Am I missing something? White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer when asked about the War on Women gave the above in an interview at the Netroots Nation on Friday. He is supposed to be Obama’s point man on his policy positions but I have played the segment several times and I don’t see where he answers the questions given by Daily Kos Associate Editor Kalli Joy Gray. From Wikipedia:
Netroots Nation is a political convention for American progressive political activists, originally organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, a liberal political blog. It was previously called YearlyKos. The 5th Annual Netroots Nation conference was in Las Vegass at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino July 22–25, 2010. The 2011 conference will be in Minneapolis from June 16–19.
This guy is pretty bright with magna cum laude degree from Georgetown University and has had a long relationship with Obama - White House Deputy Communications Director (January-November 2009); Communications Director for Barack Obama's transition team (November 2008 to January 2009); Deputy Communications Director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign (July 2008 to November 2008); Traveling press secretary for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign (January 2008 to July 2008) so I’m surprised when he is out gunned by Kalli Joy Gray a.k.a Angry Mouse. This should be a slam dunk with a fellow progressive but he appears to waffle on some clear cut issues.
The Obama administration seems to take the progressives for granted with the attitude that there is nowhere else for them to turn during an election. They want to be able to triangulate with the right like President Clinton on welfare while leaving their flank exposed to attacks from the left. If a third party progressive candidate for president in 2012 comes forward then they’ll have some real problems.
"The Obama administration seems to take the progressives for granted with the attitude that there is nowhere else for them to turn during an election."
ReplyDelete-Aren't they right, though? This is the tragedy of American politics: the progressives have nowhere else to turn rather than to the corrupt Democrats.
" If a third party progressive candidate for president in 2012 comes forward then they’ll have some real problems."
-What do you think this country is? Canada? :-)
Also, most white and many other guys really, really refuse to get it re sexism.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats don't dare to not be Republican, and lefties don't dare to not be Democrats.
I'd love to vote 3d party in 2012. What is less self destructive -- knuckling under to the Democrats or putting up with the conceivably yet worse things the Republicans might do?
My own position is that if the Republicans win because of potential Democratic voters going 3d party, it's not the "fault" of those traitorous voters -- but the Democrats run a big guilt trip and do a lot of fear mongering among progressives to get votes.
"Democrats don't dare to not be Republican, and lefties don't dare to not be Democrats."
ReplyDelete-Beautifully said!
I'm not really listening closely to the radio but it just said Obama has distanced himself from his earlier position in favor of gay marriage.
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