Personally, I think the Democratic National Committee should select the best-qualified candidate. I bring up the color and sex issue only to mock Democrats’ obsession with votes while they care nothing about putting “people of color” in leadership positions. Read this sarcastic post.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The seven candidates seeking the job — a group headlined by former presidential contender Howard Dean — has spent the last several weeks trooping to regional Democratic forums around the country, holding fundraisers to build campaign treasuries that exceed $200,000, juggling demands from influential interest groups and deluging the 447 voting DNC members with calls pursuing their vote…Former Ohio Democratic Chairman David Leland and former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, the only African American in the contest, have drawn limited support.
While Bush is appointing black women and Hispanics to high-profile positions, let the white boys at the DNC fight among themselves. Who cares? Howard Dean, Michael Moore: What difference does it make?
Unrelated link: Check out last night’s blogger symposium with myself, Hugh Hewitt, John Hawkins and Karol Sheinin.
Update: Looks like screaming Dean is a shoe-in. We shall overcome some other day…
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How lucky could Republicans and Karl Rove get if Howard Dean wins the leadership of the DNC?
The competition for the DNC by the candidates, as seen on C-Span, is an interesting insight into the Democratic party today. The most interesting is to listen to the common theme of ‘we lost because we didn’t get our message out as well the Republicans. We need better local grassroots organization’.
In general, they are still in almost total denial of being on the ‘wrong’ side of the issues, security and morals. Keep up the good work…GO HOWARD!
Bwahahaha
“Who cares” is the right attitude. No matter who the Dems choose to head the DNC wing of the DNC/MSM, the DNC/MSM will follow the same policies and make the same mistakes.
Click on my name to see why we should refer to the DNC/MSM as a singular noun from now on.
Ah, to have Howard Dean as chairman and Batty Boxer on the ticket in 2008… Put her in as Hillary’s running mate, and the whole package will scare voters into voting red like nothing Rove could envision.
Weaken the military? Check
Bloated socialistic beauracracy for health care and retirment? Check
Appeasement of old Europe and ignoring the islamic world? Check
Nutty treaties based on junk science? Check.
O-Dub, AKA Bagdad Blob, as press Secretary? Check.
The Blogging Symposium was interesting. Only time will tell.
As for the biggies getting involved, I dunno. I never follow any of the corporate types (i.e. Slate), except to go there when following a supporting link. I’d rather stick to and pay a few solo/group bloggers and let them filter/parse current events for me — there’s only so much time in a day.
But then again, maybe syndicated blogging’s what the masses would prefer. I guess the bricks-n-mortar compariosn would be independent CPAs vs H&R Block.
Another thing to consider will be video blogging. Sort of like Cable Access going global. Think of how prolific someone with talent could be to talk, rather than write. Not to mention the real-time give & take dynamics of video commenting. In another few years, Speech to Text should be on par with closed captioning for those without the bandwidth to follow along.
But what do I know? I don’t do IM, never have nor any intention (to my way of thinking, it’s rather like being bombarded with phone calls when I have work to do or when I’m not in a communicative mood), so I’m rather clueless on some aspects of Internet communications
If not now, when? Why isn’t Donna Brazile acceptable to them, for example?
I suppose the late Ron Brown was acceptable enough, too, but methinks those days are gone with Bill Clinton.
The new DNC wants blacks to remain in the fossilized halls of the NAACP, seldom seen but often heard…
The DNC only eats white M&M’s, and drinks white wine on their plantation no others need apply.
Ooooohhhhh…
I guess my first thought would be would the RNC be more progressive than the DNC???
Feel free to jump and give your opinion on that.
Oh. I guess my perspective is a little mixed up. I was trying to make the point that a black woman running the state department is light-years better than running the hackish DNC. I don’t do comedy well.
My bad.
LB, good points.
I noticed that the people protesting the Iraqi elections are also all white. Of course they know what’s best for people in Iraq.
I think the Dems are run by people suffering from white guilt which is just a masquerade for racism of a different form.
Last night the subject of Catcher in the Rye also came up with some Dem. friends, and I said the main character was just a rich white brat who never worked for his money and so thought everyone else was as lazy and corrupt as he was. But my friends were all like “no no he was a hero” yeah geez…
The (comedy) article I wrote today for my website picks up on the white people know what’s best theme, click on my name if you want to read it. (I’m a whitey btw
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Hit the road Dems, ’cause you ain’t comin’ back for a longgggggggggg time!
Paid for by Republicans for Dean, ‘05
God help the DNC if they really put Dean incharge. I have hard-line dem friends, voted Kerry and the whole bit, but they HATE Dean. They would not admit it, but he was the only Dem I could make fun of with out getting “the look of death” from them.
