And This Will Be Going On Your PER-manent Record…
(Get your own horse head vendetta pillow here.)
Just so you know, all that “no hard feelings” business?
As the Obama bandwagon has swelled, so have the lists of people Clinton loyalists regard as some variation of “ingrate,” “traitor” or “enemy,” according to the associates and campaign officials, who would speak only on condition of anonymity.
Philippe Reines, a spokesman for both Clintons, said neither kept any specific catalog of those believed to have wronged them. “There is no list,” Mr. Reines said.
The lists maintained by supporters tend to be less formal documents than spoken diatribes, with offenders’ names spat forth in rants, gripe sessions and post-mortems.
Several names and entities are common among various list makers. The lineup invariably begins with A-list members like Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico; Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the House Democratic whip; Gregory B. Craig, Mr. Clinton’s lawyer in his impeachment and trial; David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist; Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri; and several Kennedys. Some members of the Democratic Party’s rules committee, the state of Iowa and the caucus system in general are also near the top.
Ooh! And me! Me, too!
Prominent list entries tend to be philosophical about their status. “When you’re on the losing end of a campaign, your sense of victimization is higher,” said Joe Andrew, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (appointed by Mr. Clinton) who joined the lists after he switched his superdelegate allegiance from Mrs. Clinton to Mr. Obama just before the primary in his home state, Indiana.
Mr. Richardson, the former energy secretary and United Nations ambassador under President Clinton who endorsed Mr. Obama after leaning toward Mrs. Clinton, said, “I know they’re unhappy, but I’ve been on these lists before.”
You know, it’s a crying fucking shame that such a nice, vendetta-free, completely mature bunch of consummate professionals were denied the keys to the White House for another round. They were so obviously going to change everything and move government away from the same old calcified systems of party hack-ism and incessant coup counting.
My god. WHAT have we done?
7 Responses to “And This Will Be Going On Your PER-manent Record…”
By scory on Jun 11, 2008 9:19 am |
Bill ‘n Hill are good in a knife fight, I’ll give them that.
What’s fascinating to watch is how quietly, transparently, and effectively the DNC (and the Obama campaign) have been able to neutralize a lot of the potential damage. The blowhards and bloviators of the DLC (the Clintons, Lieberman, Emmanuel, McAuliffe) are slowly but surely being isolated, and quietly defused. Watching this process is a lot like watching a minefield be removed by professionals. It’s slow, it’s painstaking, and if its done right, nobody gets hurt. If you let the children play in the minefield, well then, the horror is pretty awful.
By burnspbesq on Jun 11, 2008 10:03 am |
scory said
Great analogy. And to carry the analogy one step further, we should just go about our business (i.e., the business of making sure that the American people know what a f**king disaster McCain’t would be) and let the professionals do their jobs.
By TRex on Jun 11, 2008 11:01 am |
Fresh thread:
http://www.iamtrex.com/?p=1076
By Ann in AZ on Jun 11, 2008 11:03 am |
Ann in AZ said
Good thing Obama has a big gun, then, isn’t it?!!
By stogoe on Jun 11, 2008 1:11 pm |
The State of Iowa? Really? Really!? The whole state? The entire state backstabbed you, including the people who caucused for Clinton?
Wackaloons.
By Kathy on Jun 11, 2008 2:19 pm |
Prove to me that there is a list and I will agree that it serves no purpose. You, however, fail to prove that such a thing exists. Instead, you again jump on the bandwagon of hate toward the Clintons. Shame on you.
By anniesgirl on Jun 11, 2008 8:20 pm |
scory said
Brilliant.
Love the link: I probably will never use it, but it’s nice to know that it’s there: a family, personal thing.