The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good

While I’m bashing fringe candidates, lemme take this opportunity to reply to Salon’s “Stop lying to yourself. You love Dennis Kucinich” by saying “No, I really don’t.” It’s not just because I personally think he’s obnoxious. Hiding in the middle of the article is a single sentence that perfectly explains why he shouldn’t be president :

“He has never passed a piece of legislation”

Life isn’t like those little political X-Y graphs that are all over the internet. The President needs to actually work with people with whom he/she disagrees and try to reach compromises. I think it’s great the Dennis Kucinich supports single-payer universal healthcare, but he’s never demonstrated that he can actually accomplish that task.


posted by greg on November 5, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

6 comments »

  1. When the institutional body in question is in continuing complicity with what former Supreme Court Chief Justice aptly defined as the supreme international crime, I find it difficult to call that “the good.” I also do not find Kucinich “the perfect.”

    I am willing to believe that “the good” is the enemy of “the evil” (naked imperialism).

    Myself, I don’t particularly like Kucinich because I think he serves to recapture enemies of imperialism that would perhaps otherwise escape the clutches of the Democratic Party.

    But hey, if the Imperial Democrats are your definition of “the good,” than I could see why you would think that any anti-imperialist sentiment would be the utopian “perfect,” and therefore the “enemy.”

    Comment by Rojo — November 6, 2007 @ 12:23 am

  2. While were at it, we should heap some posthumous calumny on Eugene Debs too. That piece of shit never understood that the perfect was the enemy of the good (plutocrats and imperialists) either. The nerve of him, using a presidential campaign as a political soapbox!

    Comment by Rojo — November 6, 2007 @ 12:27 am

  3. That’s lovely, Rojo. So only 30 more years of Republicanism whilst you and your greenie pals bong hit your way to REVOLUTION!!!

    Comment by me — November 6, 2007 @ 5:27 am

  4. I don’t particularly like Kucinich because I think he serves to recapture enemies of imperialism that would perhaps otherwise escape the clutches of the Democratic Party.

    Thanks for summarizing so perfectly Kucinich’s function within the Democratic Party. You’d think they would be grateful to him for performing this useful service, but they’re not.

    I gave up on Kucinich after he endorsed Kerry in ’04. It was then that I understood how he was being used (or alllowing himself to be used) to rope people like me into a Party we no longer belonged in.

    Now, my preferred loser candidate is Ron Paul (in the Republican primary), followed by Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party candidate, in the general election.

    Comment by SteveB — November 7, 2007 @ 9:47 pm

  5. RoPey? Why? Do you belong to Stormfront?
    http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/10/real-ron-paul-surfaces.html
    Or are you just generally concerned about the metal strips in paper money?

    I don’t need to tell you that our American way of life is under attack. We see it all around us — every day — and it is up to us to save it.

    The world’s elites are busy forming a North American Union. If they are successful, as they were in forming the European Union, the good ‘ol USA will only be a memory. We can’t let that happen.

    The UN also wants to confiscate our firearms and impose a global tax. The UN elites want to control the world’s oceans with the Law of the Sea Treaty. And they want to use our military to police the world.

    Comment by me — November 8, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

  6. Its sad to hear that there is only room for two parties, and within those two parties only room for the bought and sold. It makes me wonder why some people tremble in fear when some “fringe” candidate utters a word not sactioned by those tired old hustlers hawking more tried and failed snake oil.
    The label of “fringe” seems to be determined by polls,media,and the old guard within each party,then the hacks are told to fall in line. One could refer to these “fringe” candidates as underdogs,but that term does not lend itself to instant rejection,after all an underdog might come from behind ,but a “fringe” candidate is just crazy,no chance to win,no need to even hear from them,just call them names and move on,try and make your name calling funny because that is true political debate,the kind which has produced the current state of the nation.The self appointed bullies can never debate the underdogs,they would must yell at them with the appointed label,fingers firmly planted in thier tiny ears.Political debate not only determines our leaders it should be the voice of the people,all the people,so if the underdog candidates are the biggest puppies you have to kick i feel rather sorry for you.

    Comment by pogo — November 28, 2007 @ 8:39 am

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