you'll remember a while back that Markos made a bit of a splash by annoucing that he had decided to hold off maxing out to Obama in response to FISA.  i love Markos (he & Barack got me in the game!) but i was one who came out pretty vocally and strongly against his choice.  among other things, given the reach and power of his pulpit (and the fact that the story was then picked up by other media pushing the "base turns on Obama" meme), i angrily noted that his claim that he (paraphrasing) "wasn't telling other people they should do the same", was at best, incredibly naive and at worse, pretty disingenuous.

cut to today, when i was about to order my copy of the book, when i suddenly realized: honestly, i don't feel that excited about supporting Markos financially until he's willing to fully (and publically) support Obama financially as he had initially planned, before he threw what i frankly see as a dangerously short-sighted temper tantrum. i've looked, but i haven't found any posts saying he's changed his mind. that doesn't mean i haven't just missed it, so if so, hooray for Kos and this is all moot.

if not, my question is, is this inclination on my part, for lack of a better word, gross? or am i just "taking on the system" as Markos suggests?!

i'd really love your perspective; i don't want to inadvertently (or pointlessly) just be an asshat, but i really felt strongly about the choice Markos made, and so maybe this could be my small way of expressing dissent. (though of course since i read The Field, i know not to expect my 'pressure' to work any better on 'Kos' than his did on Obama, but still...)

thanks, Al!