our Democracy. John Podesta back in the White House doesn't matter much. The Corporations already seem to own the place. Podesta is just there to make it all seem to come together a little better for the spin for the 2014 Mid-Term elections.
From the article you linked:
But then phone calls from the White House started pouring in, berating my bosses for being critical of Obama on this policy. Obama’s advisor Ben Rhodes — speaking of a staffer who follows policy set by others for his career path — even made a post on the White House blog more or less attacking my chart by fudging the numbers and including both the Iraq and Afghan troop levels in a single chart to make it seem as if the surge never happened (the marvels of things you can do in Excel!).
Soon afterwards all of us ThinkProgress national security bloggers were called into a meeting with CAP senior staff and basically berated for opposing the Afghan war and creating daylight between us and Obama. It confused me a lot because on the one hand, CAP was advertising to donors that it opposed the Afghan war — in our “Progressive Party,” the annual fundraising party we do with both Big Name Progressive Donors and corporate lobbyists (in the same room!) we even advertised that we wanted to end the war in Afghanistan.
But what that meeting with CAP senior staff showed me was that they viewed being closer to Obama and aligning with his policy as more important than demonstrating progressive principle, if that meant breaking with Obama.
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