MyDD :: Superdelegates! Bring back the days of James Carville and the Clintons!

Superdelegates! Bring back the days of James Carville and the Clintons!

by Bob Johnson, Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:14:19 PM EST

Ah, the glory days! How we miss them!

James Carville, front and center, as the know-it-all political genius (married to the Republican public relations mastermind, Mary Matalin, who built the phony case for war in Iraq, to which Carville's good friend, Senator Hillary Clinton, subscribed).

The same James Carville who, today, reiterates his insult of fellow Democrat Bill Richardson for having the audacity to endorse Barack Obama.

[Author's note: Having read Carville's justification for reiterating his insult to Richardson, I have to ask... What has Hillary Clinton ever done for Richardson? Carville's piece seems to be all about how Bill Clinton boosted Richardson's career. Does that mean Richardson owes lifetime allegiance to Bill's wife? Odd reasoning, indeed.]

Can we get enough of these guys in Washington? Carville, Terry McAuliffe, Mark Penn, the Clintons and their never-ending sagas and dramas?

Hey, superdelegates, can you please bring all of that back for us to enjoy?

McCain is a weak candidate in a horrible year for Republicans. He will be thumped in the Fall by Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

But I know our Democratic senators and congressional representatives in Washington want nothing more than to spend years of political capital -- not to mention, time and energy -- defending the Clintons from the questions that would certainly tail their return trip to the White House... Like Bill's financial dealings with everyone from the Canadian billionaire he took to Kazakhstan to land a uranium mining deal, to the secretive list of donors to his presidential library. Or how Hillary managed to raise so much money from Chinese dishwashers and busboys in New York. Or Norman Hsu. Or the Tan family. And girls, girls, girls!

All great stuff. What could be more fun for our elected Democrats in Washington?

Oh, how I pine for the days of losing our majorities in the House and the Senate! And I am not alone!

Superdelegates! You have it in your power to bring back these glory days! No matter what the primary results show! (I know this because Howard Wolfson has told me so.)

I await your reply!

- Bob Johnson

Tags: James Carville, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, superdelegates, snark (all tags)

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Are you being sarcastic Bob? (none / 0)

'cause it seems to me that until recently you were an Obama supporter.

by MediaFreeze on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:24:10 PM EST

Re: Superdelegates (none / 0)

Bob knows exactly the reasoning behind the Superdelegates not ending this thing now..don't you Bob?????????

by Liberty on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:25:49 PM EST

No, no, Bob. (1.50 / 2)

All wrong. The guy who came out of nowhere to beat the Clinton machine and the entire allied Democratic establishment will collapse like a tinfoil marionette before McCain. Have you not read any diaries here recently that lay out the inevitability of Obama's defeat?

:-)

"This election is not about ideology, it's about competence." -Michael Dukakis

by MBNYC on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:28:44 PM EST

Zerosumgame, are you a troll? (none / 0)

Or why are you following me from diary to diary trollrating my comments?

"This election is not about ideology, it's about competence." -Michael Dukakis

by MBNYC on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 01:20:38 PM EST
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They're waiting (2.00 / 1)

until June 4th (?), when Montana and South Dakota will have voted. In practical terms, it will be over after Indiana and North Carolina. But if this party is supposed to come together again, Hillary's supporters need to be satisfied that there might not still have been a chance for her to win at the ballot box.

"This election is not about ideology, it's about competence." -Michael Dukakis

by MBNYC on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:33:36 PM EST

Re: Superdelegates! Bring back the days of James C (none / 0)

Bob,

The Kazakh deal actually has more to it. Frank Giustra turned around and sold his company UrAsia to Uranium One of South Africa.

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by lizardbox on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:34:10 PM EST

Actually, you're seeing this now. (none / 0)

Richardson, Leahey...

This is the gentle prodding stages.
Add to it the fact that Howard Dean has ruled out this going to a convention fight.
Next week you'll see the prodding get a little tougher.
And then a little tougher.
If she doesn't wipe the floor with Obama, and I mean at least 20 points, in PA, it will get real tough.

And after Indian and North Carolina, she'll just have to leave, or they will in fact do just what you suggest, embarrass her.

John McCain supports privatizing Social Security.

by Travis Stark on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 12:34:31 PM EST

One of the best things... (none / 0)

...that would come out of an Obama nomination is the demise of the triangulating, PR, salami slicing consultants who have dominated (and decimated) Democrat politics for the last two decades.

They just don't get it. They just don't get how lots of small donors could trump a clique of rich donors, how they can't just make money out of the gridlock gravy train, and most importantly, how they couldn't just play a mixture of pork barrel and identity politics. They thought they had the world sewn up in their categories. Well, politics for a long time was certainly suffocated by it.

Yes, superdelegates, overcome your fear. Don't worry about being called a Judas or 'insignificant'. The old regime is dying with Hillary's candidacy.

Now Loose on the Moose

by brit on Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 06:32:46 PM EST

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