My Photo

Categories

Feeds and more

  • [ BadgerLink logo ]
Blog powered by Typepad

Stats

Uppity Wisconsin - Progressive Webmasters

« John Wiley's Bipartisan Criticism Needs Some Sunlight | Main | It Is Time To Think About the Parents. »

August 27, 2008

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Curtis Goodson

The convention is in St. Paul, the capital city of Minnesota.

Joe R

The GOP has its own unity problem, with the supporters of Ron Paul holding a parallel "convention" in the Twin Cities. Should we expect the coverage of that to surpass all the blathering about PUMAs and disaffected Hillary supporters? We'll see. Probably not.

Peter Rickman

As an elected official in the Democratic Party of Wisconsin (chair of the Democratic Party of the 2nd Congressional District, on the Administrative Committee of the DPW), I can tell you that I run into very few Democrats that are "divided" or that our party and its supporters are in disarray. Quite the contrary from what you'll hear from the traditional media who have crafted and latched onto a narrative that cannot be broken by the simple facts of the truth.

And as someone who was not an Obama supporter during the primary season (I was very much a John Edwards person, spending most of my time working to help organize the campaign), I can tell you that our party is 100% behind electing Barack Obama as our next president. Sure, there are dead-enders out there, scattered here and there. But it is the instance of a servile media lapping up these cases few and far between that continues this faux "story line." I speak with hundreds of Democrats every week and I have yet to meet one of these people who are wholly unsatisfied with Barack Obama as a nominee. Even fewer are those that are the Clintonite dead-enders.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have been magnificent this week (and this is coming from someone who is of a generation where Bill and Hillary are not the end-all-and-be-all of the Democratic Party) and have been 100% there for Senator Obama. The traditional media need to get over this non-story and start reporting on the most out-of-touch and dead-wrong Republican nominee since Bob Dole - and no more of the fawning coverage that comes from a press that John McCain proudly declares his "base."

Republicans are the ones in disarray with their coalition fracturing after years of being held together because of tight discipline and a real conservative movement behind it, their leaders in their drive for power and an ideological crusade far out of line with the American people squandering any popular support they ever had.

If this election is won by John McCain, it will not be because of a Democratic Party in trouble but instead because of a traditional media unwilling and unable to confront the facts on the ground about John McCain and Barack Obama, and their competing visions for this country and their individual personhoods.

The comments to this entry are closed.