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Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 21:00:00 PM EDT
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| Kate and I returned from a quick getaway to the mountains, away from the internets, politics and anything blog-related. Many thanks to PHB contributors and guest posters who kept the coffee and tea flowing. I haven't even caught up with all of my reading; I'm just going through the very-full inbox while in between loads of laundry.
Some tidbits and observations...
 * Commercial Prada Papa Ratzi. Pope Benedict arrives in the U.S. on Tuesday. I suppose he's going to do his usual anti-reproductive freedom blasts and gay-bashing, and tell Americans about how sick our consumer culture is. Oh wait, scratch that last one lest I accuse Papa Ratzi of being a hypocrite -- "souvenirs" of his trip are flying off the shelves and some proceeds are going to the church.
Would you like to visit the Archdiocese of Washington's PopeVisit2008.com? On sale: $18 T-shirts ("Property of Pope Benedict XVI"), $2.50 bumper stickers, as well as a T-shirt for Build-a-Bear toys that has a Christ Our Hope logo ($6). Other non-licensed items include: Pope on a Rope soap for $9.99; Pope's Cologne for $25.95; Pope Benedict bobblehead for $12.95.
* The whole Obama "bitter" brouhaha. I mistakenly turned on CNN while away, and there the news bleaters were, talking about this proto-scandal of Obama using the term bitter to describe blue collar voters disillusioned by the turn of the economic tide against them, as finding solace in clinging "to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...."
As this was breathlessly reported on at least twice while I had the TV on, I turned to Kate and said -- "is there nothing else to report?" and flipped it off. I was serious -- aside from the predictable reaction that he is being elitist or out of touch, no one with any credibility can say that what Obama said wasn't true. It appears to me, as I was not willing to watch any more news over the weekend while away, that the issue was less about the word "bitter" than Obama's politically blunt truth-telling.
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| Pam Spaulding :: Back to reality - blogmistress this and that |
| For instance, did any reporters do any digging to see whether incidents of hate crimes, discrimination and such increases in these blue-collar towns when joblessness rises? Is there a correlation between economic discomfort and a lashing out at the "other?" I'm pretty sure this is likely, and I'm sure that Obama was making an observation many do about these situations. His real "crime" -- one not articulated in the reporting I saw -- was the fact that he was calling out the low-information voter demographic, those who are swayed by emotional appeals to the base biases and instincts by Republicans (and of late the Clinton campaign).
Oh, by the way, does Hillary have a problem with Bill's even more blunt statement in 1991: "You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'" Again, she opens the door to race-baiting, without even a hint at any deeper analysis of why blue-collar, economically disenfranchised white voters might drift toward racial animus and xenophobia as a response?
But back to the present day...what Obama could have done as a PR move (and perhaps he's done it already), is to point the blame for the economic woes on the GOP, which shipped a ton of those blue-collar jobs overseas, and left industrial states to pick up the pieces. Or the foot-dragging Congress, and this President, ready to concoct ways to bail out financial institutions from bad business decision and send out meaningless rebate checks rather than consider extending unemployment benefits.
Of course the GOP is masterful at avoiding blame for the mess that they created and this sense of bitterness/disillusionment in lunch-bucket America. Clinton was happy to capitalize on that because, at this point, she has a lock on the "fear of the black man" vote. No one wants to say that, but that's the bottom line.
* Obama coming to Raleigh on Thursday for a town hall. Just received the 411 on this, and would really like to cover the event for PHB. Trying to see how I can snare press credentials for the event. If there are Obama staffers reading - help a local LGBT citizen blogger out! The Obama HQ in Raleigh registered 1,000 on Friday alone, so the town hall will be packed.
* Energized politics around the state: interestingly, as we drove westward along I-40 in NC on Friday, Kate and I were checking the candidate signs along the way. Saw a few Hillary signs, a ton of Obama bumper stickers (they were everywhere in Asheville), and quite a few Jim Neal signs. No Kay Hagan signs to speak of.
* Speaking of Jim Neal, some news from over the weekend.
- Kay Hagan refuses to appear at a TV debate in Durham on WTVD. Now you'd think that in a race where you've outspent your opponent (Neal) by a boatload and you are still tied at 20%, that you'd want to reach as many undecided voters by going on television to introduce yourself to them and show how you'd be a better senator than Elizabeth Dole (The current poll). Then again, I made the incorrect assumption that she would answer how she would vote on specific legislation that she would face if elected. Big mistake.
- And Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny had this to say: So far Jim has been holding his own in polls-- and even beat the Republican-lite Hagan in a straw poll, 54-46%. And he beat her in one of the most conservative districts in the state, the 10th CD, home of the diminutive neo-fascist congressman and betrayer of military secrets, Patrick McHenry.
...Jim has asked Hagen to debate from the instant she was lured by Schumer into the race. But the DSCC is advising her that she will lose the primary in a landslide if TV viewers see trying to debate him. Schumer is frantic to keep the race as undercover as he can so that he doesn't wind up with another embarrassment when he attempted to slip a Republican-lite Democrat into the Montana Senate in 2006, only to be rebuffed and made to look like a fool and a tool. Jim's campaign claims Hagen's spinning of why she is afraid to debate isn't fooling anyone. "Hagan wants to buy this election with TV ads and avoid a real discussion." Senator Hagan's campaign strategy is to raise more money, avoid legitimate debate and blanket the airwaves with television ads. It is typical Washington politics-as-usual and it amounts to selling our elections to the highest bidder.
Senator Hagan's cynical and disingenuous refusal to debate flies in the face of her claim to be a candidate of change.
Political candidates and elected officials are supposed to answer questions from, not dictate terms to, an independent news media. We've had enough of the latter from the Bush Administration.
Progressives who would like to help Jim Neal challenge the Big Money Insiders of both political Establishments can donate directly to his campaign through our Blue America ActBlue page. - Jim Neal, showing the power of grassroots campaigning, won North Carolina's 10th Congressional District Straw Poll on Saturday 53% to Hagan's 47%. (Other results in the Straw Poll: Obama 54, Clinton 43; Gov - Perdue 53%, Moore 47%; Lt. Gov: Smathers 38%, Besse 27%, Dalton 24%. Dellinger 10%).
- There's a great diary by Robert P. on DKos, NC Sen: It's Lieberman vs. Lamont, Part I.
* EqualityNC PAC endorsements. The endorsements of our local LGBT advocacy org are interesting. Richard Moore earned the thumbs up for [H]is adoption of a non-discrimination policy including sexual orientation for the Department of State Treasurer as evidence of his support for equal rights. "Treasurer Moore has demonstrated leadership in standing up for fairness in state government and is committed to fighting discrimination as Governor," said Ian Palmquist, the group's Executive Director. "We are proud to support his campaign." What's interesting about the rest of the slate is where there are NOT endorsements (and I have no inside dope as to why) -- nothing for Lt. Governor, where there are four candidates in the running -- Canton Mayor Pat Smathers, Raleigh attorney Hampton Dellinger, state Sen. Walter Dalton, and Winston-Salem City Councilman Dan Besse, who jumped at the chance to be profiled on the Blend. Since ENC only endorses state candidates, not federal, that's why there's no endorsement of either Kay Hagan or Jim Neal. |
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