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are mistaken in their surly and narrow assessment of the tidal wave of public support that brought Obama into office.
Daily Kos, Huffington Post, MoveOn, Campaign for America's Future, Democracy Now, and a dozen other groups that got a lot of us off our behinds to get out the vote were important in terms of a well-recruited ground war. Along with the campaign, and various permutations of the DNC. I worked with several, along with veteran's groups. Grassroots, baby, grassroots.
However, it was Obama's message of change and hope and a constituency hungry for those very things that brought about this victory. Despite that,it wouldn't have had a chance, against the GOP hate-machine without those legions of passionate foot soldiers spreading the word and leaving bread crumbs to the polling places.
Notice the anonymous source was an "aide". I campaigned nationally as a surrogate for Kerry, and what we found was that some aide's carried around a lot of petty resentment that it didn't all seem to be about them. Amateurs. How dare we!
It's a sad Democrat who would gleefully spit in the face of the foot soldiers that brought them victory. Shame.
