The Reagan Democrats need an Elitist More Than They Know

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Wednesday April 23, 2008 · 11:22 AM PDT

2008/04/23 · 11:22

Check your hypotheses about PA and the "Reagan" Democrats and about expecting Obama to do better than he did. All the pundits are stating that Obama has to find the way to connect with blue-collar ethnic voters and practically speaking they are right but in a different sense that's just continuing the disastrous downhill course the party and the country has been in since Reagan.

It's quite disingenuous to critique Obama for not doing better with that voting group when the Clinton's cynical and selfish campaign turns on the "permission switch" to energize that group's negative tendencies towards him; i.e. he's an elitist(SF bitter), he's a black radical (Rev. Wright), he's the kind of radical that cost us the Vietnam War (Ayers), don't forget he may be a radical Muslim (last minute Osama ad), and finally Big Dawg's "Obama played the race card on us!"

Arctor

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 11:00 AM PDT

2008/04/09 · 11:00

Want to apply the Coup de Grace to the Clintons and end this fiasco? Why not offer a "No Paid Ex-President Speeches Pledge?" That should be something Obama would cheerily accept and it would serve to bring to the forefront a discussion that is too easily ignored: Why do ex-Presidents get compensated so lucratively for speeches? Isn't this an issue that everyone, including the MSM, is totally ignoring? Let's think about this for a minute.

Arctor

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 5:04 PM PDT

2008/03/13 · 17:04

I'm shocked at John Edwards seeming total withdrawel from the scene. I can't believe he can stand offstage and watch this fiasco of the Clinton's making and not speak out. Is he really so undecided between the two? It seemed during the debates and in the discussions on this blog that the positions of Obama and Edwards and their progressive orientations would make for an easy Obama endorsement, so why the eery silence on his part?

Arctor

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 · 3:45 PM PST

2008/02/12 · 15:45

You know who's really experienced by HRC's standards? Dick Cheney for sure, Dubya? eight years is a lot of time in the job. Those two would surely be ready on Day One, why not just have four more years? Results, judgment, they don't count. Only years on God's Green Earth and particularly trudging the path of experience between the Capitol, the White House and K Street. Why that's the best experience of all!

Arctor

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 11:27 AM PST

2008/01/17 · 11:27

It’s so uplifting to see the master Oxford parser preaching to everyone who will still listen about imaginary distinctions between the Clintons and Obama. For a person who still has trouble with the definition of the word IS it is refreshing to see his surrogates out there criticizing Obama for admitted drug use. Too bad Barack didn’t have the good sense Bill showed when he didn’t Inhale! Talk about a generation gap, at least Barack’s generation seems to have a bit more candor and honesty about themselves than Bill’s does. And before you Boomer Defenders jump on this, congratulations to all us Boomer parents who may have actually taught our kids something about honesty and integrity, now we have a chance to show some too.

Arctor

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Friday January 11, 2008 · 9:52 PM PST

2008/01/11 · 21:52

Did that get your attention? I could have also entitled this diary: Here's A Second Chance To March With Dr. King. For all those who were too young or otherwise unable to participate in the great events of the civil rights era, the chance to experience the struggle first hand is here. Literally here. Even on the pages of this liberal blogsite the scent of racism and countercharges is everywhere in the air. We're barely out of the voting blocks and the ethnic fur is flying. Perhaps we should take a leaf from Karl Rove's Swift Boat Playbook and in this case make a weakness into a strength...flip it!

Arctor

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Wednesday December 19, 2007 · 7:01 PM PST

2007/12/19 · 19:01

As the litany of Bush administration crimes and scandals rolls on like a newscrawl and as they respond with thinly disguised and familiar, if not laughable, defenses such as the well-worn inability to comment on ongoing investigations there is a sense that their wily arrogance and disdain is what protects them from accountability and ultimately impeachment. But that is not truly the case. In reality, they could easily be impeached if the opposition party in power wished to do so. The case is nakedly overwhelming and any impeachment proceeding would develop an even stronger case.

Arctor

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Saturday December 15, 2007 · 3:24 PM PST

2007/12/15 · 15:24

Debate night last week I saw the ghosts of JFK, MLK, and RFK returned to the earth. Drawn of necessity by the terrible mess we've all made or allowed to be made of our country during our lives. Boomers now have a chance to redeem themselves not by electing one of their own but by seeing those ghosts manifest incarnated by the presence of Barack Obama and joining with him in picking up the standards that were dropped on the field of battle and finishing the job their death's left undone.

Arctor

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Friday September 14, 2007 · 1:22 PM PDT

2007/09/14 · 13:22

Who's running the show in the US Congress? The Democrats claim to have won the last election, yet they are no better at controlling the agenda than the enabling doormats of the GOP were. Biden was featured frequently in the past few days on MSNBC, it was discussed in his presence that this week's timing of the Petreaus Repor' was questionable and stage managed by Bush. Who's fault is that if not Biden's, Levin's and by extension, Pelosi and Reid's?

Arctor

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Thursday September 13, 2007 · 8:06 AM PDT

2007/09/13 · 08:06

There is no political future in fighting mad dogs by patient tolerance. The 30 % support for Bush and the war that is being touted in today's polls demonstrates that there continues to be and will continue to be a hardcore base of mad dog conservatives in this country that will not be satisfied until they have destroyed it. Whatever that extreme fringe group's psychological deficiencies are, and the effects of their masters' manipulations, the Democrats continued patient, moderate approach, their attempts at appeasement, is a failed and failing response. Unless the Democrats stand up for the 70 % who now know what a disaster the war and Bush's other policies are by taking a firm and aggressive stance, they are marching themselves and us into eventual defeat and destruction.

Arctor

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Wednesday August 22, 2007 · 9:12 AM PDT

2007/08/22 · 09:12

The Petraeus Report due in September will be the beginning of the endgame for our misadventure in Iraq. No matter with what bluster Bush today begins to lay the groundwork for blaming the Democrats for losing Iraq, the reality-based world will finally impose itself on the "bubble boy" who has once again failed at a pretend job. Unfortunately for the nation, this time Papa Bush can’t simply find a convenient friend to bail his son out and make a discreet departure possible for him.

Arctor

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Monday August 06, 2007 · 4:31 PM PDT

2007/08/06 · 16:31

So our Dems have scurried out of The Beltway to head home ready to meet with their constituents, huh? Well, as another diarist seems to suggest today: good luck finding your rep to talk to. If they're a Democrat, the party we Kossacks are dedicated to elect and keep electing, they should be hard to find, to conceal their shame (if any actually have any?) Doesn't the ridiculous failure of the Democrats in Congress during the session just ended give anyone else here qualms about being taken for granted as part of the Democrats base? I feel completely supportive of all the issues discussed at Daily Kos, but are we really serving those interests when at the end of the day we plan to vote Democrat and they can count on us to be there. How has that advanced our causes in the past, how will it do so now?

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