Cultural Shift: Out with Bubbas, up with Creatives: There should be a major cultural shift in the party, where the southern Dems and Liebercrat elite will be largely replaced by rising creative class types. Obama has all the markers of a creative class background, from his community organizing, to his Unitarianism, to being an academic, to living in Hyde Park to shopping at Whole Foods and drinking PBR. These will be the type of people running the Democratic Party now, and it will be a big cultural shift from the white working class focus of earlier decades. Given the demographics of the blogosphere, in all likelihood, this is a socioeconomic and cultural demographic into which you fit. Culturally, the Democratic Party will feel pretty normal to netroots types. It will consistently send out cultural signals designed to appeal primarily to the creative class instead of rich donors and the white working class.

Yep, throwing the working class overboard.  What a great campaign strategy.  

I'm also told, though I can't confirm, that Obama campaign has also subtly encouraged donors to not fund groups like VoteVets and Progressive Media.  These groups fall under the 'same old Washington politics' which he wants to avoid, a partisan gunslinging contest he explicitly advocates against.  

With the caveat that Matt is acknowledging he can't confirm it, holy F, can you believe Obama would tell anyone not to give to VOTEVETS?  This is our secret plan to end the war?

Clinton supporter pressures Pelosi over White House battle
Posted: 10:12 AM ET
WASHINGTON -- In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless Pelosi embraced a new plan by the movie mogul to finance a revote of the Democratic presidential primaries in Florida and Michigan, according to three officials who were briefed on the contents of the conversation.

The three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the private phone conversation, said Weinstein, a top supporter of Clinton's presidential campaign, appeared determined to buy Clinton more time in her battle against Sen. Barack Obama by pushing for the revote and pressing Pelosi to back off her previous comments that superdelegates should support the candidate who's leading in pledged delegates in early June.

Weinstein, a co-founder of Miramax Films who now runs the Weinstein Company, called CNN Thursday to vehemently deny that he issued any threats. "Never, ever was the thought about denying funding to Democrats," he said.

Weinstein said the phone call focused on his offer to put together a team of people to help finance a revote in Florida and Michigan. "I told her people felt there would be a disenfranchisement of voters" unless Democrats came up with a remedy, he said.

Obama is for Obama. Just because they share a generally elitist world outlook and indifference to the working/middle class, it doesn't mean he shares their politics or philosophy. Unless they also think Ronald Reagan was the cat's pajamas and that the Republicans are better than Democrats on a whole host of issues.

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BREAKING NEWS: Congressman Chris Carney (PA) endorses Senator Hillary Clinton

U.S. Rep. Chris Carney announced Thursday that he's backing Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary

Carney reported meeting with Clinton Wednesday, "and let her know Thursday that I am supporting her."

"I have watched this primary process very closely, and as I said I would do, I have weighed the temperament and leadership displayed by Sens. Clinton and Obama during the course of this campaign," Carney said in a statement. "We are extremely fortunate to have two very strong candidates vying to lead our nation. Pennsylvania's 10th (Congressional) District (voters) overwhelmingly chose Sen. Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary and I will respect their decision."

Rebecca Gale, his press secretary, said he was traveling with a congressional delegation to the U.S-Mexico border to evaluate border security and unavailable for comment.

A full story will be available in Friday's print edition of The Daily Review.

Then will be swiftly defeated by the monolithic, white, racist, voting bloc known as the Republican party. Not including white crossover democrats who will NEVER elect a black man as a national leader and commander in chief. And to those crossover "Reagan" democrats, how many stay republican? I do not know of ONE democrat personally who will vote for Barack Obama in November. I swear, I am not lying.

My only question is who is the selfish one here? Who is really thinking about the democratic party as a whole? Obama who thinks he can win with this crazy "new" democratic map or Hillary who knows she can win by the same states William Jefferson Clinton won in his 1996 campaign, except for maybe Arizona because of McCain's back yard. Compare Hillary's primary wins to Obama's primary wins. She wins, he does not. It's not math it is reality.

What would you do if you were McCain and you knew that Obama did not pick Gov. Rendell as his VP and instead picked a Westerner?

Way to promote Unity and stay above the fray, Hill!!

And to boot - I have a headache from concentrating too hard.

I got no clues right now.

At this time in 2002 Bill Clinton was running third; maybe the dems should have nominated Ross Perot?

This is from your link.
Senate Minority Leader Buzz Thomas of Detroit, co-chairman for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Michigan, said the Obama campaign shouldn't be blamed for killing the primary do-over.