But I really HATE the shameless hypocrisy of the Creative Class blogs now. Willis' post is one of the most shamelessly hypocritical I have ever seen.

""If we don't have plausible answers on the economic front, and if we appear to be condescending toward those traditions that are giving their lives some stability, then they're going to opt for at least that party that seems to be speaking to the things that...provide them with something solid to stand on."

Pols are vessels.

unfortunately, in sen. obama's case, people are starting to realize how empty this particular vessel is. in large part, due to his lack of actual on-the-job experience.

Hillary Clinton's Spiritual Adivsor Doug Coe And His Curious Admiration For Nazis And Communist Killings

Google it if you want a link because it's too long to post here.

I noted at kos and Huffington Post and several other blogs before the election of 2004 that all too many of the comments were scathingly dismissive of Republicans as Trailer Trash, Bubbas, Poor White Trash and other similar insults that many of us as Hillary supporters now hear on a regular basis. And no, not all Obama supporters are "creative class/highly educated/misogynistic elitists". Nor are all Hillary supporters "low-income/low-information, less educated racist Archie Bunkers".

That division has always been there between the Elite Democrats and the Blue-collar/Reagan/Moderate Democrats. It has just become far more evident in this election.

I'm not articulate enough to explain it but anglachel certainly is. I think this post is spot on and explains a lot about what's happening in the Democratic Party and why so many of us are feeling alienated. And that doesn't even begin to get into the misogynistic issue.

"Senator - Punjab" anyone?

Obama is an ivory tower enmeshed pol who has an affinity for eccentric spiritual advisers and whose wife seems to have a deep dislike of the country which allowed her to achieve two Ivy League degrees.

Dissonance much?

Obama said that we, as citizens, have been hearing politicians trope across our country for decades and consistently these politicians have told us "they feel our pain".  And yet, at the end of the day, our jobs continue to disappear just as fast as always.  And the very people who have jobs that cannot be outsourced preach to us about "training", as though that were a solution.

The very people who have health care provided by us, tell us that we need to search for "the best health care provider" as though we were comparing car dealers.

He's not objective, that's obvious.

clinton banishment not enough (YouTube)

by Mia T, 5.10.08

"What kind of people are the clintons?"

With that post-SC clinton-race-card rhetorical question, Bob Herbert of The New York Times nailed it. What kind of people, indeed.

It is not sufficient simply to banish the clintons, as some Democrats are now urging.

The Left is beginning to understand what some of us have always known. The clintons are woefully unfit. Dangerously self-serving. Psychopathic, actually.

Rather than simply banish the clintons, it is more important--it is critical, in fact--to revisit all the charges lodged against them, charges that the Left had dismissed out of hand. We, as a country, must understand just who those two are. We must make certain, to quote clinton administration veteran Brad DeLong, that  "Hillary Rodham Clinton is kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life."

The husband, too.  We will not survive another clinton. Indeed, we may yet not survive the first.

To make sure their reputation always precedes them, to make sure they are permanently wreathed in a miasma of horror, to keep the clinton jackboot firmly on our collective throat, the clintons never miss an opportunity to spread the rumors around themselves.

By repeating every allegation of clinton murder and mayhem--while affecting an incredulous air, of course--the clintons intimidate and silence their critics even as they marginalize the enemy. The outrageousness of the clintons' crimes, actual and apparent, will always work to the clintons' advantage, making the disabling of these flagrant psychopaths all the more challenging. But disable them we must. 'For the children.'

So, for starters, the Left must reexamine the following:

1- The 120 redacted pages of the Barrett report.

Quoting Mark Goodman, avowed liberal, registered Democrat, clinton colleague:

'An abiding theme in the redacted pages, insiders say, is the Clinton camp practice of using the IRS to punish its enemies. Mr. Clinton plainly did not leave this illegal practice behind in the Oval Office. By all accounts he has maintained a tight grip on a number of government departments and agencies, notably the Justice Department and the IRS, the folks who can deal the deadliest damage.'

2- The rape of Juanita Broaddrick by bill clinton and the threatening of her 2 weeks later by hillary.

"There's not a sex act mentioned in the book. What is important is Hillary savaging the women." (Carl Bernstein)

3- Why the clintons ignored terrorism for their entire tenure.

"Bin Laden is alive today because Mr. Clinton, Mr. Sandy Berger, and Mr. Richard Clarke refused to kill him. That's the bottom line." (Michael Scheuer, head of CIA bin Laden Division under clinton)

4- The death of Ron Brown.

Brown died in a plane crash mere days before he was to testify about clinton Commerce-Department corruption and, in an apparent touch of vengeful clinton 'inside-joke-ism,' mere days after he told clinton, "I will not go down alone."

Brown was alluding to fingering hillary clinton as the mastermind (so to speak) of the trade-mission-seats-for-campaign-cash illegal scheme.

Brown's conveniently fatal Croatia trip that wisked him out of the country post haste... and out of reach of the court system in perpetuity... was booked for Brown by the clintons immediately after he issued that warning.

Recall clinton's jubilant air at the Brown funeral-- jubilant until he spied the camera, that is.

NOTE: The call by Jesse Jackson and the Black Caucus for the required autopsy of Brown, whose head contained what a government pathologist (who voted for clinton twice, btw) said looked like a bullet hole (image), was hushed by a payoff made right under our collective nose: the clintons' Wall Street Project. The WSP yielded millions over the years for Jackson and his cronies.

5-And, oh yes, Rwanda.
(YouTube)

"[T]he object of Power's derision has just finished spending millions on TV ads implying that Obama would be responsible for the countless deaths of millions of American children sleeping at 3 a.m. Tut, tut. Nothing monstrous about that.

Power was rightfully awarded the Pulitzer for her finely written and downright horrifying book A Problem From Hell which, in macabre detail, describes the calculated indifference of the Clinton administration when 800,000 Rwandans were being systematically butchered. The red phone rang and rang and rang again. I don't know where Hillary was then. But her husband and his entire experienced foreign policy team - from the brass in the Pentagon to the congenitally feckless Secretary of State Warren Christopher - just let it ring.

And as more than one researcher has amply documented the case, the bloody paralysis of the Clinton administration in the face of the Rwandan genocide owed not at all to a lack of information, but rather to a lack of will. A reviewer of Power's book for The New York Times, perhaps summed it up best, saying that the picture of Clinton that emerges from this reading is that of an 'amoral narcissist.'"

hillary 'a monster' (Samantha Power, clinton and Genocide)

Destroying Obama (clinton legacy of lynching update)