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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I agree that Democrats have been perceived as "elitist" but the reason that is so is because the Republicans have been adept at framing and defining the Democratic candidates. Couple this with a willing, lazy, stenographer pool of reporters who read Drudge, or daily faxes from the RNC to see what "issues" they will report on and then march out to fulfill their "duty" to their puppet-masters. All the ballyhoo about Obama's comment is being continuously remanufactured and kept alive by the traditional media by millionaire pundits and columnists who know nothing about small town Americans, poor folks or swing states. They only know what they "think" and their fantasies are usually totally divorced from reality. Their job is to investigate, to analyze, to think critically, based upon irrefutable facts; what used to be fondly referred to as "truth!" To these slothful blowhards, "truth" is nothing more than a "he-said, she-said" and their job is simply to promote the fight ... for ratings, for money, for personal egos... but never, it seems, for truth.
It always mystifies me when people equate losing to the entrenched democratic machine in democratic states with having anything at all to do with what happens in the general election. Of course the democratic nominee is going to win those states, whoever it is. If Clinton was a good candidate it should have never even been close. I guess people who are grasping at straws have to ignore reality.
It always mystifies me when people equate losing to the entrenched democratic machine in democratic states with having anything at all to do with what happens in the general election
Well, Virginia, leaving aside the way the Obamaites have alienated Mrs. Clintons supporters, I think you can safely assume NY is gone. Given how much hispanics don't go for Obama (lost them by over 75% in California and higher in New Jersey), and given how McCain was NOT among the Republicans who went on anti-immigration rants, I think you can safely assume hispanic support for Mrs. Clinton will go to McCain, not Obama. There goes the southwest, you know Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona where McCain comes from.
Considering we lost Iowa and almost Minnesota and Wisconsin with an experienced statesmen, decorated war hero and comparative centrist of John Kerry, I'm guessing that an inexperienced black liberal with a LOT of social baggage ain't gonna win them over there.
Given that working class women and the elderly and Catholics overwhelmingly support Mrs. Clinton and dislike Obama, you can safely assume that Florida and Mass. and Penn are gone to him as neither of these states has a heavy enough black population to even make a dent back.
End of the day: Obama takes Vermont and Illinois - and those are the only states I'd give him comfortably.
I know these facts are inconvenient, and go on now, impress me with vulgar slurs and infantile distortions of Mrs. Clinton's name and record.
Won't change anything though.
Considering we lost Iowa and almost Minnesota and Wisconsin with an experienced statesmen, decorated war hero and comparative centrist of John Kerry, I'm guessing that an inexperienced black liberal with a LOT of social baggage ain't gonna win them over there.
They want to close their eyes and "hope" this fact out of existence.
That's the kind of hope Barry Bamboozler peddles. Astounding anyone buys it.
1. the truly illogical and incomprehensible democratic
caucus voting system will not be used (hillary wins
the popular vote in texas and nevada but obama gets
more caucus votes?)
2. omitting florida and michigan (despite obama's wish
to ignore them their votes will not be ignored in
november......latest poll from rasmussen reports
telephone survey in florida shows mccain attracting
53% of the vote while obama earns 38%, If mccain is
matched against hillary clinton, the race is a
toss-up—clinton 45% mccain 44%.).
3. obama's nearly 90% support from the african
american community means alot in the democratic
primary because they make up 20.1% of voters however
it will mean much less in the national election when
african american voters make up less than half that amount.
4. obama's relationship with rev. "god damn america" wright and his recent "bitter"
comments may not bother the democrats who support him but they will certainly
have an effect on independents and republicans.
5. the incredible anti clinton bias of the media won't be there to help
Thank you for enlarging upon the point I was trying to make in a recent letter in another thread (the one following Michael Lind's pedantic-yet-mincing, monkey-with-a-parasol attempt to explain to us what the expendable are feeling). My son lives in rural Pennsylvania. A rock musician who's been a legend in the DC area for 20 years, he's kept his blue-collar day job and, like many of his neighbors, he feels extremely cynical about his choices and about politics in general, which has been reflected in his doom metal musical works. It required a huge effort on the part of his younger sister and me to persuade him it was worth the trouble to just go out and vote this time because it could actually make a difference. The area is just that way and has been for years. Madden has provided a valuable view into the true heart of a region which has largely given up. Getting them to just get up and vote will be the real problem, so there is a huge sector up for grabs, and Obama has, with his recent "gaffe", actually connected with a number of them, as personified in Madden's interviewee Shawn Erfman. And Erfman's right, of course, and highly quotable, because "it" is "fucking true." It could have been my son talking.
Meanwhile Ms. Clinton debases and truly condescends to these same people by pretending to have something -- anything -- in common with them. Good luck with that.
How did this article get past the Salon editorial assasssin's bureau? Well done, Mister Mike! You nailed this one to a post!
Not that McCain doesn't have a grasp of the issues, but McCain would be so hamstrung by the sheer absurdity of the Bush positions he is supporting (despite his attempts at stylistic distinction)that it just might make some voters take a second look.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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