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Jen the Michigander


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102203592.html

From D.K. Jamaal...

The Democratic Party currently faces an embarrassing electoral beat down just two years after greeting the election of President Barack Obama with pure euphoria.

How and why did this happen?

It happened because the Democrats made a colossal mistake in 2008 selecting Barak Obama as their standard bearer over the more centrist, more qualified, more competent, and more experienced Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Hillary warned over and over again that the egotistical man child Obama was not ready for prime time, and he has proven to be every bit as vain, naïve, and amateurish as advertised.

He is now the most divisive figure in American politics save perhaps Sarah Palin. Meanwhile, Hillary tops the political popularity polls.

Hillary hit the nail on the head when she advised doe eyed Obamacrats that recalcitrant Republican special interests would make mince meat of their hero. She has the scars of thirty years of battle with the vast right-wing conspiracy and would not have wasted precious time, as Obama did, wishin’ and hopin’ for an end to conservative intransigence.

She also would not have alienated her party from independents and the working class, as Obama has done. But leftist pundits, bloggers, and voters always hated Clintonian centrism and were ambivalent to blue collar Truman Democrats. With Obama, they turned towards a situation comedy coalition of urban minorities and affluent elitist white.

That flaky coalition is about to be swamped by older voters, independents, moderates, and disgruntled working class Democrats joining with tea party Republicans to oust from powers the party that ignored their vote in 2008.

The Obama party has made many mistakes in the past two years, but none quite as consequential as falling for Obama’s hype instead of sticking with the sober pragmatism of Clinton.

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This is spot-on.  But more important to me is how women have fallen for both parties' clap-trap.

Republicans had total control in 2004...did they overturn Roe v Wade?

Dems have had total control since 2008...have they overturned DADT or legislated gay marriage?

No to both because these are their "Kaching" issues...their money issues.  If either is resolved, down go the donations to the parties.

But more important, these are issues where they can divide the majority of the voters...WOMEN...each election....and we are suckers for this every damn time.

The media has proven to be the only "equal" operative...they went after Hillary with the same fervor as they did Palin....the male-driven media.

Shame on us, the majority, for allowing this to happen.

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Jen, The link took me to the other article..

Great read there. Jamal sure nails it.  Will the Dems realize that's where they went wrong?  I wonder.

Every day as bad news hits us, I wonder what it would have been like if we had Hillary instead.

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Jamaal always nails it-- he's a PUMA!

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