Letters to the Editor
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Politics as unusual
This bit from Penn stood out at me...
And Hillary's core voters -- working class, women, Latinos, Catholics -- are exactly the voters that comprise the key swing voters the party has needed in the past to win.
Since when are working class, women, Latinos, and Catholics swing votes for the Democrats? Seems like Penn's spinning the true-blue core into something it's not, trying to spin momentum out of something that's stationary. Clinton's doing best with people who would vote Democratic, anyway, but if Penn wants to call them "swing voters," he can, if it's a saccharine substitute for momentum.
Even though Penn and his PR guys are going to throw every dirty trick they've got at Obama, I think the "politics as unusual" approach to Obama's run, and Obama's character as a candidate, will let him deftly resist this latest PR assault from the Clinton team -- for all of Penn's efforts to spin Obama as Gore or Kerry, for anybody who remembers, Clinton's campaign more closely resembles the lackluster, cautious, corporate, losing candidacies of Gore and Kerry than Obama's, which has proven to be exciting, inspiring, and dynamic, even though those are apparently dirty words these days.