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17 August 2008
Dem’s right hand, meet your left hand
I don’t mean this in a right (conservative) vs. left (liberal) kind of way, although that is also a problem for the Democrats. No, this post is all about how, tragically, there is such a lack of unification in the party at a critical time in history.
Greg Sargent reports at TPM:
Dem Party leaders call on Obama to run sharper race on economy
Some leading Dems, worried that the race against McCain looks tougher than they imagined, want Obama to sharpen his economic message and convert his popularity into a stronger sense among voters that he will improve their lives in concrete ways. “It’s fine to tell people about hope and change,” says Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio, “but you have to have plenty of concrete, pragmatic ideas that bring hope and change to life.”
Strickland, like Feingold last week, needs a slap in the face, and if he doesn’t STFU his wrists bound and a gag in the mouth. This race is WAY too close for comfort, Strickland, and you need to watch every frickin’ word that comes out of your mouth for the sake of your party and your country. You sit there and think you know what’s best and run off at the mouth about it…well…you haven’t run an historic campaign for POTUS, you aren’t the first black man to do so, you don’t have an Arabic-sounding name, you didn’t beat the Clinton dynasty, you aren’t going head-to-head with a war hero who is getting a HUGE pass from the MSM on just how much bullshit the whole “Maverick” meme is.
Oh, and you obviously haven’t watched Obama’s last two multi-million dollar ads run during the Olympics, both of which were focused on the economy, including concrete, pragmatic ideas.
This shit really scares me. Without unification in the Dem party this race will be lost and millions and millions of people will suffer because of it. This is NOT hyperbole. The stakes really are that high.
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in the interest of unifying the party, is a roll call vote during the convention on hillary clinton? some lefty talking heads are calling it a coup.