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[classicman]

Will MoveOn live up to its name?

After more than a decade spent railing against the Republican machine, MoveOn wants to move on —even if it means leaving some of its high-minded ideals behind.

Last week, the group’s members chose their top four priorities for the organization, winnowed down from a top-10 list culled from 50,000 suggestions. The decisions they weighed would determine in large part whether the group would become a friend or foe of the Obama administration, a player or a gadfly in progressive politics, a piece of the Democratic machine or a thorn in the party’s side.

What they chose: universal health care; economic recovery and job creation; building a green economy; stopping climate change; and end the war in Iraq.

What they didn’t: holding the Bush administration accountable; fighting for gay rights and LGBT equality; and reforming campaigns and elections.

MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser says that this happy alignment with Barack Obama’s agenda — and fortuitous absence of conflict with same — comes in part because “the people he’s listening to and the people we’re listening to are the same people.”

Isn't that special. Lets all hug...

[xoxoxoBruce]

They won't be happy when the economic realities, international politics, and world affairs cause Obama and Congress to make less progress than MoveOn wants to see on those four issues.

Obama is not a magic man that can cure all this nations ills with a wave of the wand... not even in 4 or even 8 years. What I do expect, nay, demand from him, an honest attempt to steer this nation toward achieving those goals.