Hillarys Campaign of Subterfuge

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 -

Chris Bowers thinks the Democratic campaigns are blurring their messages intentionally to avoid having to answer tough questions, or at least I think that's the gist of it.

I dug up this quote as a way to expand upon Matt's question from Saturday, where he asked why Clinton seemed to be gaining support within the progressive blogosphere and open left. Matt's instincts are the same as mine, that "all the campaigns are blurring their messaging," and so "if everyone is pretending to be the standard wordprocessor, why not just choose Microsoft Office?" Blurring is very much a problem other candidates are facing right now, and the Mark Penn quote shows that blurring is actually a key component of Clinton's strategy.

Hillary of all people should be losing ground instead of gaining it with progressives, since she steadfastly refuses to admit her vote for the war was wrong. There is precious little integrity in Washington and most of it starts with the inability to admit errors in judgement.

Part of that is the media having turned from news broadcasters into 24/7 entertainment channels, and there just isn't enough news to fill the air 24 hours a day. So they find a nugget and blow it up until it's roughly the size of Ralph Nader's ego, and then play it until people can't stand it anymore.

Politicians aren't afraid of the people (they should be) they are afraid of the media, so they've morphed from honest people who make mistakes to jerks who can't ever admit being wrong.

Let's be absolutely clear: this country got to where it is today because people ran on the GOP side that weren't shaped by this culture, but were born to it and thrive in it. Bush has probably never taken responsibility for anything in his entire life, so this who deal is second nature.

We don't need more of those people, we need less. Hillary strikes me as someone who doesn't want to be that, but is exactly that anyway.

Democrats have the advantage and all they can do between now and 2008 is blow it themselves. Let's not hand this one away by playing typical beltway games with the truth and reality.

Funny how people like taking shots at John Edwards for being wealthy, but not any of the other millionaire candidates (virtually all of them on both sides)
The Politico's Ben Smith is obsessed with John Edwards' hair cut. Maybe Edwards isn't the one you should worry about, Ann.
AmericanThinker writes a cheap hit piece of Edwards using his 2004 campaign staff to create the Center for Promise & Opportunity, the exact same thing Gov. Howard Dean did after his failed presidential bid when he created Democracy for America. Leave it to wingnuts to try to paint creating a center to fight poverty as a bad thing.
Take a look at John Edwards' education policy plan. There are some things more important that war, you know?
Edwards is doing a webcast tomorrow (23rd) to talk about U.S. foreign policy.
I commend the Senator for his plans to protest the illegal Iraq war on Memorial Day, and unlike others, I could think of nothing more apropos. What better way to remember service members of past who have given their lives to protection this nation than to demand we bring home todays service members who are stuck in an unwinnable foreign civil war?
The Senator will be in Alabama campaigning and meeting with state legislators Thursday (23rd.)

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