Letters to the Editor
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Mark Penn
And Hillary Clinton can go to hell. After the endless sleaze of the past few weeks, this Independent Democrat wouldn't vote for her in a million years.
Or for the 10 million dollars she's paid this asshole to run her coronation completely into the ground.
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Rest of headline shoud read : "and Mark Penn can't win primary."
what a loser
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Changing
The Clinton campaign tactics sure have changed my mind! I have gone form the "Probably Voting for Obama" camp to the "Voting for Obama and Hoping Hillary Drops Dead" camp!
I was in the "Vote for Any Democrat in the General and Would Never Vote for McCain" but am now leaning towards "I Would Never Vote for McCain, but I am not Voting For Hillary Either Because She is Just as Bad as a Republican!"
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Can you say, "jump the shark"?
I can
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Future Headline:
Mark Penn Takes Remaining Goodwill Amongst Democrats, Wipes Ass
I know it's a little long for a headline, but work with me here, people...
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Let's Allow This Obama's Pastor Thing To Play Out
This could be huge.
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Alex, man, come ON
This is old news. This is supposed to be a blog that gets updated in almost real time. Instead it seems like we get outrageously long entries, some of which, like this one, are out-of-date.
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The kitchen sink strategy is stalling so
they are defaulting to the bathtub strategy. It's bigger, heavier to throw and if it misses (as this one looks like it will) results in huge collateral damage of closet racism, absurd proclamations, and bizarre reading of the facts. Mark Penn, like Billory have begun to speak very much like the neocons. Just keep saying it enough and hope people will begin to believe it. It worked to get us into an illegal war,a loss of civil rights and a population walking around so scared that pee rings are common. If that's Hillary's way of showing us how she's going to change what we already are rejecting, she's as messed up as her husband's vague defense of his oral sex with "that Intern". Nauseating...
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Obama is right
Obama is right: the fact that he can't win among primary voters says nothing at all about his ability to win among general election voters. As a Black, urban, liberal from a Blue State, he's at a unfavor disadvantage among Democratic primary voters, who are - by definition - more liberal than the general electorate & thus, less likely to support him than their more conservative counterparts in the general. Clearly, a candidate like Obama will do better among voters who are more rural, more white, more conservative & less loyal to the Democratic Party than Democratic primary voters.
Clinton supporters just have to get used to the fact that we haven't been winning states like Idaho, Nebraska & Utah because our candidates have been too white, too rural, too conservative & too likely to hail from Red States.
Let me illustrate my point with the examples mentioned above.
As anyone with even a passing familiarity with Idaho's politics can attest, people there never vote for white people, especially conservative white people. Finally, we're offering them a candidate who looks like them & who shares their eccentrically liberal beliefs. [You may not realize, for example, that Idaho is the only state in the Union that has never elected a white man to statewide office. Also, their legislature is famous for being almost entirely female; in fact, they didn't install a men's room in the state capitol until last year, and it's really only for visitors.]
Likewise, Nebraskans - 60% of whom live in cities larger than 500,000 & 23% of whom are descendants of slaves set free during Sherman's March on Atlanta - will rally to the Democratic banner as soon as we nominate someone sufficiently liberal to appeal to their notoriously radical liberal beliefs. You may not realize that Nebraska law does not recognize private property and that all farms there are communes operating on 99 year leases from the state, which holds legal title to all of Nebraska's land. Although I do not personally approve of Nebraskans' odd beliefs, I'm glad that we're finally appealing to them.
Finally, Utah's famously "gay" lifestyle should fit nicely with Obama's strong pro-gay rights stand. Salt Lake - the gay family's San Fran - has large numbers of gay families who will rally to Obama's call to repeal DOMA. Utah's notoriously progressive legislature has the highest percentage of openly gay legislators of any legislative body on earth (Khazkistan is 2nd), and Utah is the only state that makes discriminating against gays in employment a felony. All in all, I'd say Obama makes Utah a "safely Democratic" state.
More generally, I think Obama's wins in Red State caucuses demonstrates that he's our best chance to carry those states in the Fall. I'd feel more confident about my prediction that he'll sweep all 50 states if I weren't so worried about Rhode Island, which has been trending Republican for years. Granted, he lost the primary there, but there are less favorable signs & I think we'd have to keep Rhode Island as a tossup.
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Penn is Shrumptastic
Penn, who has mapped out Hillary's invincibility campaign, who has been expert at making sure that Hillary was the inevitable candidate that no Democrat would dare challenge and who, when the going got rough, tried to blame everyone but himself for a campaign of misteps, misunderstanding, sleaze and incompetence, now pronounces on the general election.
CLinton supporters: what is this guy still doing with your gal's campaign? He's not just been wrong, he's been dangerously wrong. What does it say about Hillary that he's still there -- remember, his strategy was to have it wrapped up after Super Tuesday.
He is there because he is the ultimate insider and the fact that he can keep his job even though he's been so off base and flat out wrong, says very bad things about Hillary and her "experience" as well as management skill (its funny too, because the Clinton's are so quick, usually, to throw old friends under the bus who cause them trouble or embarassment).
I'll vote for Hillary if I have to in the fall, but Penn is one reason to make me doubt that she can manage her own campaign, little less the country.
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Ah, Desperation . . .
Thy name is, increasingly, Hillary.