I'm sorry that the Democratic Party has decided to abandon the BlueDog Democrats who have kept this party going though the Reagan years and these Bush years for the new "strange" the so called "Creative" Class that brings the same kind of liberal/leftist thinking that drove many away back in the 80s.

Like my mom said, the Democratic Party is on a suicide mission.  And I refuse to aid them in this endeavor.

People are going to start asking, "if he is winning, why does he keep losing?"

KY is arguably a swing state.  It's not Utah.  Clinton has a chance there.  Taylor Marsh had a quote from Mr Potato Head yesterday that came before IN/NC, wherein he said that if Clinton won IN, Obama was in trouble.

The worst part is that they seem to be betraying the core Democratic value of fighting for the lower classes.

Thank Gawd so relatively few people read the blogs.

Thank Gawd so relatively few people read the blogs.

Again and again, Obama had the chance to take the high road.  Can you imagine where we would be now if, during any one instance, he had taken a moral stand against the blatant misogyny in the media?  What if he'd joined Clinton in boycotting MSNBC for their sexist comments?  What if he'd written a letter to Shuster alongside Clinton, demanding they apologize for the "pimp" remark?

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Under the 2208 delegate model, both candidates would be on the home stretch, Obama would be 57 yards from the finish line, while Hillary would be 63 yards from the finish line... with super delegates having the ability to make the distance to the finish line approximately 60 yards shorter for either candidate. And John Edwards delegates hame the ability to make the distance to the finish line 6 yards shorter for either candidate.

Under 2024 delegate model, both candidates would be on the home stretch and Obama would be 38 yards from the finish line, while Hillary would be 71 yards from the finish line.  Superdelegates could make the distance to the finish line 58 yards shorter for either candidate, while John Edward's delegates could make it four yards shorter.

when i was a senior in h.s., i worked on weekend mornings cleaning & setting up 3 bars at the NCO club at quantico. i also did the liquor inventory. PBR was about the cheapest beer you could buy, and it still was about the slowest mover. billy beer was worse, but not by much! lol

ok, i'll bite, truthmatters! since it does, please provide the names of those who you glibly accuse of this:

should Hillary be judged by her supporters that feel she should be President because Obama is a racist Muslim who will destroy the Country?

i've not seen any here. maybe at some of right-whacko blogs, but not here.

since we're on the double-standard topic, i find it interesting that sen. obama making direct appeals to the black community, that he's done nothing discernible for in all his (few) years in public office, to vote for him solely because he's black, is ok. sen. clinton, citing her support among blue-collar caucasions (much more numerous than the AA community) is accused of being racist.

this is the type of heavy duty thought process that dooms sen. obama in the fall, should he be the dem. nominee. it's a self-inflicted fatal wound.

living in Hyde Park to shopping at Whole Foods and drinking PBR.

Cultural Shift: Out with Bubbas, up with Creatives.  Sorry, Bubbas get very little representation in this country.  The creative class has always benefitted from corporate welfare (grants to univ, R&D paid for with Bubba tax dollars etc)

It will consistently send out cultural signals designed to appeal primarily to the creative class instead of rich donors and the white working class.  Oh yeah, cuz dem wite wurkin clas peepul bin lovin on the Dem partee (who's congressional ratings are in the toilet)

Policy Shift: Up with technocratic wonks. That;s the same old same old.. down with manufacturing jobs until we are a country of managers?  We already have that, that's not new.

It will all be very oriented toward think-tank and academic types, but still not overtly leftist. Sorry, that's the same, this govt is riddled with think tanks and people who ponder what to do yet never manage to get anything done.  We can't get leftist policies with Republican control, if the goal is to dump leftist, rather than vote new Dem party, just voted old Repub party. People keep complaining that both parties are so corrupt, elitist and ineffective there is no actual representation.  He just wants to make it official.  So what?  We are going to continue to screw you, we're just telling you up front.

