Letters to the Editor
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@ Taliesan, AJCalhoun
The parody was brilliant. Victim whining IS a game that both can play.
Why didn't Clinton use Donna Bazile instead of Mark Penn as her campaign coordinator? That would have neutralized this whole "dice and slice" strategy while dividing the black vote. Why pick Mark Penn (who hasn't performed well)? Bazile didn't move to the Obama campaign until well after SC? Was this a tactical error?
I also think the race/gender/economic dice and slice is dangerous. I wish both candidates were playing up our commonalities. We all are in trouble if Democrats don't win in November. The conservative Supreme COurt has made it easier for government to take our houses and give them to Big Business at less than market rates in defiance of the Bill of Rights and the constitution. If McCain gets to put 3 more Alito/Roberts "screw the Constitution we have to protect Big Business" appointees, we will lose our guns, our rights, our freedom of speech, the whole shebang.
I talked to a man on Friday. He kept saying it was about "more than economic issues..that's Marxism." I pointed out that Jefferson said debt was slavery and money was freedom. He argued (and this guy is a laid off factory worker returning to school to re-train- bankrupt, no medical, middle aged, the works) that his economic well being was less important than "moral issues and national secuirty". I pointed out that economic elites don't agree, and that their shipping jobs overseas undermined social stability AND national security and made it easier for terrorists to hurt us, undermine us, and cause dissention. He did agree that social stability based on jobs was far more important than abortion or gays, because fighting terror is the "highest good".
This is the argument the candidates have to make. we need the economic and social stability that the Democrats can bring because national secuirty and successful warfighting is based on a stable homefront. It's a Cold War argument that resonates today with the groups that are fearful of the Democrats. They have to see thier economic well being as part of a greater good.
How do we get the candidates to make this argument?