You KNOW the Dems have a problem when shows on my local Wilmington, DE cable access channel — which feature programs almost exclusively devoted to [black] city residents who’re overwhelmingly Democrats — begin questioning whether city voters should look beyond the Democratic Party (as a popular show did this past Sunday night).
the Dark Lord Rove is laughing. He will have two moles working for the Republicans, Moore and Dean. What a twofer!!
Dear LaShawn,
Bush promotes 2 black Americans, and cuts housing assistance, health care, NCLB act, other aid and benefits for millions of other African Americans (among others) — and this is a positive thing?
You may be well off, I dare say you have at least a Bachelor’s degree; but I spent all last night (after a knock at my door at 11:30 pm) and most of today with my neighbor, the sweetest woman in the world whom I adore, as she cried –nay, HOWLED– her despair in that she was functionally illiterate, could not read sufficiently even to get a job at WAL-MART
…yet the ultimate reason for the 11th hour knock and the emotional trauma today (which is far from over) was because she was then and still is, threatening suicide because she has no options.
No life.
No hope.
(Kindly don’t get me on punctuation or run-on sentences, I’m too upset to even care about proper grammar right now)
She can’t get a job, she goes to programs EVERY day from which she receives a meager stipend, but they’re being shut down; and now she will have no income whatsoever to maintain her shabby little studio apartment furnished with a love seat snatched from the curb.
I should have had a better clue last week when she –for the first time ever, and I’ve known her for 15 years– asked to “borrow” money (which I know she’ll pay it back, if she ever can!) because she hadn’t eaten and had no food in the house.
Soup kitchens, you ask? …as Rush Limbaugh scoffed at?
It takes MONEY to even take the BUS to them!
And LaShawn — I can guarantee you she is FAR from alone in these circumstances. Because of cut benefits, she has been homeless at least 2 times the past couple years, reduced to living in a shelter.
Yes, the DNC had a roster of white men only for the chair; but while Bush promotes TWO, many people seem to forget that the vast majority of people of color in this country are being put in circumstances that are only becoming much worse and more dire. The Democratic party has ALWAYS had the welfare of the populace as its first priority, NOT tax-cuts for the ultra-rich;
but this doesn’t seem to matter anymore!
And it is not far when this neocon Republican Party will begin its own schisms, as their KKKristians and militia members (among sundry others) will not tolerate going to war for Israel. Nor will they fight for African American causes — although it seems safe there won’t be any (overt) near future problems about race in America from that quarter since the Republicans seem determined to reduce succor to needy people, including needy people of color, in this nation.
But let’s give tax breaks to the rich!
Additionally, Bush’s statements about black Americans being shortchanged in Social Security benefits by their short lifespans is a much more PERTINENT argument for BETTER HEALTH CARE over (cutting) Social Security benefits, is it not?
HOW does extending the age until you can receive Social Security benefit black men when they die younger, I wonder??
As a white female who is a life-long Democrat, pro-women’s rights, pro HUMAN rights; I’m not too crazy about the DNC’s choices myself, yet I see no modern-day Shirley Chisolm (God rest her beautiful soul!) as of yet stepping forward to apply for the chair, nor any other-than-black female who wants to take the job. Ms. Clinton and Ms. Boxer, Ms. Slaughter and others ***see below*** are where they seem to want to be, so it is not for me to demand they step up.
***Note in the 109th Congress; there are 9 female Democratic Senators and 5 Republican — almost a two to one 1 ratio.
Of the 68 women in the House, 45 are Democrats, 23 Republicans — over a THREE to one ratio!
ALL OF THE 14 BLACK FEMALE MEMBERS of the House of Representatives are DEMOCRATS, which happens to be the party of every single African-American member of the House!
…which begs the question: WHERE are the proportional number of black &/or female Republicans?
THIS is the DNC wanting “blacks to remain in the fossilized halls of the NAACP, seldom seen but often heard”?!
Tell me — what then would you *truthfully* say about the Republican Party in terms of black women?
Just Conndoleezza Rice? This may or may not be intended on Bush’s part, but his *S*elected 1-2 black cabinet members, no matter the level of their status, seem to cry *Token*, do they not?
As for elected officials –aka EVERYBODY ELSE– whatever you DO say will be accompanied by the echoes from a completely empty hall — there is NO getting around THAT!
Is it even remotely fair to denigrate the DNC because of the homogeneity of their applicants?
And because of they being white and male, does this then mean they’ll stop working for the poor? Does this mean they’ll stop working for people of color and for the RIGHTS of people of color AND GLBT (and just plain old uncategorized Human Beings)? Do not those, fully American citizens as the rest of us, deserve the same rights and benefits of those who toe the contemporary ideal of the post-modern, neonuclear, upwardly-mobile family who just happen to seem to somehow need some kind of protection of their marriage?
LaShawn, truly, I just cannot understand the lines of belief and reasoning you espouse… and I’d LIKE to, I really would.
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