EFFin’ Unsound

Lou Guzzo! Why have I waited this long to make fun of him (I can’t figure out how to link to a specific post, but I’m quoting the January 24th posting, and you’ll have to scroll down for it because reverse chronological order makes a lot of sense)?

I wonder if the political editors of the print and broadcast news media, the politicos at the national and local levels, and particularly the leaders of the two major political parties are aware of a most interesting pattern of thought that seems to be going on in the minds of all the men and women who have their eye on nominations for the presidency in the 2008 election.

So so many women. Seriously why doesn’t the media read minds better?

If any of them have glommed onto the “pattern of thought” but are wary of putting words to it for the press and the public, they are doing a good job of hiding it. And just what is the primary name that goes with that pattern of thought these days? It is the name of Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

This paragraph is so bizzare. People are hiding their mind reading abilities? Whatthefuck?

Of course, it is a mind game that is going on in the noggins of Democratic presidential hopefuls, and certainly not the Republicans — although I would venture the guess that the Republicans are very much aware of the role Obama is bound to play in the presidential race next year. Obama, who is clearly a staunch Liberal, has received remarkable support from political writers and broadcasters, who regard him as a glib, handsome, and strong candidate, because he has a gift for speechmaking and for just the appropriate words that have Democratic crowds applauding and cheering.

He’s bound to play a role? He might play a role. He’s an exciting candidate. He gives a stemwinder that a lot of people really enjoy. He just helped get major ethics reform through the Senate. So we’ll see what that translates into, but nothing is a given this far out.

Some Democrat presidential hopefuls have even dared to picture the black senator as something of a novice and a political menace. They don’t mean it, of course, but they don’t want him stealing their thunder and waltzing to the nomination at the Republican convention in 2008.

Dear Lou Guzzo,

It’s called the Democratic Party, and you sound like an asshole.

Love Carl Ballard

PS twice in two days, are the Republicans stepping up the crazy or what?

However — and this is crucial to the “pattern of thought” idea — they may fear him as a political opponent for the nomination, but they would love to have him as their vice presidential running mate in the 2008 race. That’s it, simply and clearly; they’re afraid of him on one hand, but they would love to have him as their No. 2 on the Democratic ticket.

Or to paraphrase they want to beat him in the primary election and have him run as vice president in the 2008 general election. Or to put it a completely different way, in 2008, first they would like to have more delegates at the convention, but then they would like those self same delegates to vote for him for the vice presidency. I don’t know why he had to put it another way.

Why? That’s an easy one to answer. They want Obama’s name alongside theirs in the race because he is a powerful personality in America’s minority communities and would probably help get the party’s presidential nominee elected next year, with a strong showing in the minority-packed states.

Look, we saw in 2004 here in Washington what happened when a Democrat takes the minority community for granted. Just the Sims write ins were enough that Gregoire would have been ahead before the recount. And the minority community in this town went more for Rossi than one would have thought. Of course whoever the nominee is they will have to work for everyone’s votes. That said, I don’t think the minority community will come out for the Republicans no matter who we nominate. Minority packed states?

I don’t think there’s any doubt that the minority vote is a powerful factor in any national election. All the Democratic hopefuls know that — and so, as a matter of fact, do all the Republican hopefuls, as well as every one of the political analysts for America’s newspapers and TV and radio stations.

All of them? Know it? For a fact?

So, having said all that, what should the Republicans do about it? I have been trying to provide that answer for a couple of decades. They should scrap all the so-so candidates in their midst as of this date and decide to nominate a man they should have chosen for the presidency back in the early 1990s, when he would have won by a landslide. He is another black man and a strong Conservative, who has served his country well all his life: Former Secretary of State and storied General, Colin Powell.

A talcum power at the UN in every pot. Because the Good Lord Knows that what the people want is one of the architects of the Iraq war!

Powell would be a shoo-in for the presidency in 2008. He is an experienced leader with an impeccable reputation and fertile mind. And — now hear this — he would unite the nation as no one has been able to since the Great Depression days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The racial division that has haunted U.S. politics for decades would be eradicated in a Powell presidency. What are the Republicans waiting for?

They’re waiting for someone who wants the nomination. Also, someone who won’t have a speech in front of the U.N. where he waved fake anthrax in 100 ads between his nomination and election day. I mean those arguments might have made sense before the ‘96 election (although the racists would surely bolt the Republican party, under the guise of not supporting a pro-choice candidate, and then who would they be left with?).

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