MoveOn/Daily Kos Dot Orgs: Sorry? For What?

I had to know why some Americans could be so out of love with their country that they'd join ideological forces with persons who are killing their fellow citizens. Looking on Wikipedia, here's what I found out.

One's A Old Fashioned Peacenik
MoveOn.Org was started by a newly rich Berkeley couple in response to the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Impressed with the savvy of mid 30s Eli Pariser, another blogger/peace activist from Simon's Rock College in Maine, they made him the big cheese in charge of character assassinations.

I've heard MOO has probably been the biggest influence in centralizing the Progressive Leftist movement in that it has seemed to bring the Dems perceptively to the center ideologically--and theoretically. (I dont' believe that, by the way.) More center-leaning candidates are having their chops busted but still hold fast to these crazies. The George Soros-funded website has Hillary and the rest of the Dem candidates on their knees (not unlike Lewinsky, when you think about it). It remains to be seen if the demands of Progressive realpolitik survives the demands of the U.S. Constitution and the American people. But, first, they have to get elected, which they will not.

The Other's Too Young To Know Anything
Daily Kos (short for Cossack--am I the only one in the room bothered by that?) is put together by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. This moribund-looking fellow reminds me of the little Corporal, Adolf Hitler in his younger years, but instead of Brown Shirts he's got fellow nerds and big Leftist money behind him. Kos is 32ish and has only one year's worth of consulting experience with Howard Dean's presidential campaign. Now there's an endorsement.

He ran away from life and started his blog a couple or three years ago after his failure in the high tech industry (which he says he took personally). Zuniga's disppointment in how Dean's campaign turned out, and his complete and total business failure closely afterward must have been too much for the little guy; the pressure drove him to become a rebel. Those four or five rough nights in the dark expanses of Silicon Valley's software's hell holes had to be brutal.

Maybe if Zuniga had given life a few more years, he wouldn't be so bitter.

He lives in Berkeley (No kidding!) and is married. There's really little to know about him because he's so young, except he is quoted in Wikipedia as saying, "I'm an a--hole and it's okay with me...." He was born in Chicago, his parents Greek and Salvadoran. He went to Salvador when he was a little kid and when it was dangerous, got out when the US came to Salvador's aid against the Leftists (some things never change). Never one to show much gratitude, he then returned to the US for good. Guess that's where the a--hole thing comes from.

He states that because he spent time as a child in a war zone he naturally knows what we should do about war. Meanwhile it's important to remember, as you consider this man's rich portfolio, that Mr. Zuniga enlisted in the military during the Gulf War when he was 16. He then dropped out of the whole thing to help with Howard Dean's campaign. Che Guevara, he ain't.

So this 32-year old prophet claims to have been a G.H.W. Bush Republican who has switched because of his hatred for George W., the war crimes, WMDs, ad nauseum. Moreover, Kos The Magnificent has declared he is not a journalist, but an activist.

Or was that the other guy over at MOO? It's not important really. No one will remember them after next year's election.

Thanks for the read.