Coalition reorganization: A long-standing Democrats approach of transactional politics with different issue and demographic silos in the party shift toward an emphasis on good government (goo goo) approaches. (both sides getting screwed is business as usual) instead of on, say, placating labor unions (again with loss of focus on manufacturing, is not new), environment groups, and the LGBT community by throwing each of these groups a policy bone or two. (THAT is business as usual) Now, the focus will be on broad, squishy fixes that are designed to appeal to several groups at once. (refusing to focus on real issues that face the country is business as usual) It should feel kind of like PIRG, but a bit more right-wing, academic and well-to-do. (Ha! Ha! that's new?)

Maybe it isn't an oversight.  In California and in the Northeast the so-called "creative class" or technocrats rely on latinos (including now brazilians in New England) to do much of the janitorial work.

Of course, I am baffled by the whole "it's over" thing anyway.  Why can't he just say he's now confidant about his chances, but that he won't be satisfied until he's made his case to every last voter?  That everyone counts now as well as in November and he wants to take advantage of this time to introduce himself to all the voters, get to know them and their needs and let them get to know him, telling them he looks forward to coming back and continuing their conversation in November.  That would be a gracious and statesmanlike way to wind things down.

The reason he is not winding this up graciously is he's scared.  He's scared either that things are not so in the bag as everyone says, or he's scared that there is a shoe out there somewhere that is liable to drop on him at any moment.  Who knows which it might be.  Is there an anti-American smoking gun sitting in the vault at Fox News?  Is there a Rezko/Auichi bombshell on the horizon?  Is the Odinga thing going to bubble up?  Have a core of undeclared supers sent him negative signals about his Nov. prospects?  Does Clinton have the votes on the rules committee for May 31?

But many, if not all Dems who voted for Hillary will support the nominee.  

I read recently that 49% of McCain supporters said in 2000 they would not vote for Bush.

Once either Clinton withdraws or the nomination is conclusively decided, he will need to reach out to working class voters.  

Trade is one area he can point to . . . health care is the biggest one.  While Clinton supporters feel his plan doesn't go far enough and is unworkable, it's a hell of a lot better than anything we'll see from McCain.  And McCain will paint his plan with the Universal Healthcare/socialized medicine brush.

But West Virginia is a state that does not count to the Obama Movement. It has those white working class voters that the Creative Class is trying to purge from the Party

Obama is a good candidate to do that, he just needs to be careful and make sure he is working hard to keep voters in rust belt states.

As for your obsession with these kind of guilt by association stuff, the folks at open left have hardly been die hard Obama supporters, in fact they have gone after him a few times, they may have ended up in his camp, but melon scaif ended up in Hillary's no one qoutes him as being a signal of Obama supporters.

wow, just wow. That is so emblematic of the "creative class" such as Bowers and his ilk to be crowing about exorcising from the democratic party the very people - THE LOWER CLASS, POOR AND DISADVANTAGED, which is exactly where "the Bubbas" roam - that the creative class think so highly of themselves for helping out.

Which is exactly what the MCMers (NBC and its spawn, in particular) want. Depress voter turnour, dampen enthusiam, dry up her donations from small donors. Hold down popular vote totals.

Edwards was too openly populist, Hillary too...populist?  And Obama is just right?

Now, more than ever, I'm worried that we do not know what an Obama administration will do. What are his goals beyond hope, change, fixing things (which things, how, whose solutions???).

He's transcendent alright at bamboozling speed.  It's like Obama's playing to everything and the creative class is just whispering to each other that it's all part of the plan.  The creative class is disingenuous and devoid of common sense. They are in love with the image of Obama, an image they see as themselves. It's called self-interest, not a real unifying message. They do not understand the reality of life on the ground for average Americans and obviously hold the working middle class in contempt as well politically useless.  The creative class members are entrenched in a movement full of contradictions without foundation and it is propagated by a bait and switch leadership style. They languish in Obama's ambiguity. Substance to Obama seems almost a nuisance, only dealt with when needed, like bowling. Ambiguity is Obama's substance.  

Unity is an admirable goal. Can the creative class clarify how it is achieved as it relates to the issues? How do we compromise on core principles? Exactly what are their core values? Is unity the avoidance of divisive issues which is analogous to voting present? Is voting present the embodiment of effective leadership? Can the Creatives define what a purple America looks like. What are its core values? It has got to be more than can't we all just get a long. Pick an issue make it purple- abortion, school prayer, or war, tell us how to reach a compromise?