Hmmm

From the AP:

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama is quietly planning to take over the Democratic National Committee and assemble a multistate team for the general election, the latest sign that he is putting rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nomination fight behind him.

Top Obama organizer Paul Tewes is in discussions to run the party, several Democratic officials said Tuesday.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said no final decisions have been made on general election plans and that such decisions would be premature with Obama yet to clinch the nomination.

Link from TalkLeft commenter nycstray.

Does anybody remember the 2000 election?

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From Hillary Clinton’s Kentucky victory speech:

Thank you, Kentucky. Thank you all very, very much. I am so grateful for this victory. And I am so appreciative, because tonight I am thinking about why we are all here. It is not just to win a primary, or even just to win an election; what propels us is the struggle to realize America’s promise. A nation where every child can achieve his or her God-given potential, where every man and woman has a fair chance, where we fulfill the ideals our founders pledged their lives to defend and our nation was born to uphold.

I want to say a special word this evening about someone who has spent his whole life dedicated to realizing the promise of America. Senator Ted Kennedy is one of the greatest progressive leaders in our party’s history, and one of the most effective senators in our country’s history. He’s my friend, and he’s my inspiration. More than that, he is a hero to millions of Americans whose lives he has fought to better.

I am proud to have stood side-by-side with Ted Kennedy to increase the minimum wage, to extend health insurance to millions of children, to help stop insurance companies from discriminating against the sick. But the privileges that I have had and so many others have had because of the battles we have fought side-by-side with him are just a mere handful of what he has done during his entire public service; five extraordinary decades devoted to America.

And as a lifelong champion for social justice and equality, his work has made the path easier for me, for Senator Obama, and for countless others. He has been with us for our fights and we’re with him now in his. And I know he is going to fight with all of his legendary might, supported by his wonderful wife Vicki and his entire family against this latest challenge. And we wish him well and send our thoughts and prayers to him.

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5 Comments

  • 1. Koshembos replies at 21st May 2008, 8:03 am :

    We used to call Obama-like plans: putsch. It fits well with his other trappings, the goons, the brutal language, race baiting (remember the burning of the Reichstag?), etc.

    We have Bush and now we get Obama. Do we desrve them?

  • 2. deane laczi replies at 21st May 2008, 8:20 am :

    Wow- good for Hillary. I couldn’t have been as gracious about Kennedy. (Not that I want him to have a brain tumor, either.)

  • 3. sherry replies at 21st May 2008, 10:42 am :

    Vent! Here’s a poll you all can vote in:

    http://www.cnn.com/

  • 4. Tommy replies at 21st May 2008, 11:17 am :

    Does anybody remember the 2000 election?
    Not now, sweetie, don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Obama’s doing something over here right now….

    @ Koshembos: I think it’s a poor argument to yell Nazi! Nazi! at a fellow Democrat, and one who does not even approach the violence and hatred of the actual NSDAP. Not only did we validate Godwin’s Law about as early as possible, but also it’s distorting the facts. There are no brownshirts in this political race. There are no street fights between the left and the right. To go comparing the two is a poor tactic at this point.

  • 5. sherry replies at 21st May 2008, 4:07 pm :

    Hillary has a lot of class, Deane. And for me Kennedy carries a certain aura of the Camelot days of my youth that I’ve never quite forgotten. But NYCWeboy, whose work I’ve come to admire, suggest that we might all want to come back down to earth. He’s Not Dead Yet:

    As for ghoulish speculation, I’d point out that if he does leave or pass out of his Senate seat, the real interesting question is who succeeds him. It’s likely - given the state of Massachusetts politics - that the Massachusetts delegation will be without a Kennedy for the first time in 50 plus years. Moreover, the machine-like nature of the Democrats in Mass has kept a number of perfectly strong representatives (Barney Frank being the most obvious) chafing in House seats with nowhere to go. That could be compounded if, as I suspect, Deval Patrick would leap at the opportunity to flee the State House. And it makes me wonder if John Kerry can really count on never being challenged again in a primary.

    I’m always fascinated at my Mom’s discussion of the Democratic sacred cows; she was always stinging in her disregard for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and she reminded me, pointedly, this morning, that she didn’t vote for Kennedy when he first ran for the Senate, and we lived in Boston. I think we, as Democrats, get a little doctrinaire at times about who we’re supposed to laud (and I’m not going to touch the implications in that sentence about our Civil Rights legends - draw your own conclusions). These are politicians, not Gods, we’re talking about. Of course I feel bad about Kennedy’s illness, and I hope he can be treated and do good work for many more years. But we can wait until he’s dead to make more of him than he actually was in life.

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