Yes, we are almost done with our "full tilt boogie", since being at Yearly Kos this weekend. And the diarists and posters are typing away about the Clinton, hub-bub. And most of us have made our points. But now, a "memo fight"? Boogie with me over the "hump"...
I am doing my catching up here and run across this lil ditty, Obama camp reassures supporters. Well, I trekked over to my email, nothing there, and I have not hit all my political sites, so I start to.
I come across First Read, and the Clinton/Obama battle over polls. WTF? Was an instant thought, then I opened and read.
Less than an hour after the Clinton campaign issued its memo, the Obama camp released its own, which argued that the national polls don't matter. From campaign manager David Plouffe: "[A]s the Washington insiders focus on irrelevant and wildly inconsistent national polls, there are strong signs in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina of the growing power and potential of [Obama's] candidacy."
OK, the Obama Camp is waking up here, not on sleep mode, and RESPONDING, GOOD. Then I read this...
More: "This is a sequential process that begins in Iowa and carries through the calendar. If national polls were affecting our ability to grow the campaign, perhaps we would pay them some attention. But they have not, so we don’t."
There's also this zinger: "The month of July has fleshed out the true dynamic of this race – change versus more of the same. We saw this in the dispute with Senator Clinton over diplomacy with Barack arguing for turning the page on the policies of Bush-Cheney and in the YearlyKos Debate when Barack disagreed with Senator Clinton about the role of Washington lobbyists in blocking real progress. Barack believes we need a fundamental transformation of our politics, which is why as President he will rein in the power and influence of lobbyists. He doesn’t agree that they represent 'real people.'"
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Not only is the Obama Campaign on a "full tilt boogie", they are going "down to the ground". This whole "lobbyist" thing does strike a cord with people. We sat and watched Jack Abramhoff put congressmen in PRISON, loose seats, admit they STOLE, these congressmen "compromised by a lobbyist". So, if you believe this does not matter, it does.
Is politics, "warm and fuzzy" or "crystal clean"? Hell to the NAW. And that is why, it is up to us, Americans, to hold these politicians feet to the fire and make them CLEAN THIS UP.
There was much conversation on the boards about various lobbyists groups. And yes, some are not corrupt and do represent americans and try to inject their point of view. I understand that. But look at the premise that was unfolded. The word lobbyist in the same sentence with "representing americans". Maybe, twenty-five years ago, it would mean nothing, a literal snooze. But this is not twenty-five years ago, it is today, and it is the politicians and corporations that have soiled the word "lobbyist".
So, if you want to know what was one of the top three concerns in exit polling of Americans for the 2006 elections, "corruption". Yes, it was. We, Americans got it, but it was Washington that was "asleep at the wheel".