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You get what you pay -- oops, vote -- for
The memos from Senator Clinton's presidential primary campaign have been auspiciously released to have a maximal impact on residual resentment among some registered Democrats about the enormous sexist bias during the campaign and the relative inertia of party elders to combat it. Democrats can now blame Clinton's "failure" on the lack of coherence in the her campaign.
Although I personally feel that sexism WITHIN the ranks of the Democratic Party will have been a decisive factor in Clinton's upcoming -- practically certain -- loss of the nomination, I cannot ignore that Obama's campaign was run by one of the two current campaign geniuses, Axelrod and Rove.
We are preparing to yield to Axelrod's advertising as we yielded to Rove's. The over-marketed under-experienced candidate may well win out in the end and we will have four more years of the same. We are getting some "ciming attractions" -- flipflops on FISA, drilling, etc-- but from the moment that an electorate focuses on rhetoric rather than record, there is little hope for an election result that can turn the country around.
Comments (2)
Equating Axelrod with Rove that's pretty good. So by your deductive skills Penn and Rove can be equated, Geoff Garin and Rove can be equated. In fact all political strategists can be equated with Rove.
You see with out substance to back up your silly remark it really doesn't hold up.
August 13, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, all political strategists can't be compared and found equal. I won't stoop to call your reaction "silly" but your reading skills do seem limited and please don't attribute the false deduction which appears in your post to me. I'm comparing two highly skilled strategists who have succeeded in convincing voters to support their respective under-experienced candidates.
Penn is not the equal of either Axelrod or Rove. Axelrod and Rove are masters of manipulating public opinion and Rove may be even slicker than Axelrod. Assuming that Rove is constantly behind the scenes, we've already seen how he manipulated the race issue AGAINST Obama. And -- of course --he told McCain surrogates not to forget to say that they had seen how Obama used the race card "against the Clintons" earlier on.
The clever use of the footage of Obama's big German moment is another example-- turning it into a mistake ... then defending their showcasing of it by insisting that Obama had attacked himself by setting up such an exorbitant venue in the first place... then skillfully countering the megabuck cast-of-thousand Berlin appearance with some down-home scenes of McCain and Americana which certain pundits made fun of ... BUT which reduced Obama's Europe bounce to zero ...AND contributed to maintaining the impression that the media is biased.
August 13, 2008 4:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
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