Monday, December 08, 2003
Here It Is, Folks...
Time has branded them and fettered they are lodged in the room of the infinite possibilities they have ousted. But can those have been possible seeing that they never were? Or was that only possible which came to pass? Weave, weaver of the wind.
--James Joyce, Ulysses
But he better fucking be right--because I've grown, hesitantly but surely, to trust Gore's confidence in asserting his vision and his strategy.
2. You heard it here first (or maybe not): the Kerry campaign (for better or for worse) is over.
3. Please, please, please make Lieberman drop out of the race now, before he takes everybody down with him.
4. There is one wild card left: General Clark. And there are two wild card potential-endorsers left: Bill and Hillary Clinton. It will be interesting to see what (if anything) they do.
5. This kind of shit
But I fear it may be too late. Democrats are already well on their way to convincing each other (and thence everybody else) that their real strategy is a losing, not a winning, strategy.
Hey--if you all want to be sure to lose, just keep it up! Why not just save all your fucking money and start putting together a 2008 war chest now?
6. God help us.
posted by Blicero : 12/08/2003 10:42:00 PM
--James Joyce, Ulysses
Gore to Endorse Dean, Remaking Democratic Race1. In retrospect this doesn't seem surprising (especially in light of Gore's two major MoveOn.org-sponsored policy speeches in August and November--I had the pleasure of attending the former, at NYU). Dean is simply the candidate whose views and rhetoric most resemble (the new) Gore's. And maybe, the endorsement of Dean is the logical apotheosis of Gore's political self-transcendence.
Al Gore has decided to endorse Howard Dean for president, aides to the men said Monday, a move that rocked the Democratic presidential field and hastened Dr. Dean's evolution from a long-shot maverick to a leading candidate of the Democratic establishment.
But he better fucking be right--because I've grown, hesitantly but surely, to trust Gore's confidence in asserting his vision and his strategy.
2. You heard it here first (or maybe not): the Kerry campaign (for better or for worse) is over.
3. Please, please, please make Lieberman drop out of the race now, before he takes everybody down with him.
4. There is one wild card left: General Clark. And there are two wild card potential-endorsers left: Bill and Hillary Clinton. It will be interesting to see what (if anything) they do.
5. This kind of shit
One person close to General Clark suggested that Mr. Gore was supporting Dr. Dean in the calculation that Dr. Dean would lose to Mr. Bush in November, and that Mr. Gore would then enjoy the good will of Dean supporters "when he runs against Hillary Clinton in 2008."is (as Donald Rumsfeld might say) "unhelpful."
But I fear it may be too late. Democrats are already well on their way to convincing each other (and thence everybody else) that their real strategy is a losing, not a winning, strategy.
Hey--if you all want to be sure to lose, just keep it up! Why not just save all your fucking money and start putting together a 2008 war chest now?
6. God help us.
posted by Blicero : 12/08/2003 10:42:00 PM
