I have been waiting for an previously undiaried, worthy, and substantial topic on which to launch my inaugural diary attempt. This is not that topic.
But this made me laugh pretty hard... and then it pissed me off. So since I haven't seen it yet shared, I offer up my meager contribution with bated breath to my new community.
Follow me after the jump, won't you?
So as I've said previously, I check out HRC's site a few times a week, most for shits and giggles, but mainly to, as I said to a friend and cracked him up, "Make sure I know what that Betch is up to!" (Save your cards and letters, folks: my friends and I often use the word "betch" as a pronoun or proper noun, with no insult or misogyny implied or intended. For example, I have said of Michelle Obama, whom I desperately want to be, "Gods-DAMN, that's a smart, hot Betch!" That's why we spell it with an "e", just to take it down a notch.)
Anyway, today I saw something I've never seen before:
The Republican Attack Playbook: Who Said This?
Now I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say that each of the quiz's 14 questions have the same answer: Barack Obama!
Now let's put aside for a moment the laughable notion that Barack's campaign has been the one rocking it Rove-style. (A notion so laughable that even the MSM and 2/3rds of PA Democrats disagree!)
What is the purpose of such a pointless exercise? Much like the push polls their campaign has been conducting (hell, much like all their recent arguments about electability and meta-moveable-metrics), you have to wonder: who is their intended audience and what the hell are they thinking?
Well, in this instance, the intended audience is clearly the hardest of the hardcore HRC supporters. So I ask again, what is the purpose?
Since all the questions are essentially rhetorical, there really can only be one purpose: to further inflame her supporters against the presumptive nominee, since it will not in fact be her. And people wonder why 49% of her supporters are threatening to defect in the General!
In a more superficial way, this ridiculous quiz seems emblematic of much that has been wrong with the Clinton campaign. Perhaps the time and energy that went into creating this snarky and entirely meaningless quiz could have been better spent by the Clinton Camp:
Making sure a game plan was in place for after Feb. 5th;
Campaigning in states that voted after Feb. 5th but before TX & OH;
Paying the campaign's bills;
Paying closer attention to the campaign's Bill;
But most of all, this seemingly innocuous little piece of peppermint petty made me wish most of all that the Clinton campaign has spent their time doing this:
Remembering that they are Democrats..... and acting like it.