That message being that this strategy is either on track, or it's on-track enough that the usual sense of inevitability needs be to created, I would say. Sort of an anti-Lincoln 1860 strategy, for those who remember Kos when it was a community.
I guess I should applaud the 50 -- well, 48 state -- strategy, and that Democrats are competitive now in many more states than they used to be.
I just didn't think that the sacrificial victims of the process would be the Democrats who held it together through darker times.
Or that the way the Democrats would become competitive was by making 2006 the high-water mark for progressivism, and by giving much, much more power to the Blue Dogs in 2008 and onward, which is -- if only I'd bee smart enough to call my shot -- is the inevitable outcome of the 50-state strategy.
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Also note the date
The 45th anniversary of King's "I Have A Dream" speech.
All of this is scary as fuck.
I think we should be afraid.
UPDATE:
Whoa...
what's with that hyperlink lambert? something automagically linkified that.
Sorry about that, willy....
That's the Bible citations linker, thinking you're about to quote Thessalonians.
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ah...
Thessalonians...
Revelation if anything.
this is all at the same time that the campaign
is yelling about the millions wasted on the Convention--yet now they're renting out a whole extra ("Mile-High" ?!?) stadium instead of using the already-rented and paid-for Pepsi center.
-- NYT-- Delays and Rising Costs for Convention Raise Worries for Democrats
two points:
dukaukis was up in all the polls, at the similar point in his campaign. we all know how that turned out.
but
getting down to the sad but true level of 'what really motivates most voters,' i say, "it's the gas prices, stupid." i don't have a link for it just now, but people are frequently telling me that when energy concerns are great, the voters almost always choose the party not in power.
truly, the only poll that matters is in the fall and i'm mostly ignoring them until then. iirc, bowers and others have been wrong, dead wrong, in some of their predictions in the past. there are long months ahead, and most americans are basking in the peace that follows the end of the primary season. as Xan said some time ago, obama could do himself a big favor and just not say, call, or mail anything to anyone until around october. americans are quite sick of the Village bullshit at this point, in the face of such real and pressing concerns as the housing market implosion, jittery markets, poor employment front, and skyrocketing food, energy and health care costs. and of course, endless war and occupation that is draining our treasury dry.
this year is different
the situation in 1988 was not nearly so bad. The S&L crisis had not yet materialized, the Democrats had failed to press their case on IranContra, and the situation was far more favorable to Republican lies.
this year the economic hardship is far greater. And we haven't even gotten into hurricane season.
Speaking of economic hardship
...How is this extravaganza gonna play to those experiencing hard times? This is going to cost more a whole lot more and look very rich. Is Obama risking painting democrats as fat cats? John McCain is so low-key it would be an easy contrast for the GOP to make i.e. bluster/wealth/arrogance vs. down to earth/ regular joe/humble and they've been working the arrogance tag on Obama for a while.
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
Obama wants to give his speech at Mile High Stadium
because it will be easier to ascend to Heaven from there.
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“I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
obama
can display his arrogance any way he wishes, but he still won't get my vote. Barry, for someone supposed to be smart, you don't get it and apparently never will.
And Here I Thought It Was To Join the Mile-High Club
Insert joke about fucking over half the party, MI&FL, etc., here.
myq
that was funny as hell.
glad you're back.
we've been missing humor as humor.
as opposed to, say,
the many vestments of sarcasm that have passed as humor here recently - aka the atrios style of "humor".
dry,
neither shaken nor stirred.
borrrrriinggg!!
and inarticulate!
there's no reason to focus on obama
nor any reason to take what he does personally. if you happened to share a meal with him, you'd probably enjoy his company.
what's happening in the democratic party is not about the designated front man, senator obama.
it's about the democratic party in toto.
it's about change in that organization.
david axelrod and howard dean,
leaders of the obama campaign and the "new" democratic party, respectively, are the guys to hold accountable.
along with those congressional democratic leaders who were happy to pitch in and help david and howard derail the clinton campaign in order to create this brave new world aborning.