The Sunday Kos Symposium
Yesterday contributing editors focused their Sunday essays on one question, Why Clinton Lost (and Obama Won) in the first-ever Sunday Kos Symposium in which we all focused on one topic, but came at it from different angles, for a full day. The essays were as follows:
- Hunter opened with (appropriately) Why Clinton Lost, a sweeping overview that ultimately came down to: her campaign did not campaign.
- smintheus weighed in with Change and the Bush Legacy, in which he argued that Clinton was so closely identified with Bush, mostly through her vote for the Iraq war, that a vote against her was the equivalent of a "smite Bush" button.
- MissLaura explored the underutilization of volunteers and people who wanted to be participants in the campaign in She didn't channel supporter passion.
- Devilstower drew attention to the role of Bill--and the unfortunate timing of the role he played--in Too Soon a Bulldog.
- For georgia10, discussed how it all came down to her baggage and the scars from previous battles--the "things she carried"--Why Obama Just May Win Big In November.
- DHinMI claimed error piled upon error for a campaign that was not seeing the contemporary political landscape clearly in She Fought the Last War, With the Wrong Generals, and Not Enough of an Army.
- brownsox took the opportunity to look not so much at where Clinton went wrong as what her opponent did right in The Obama Express.
- Trapper John deconstructed the misogyny and dehumanization that fed into the stereotype of the threatening, ambitious professional woman in The Nutcracker.
Recommended diaries at 8 am, Monday, Jun 09, 2008
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