Plunderbund's interview with Paul Hackett
On Political Courage
"But to really get to the answer, it's just a lack of courage from our elected officials, and it's misplaced hope that by avoiding tough issues that they will go away, and, it's just not going to happen. I mean, all of these tough issues, be they social or economic, or other political tough issues such as the war in Iraq are simply not going to go away, and they're not going to be solved by crafty sound bites published by Rahm Emanuel or Chuck Schumer. It ain't going to happen."
Paul Hackett
For the entire interview go HERE. Eric Vessels does a fine podcast with Paul and touches on something we here at ODP Watch are very concerned about. Arianna Huffington addresses the issue better than anyone in her latest blog entry...
"Gore isn't running for office, and already the negative campaigning has begun. This is what anyone who takes a stand faces these days -- politics as demolition derby -- and why so many politicians operate out of fear. But when I asked Gore about it, he was unfazed.
I couldn't help but flash on the stiff, robotic Gore of the 2000 campaign. You could smell the fear on the Gore of 2000. Just as you could smell it on Kerry in 2004, as he ran a campaign that consistently chose caution over boldness.
And it's the same sickening scent that Hillary Clinton is wearing today: Eau de Don't Let Me Screw Up and Flush My Chances Down the Toilette.
There she was recently -- uptight, tentative, inauthentic -- trying to throw an off-handed bone to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by implying that young people are lazy and "think work is a four-letter word." And the minute there was some blowback, she turned around and apologized to the youthful voters whose fingers she'd slammed in the Chamber of Commerce door. And even used Chelsea as a crutch to explain her turnaround.
Read her entire blog entry HERE
Paul Hackett is absolutely correct. As an example of why Democrats don't get it all one has to do is flashback four months ago when Hackett single-handedly took on the religious right by refering to them as nuts and religious extremists. What was Sherrod Brown's response? The overly cautious and careful one of course. He was "disturbed" by Hackett's comments. Disturbed? What's not to like about Paul's comments about a Religious Right that wants to violate the Constitution and apply a religious litmus test to political candidates? We found Sherrod Brown's lack of political courage on this issue very disappointing and indicative of exactly what Paul Hackett and Arianna Huffington are talking about. And still the Democrats run on fear. The fear of being pried away from their losing Republican-lite strategy. The strategy of attempting to be all things to all people. But they won't wake up from this fantasy until they lose yet again. In the meantime Ohio Democrats were treated to a fantasy where they were getting married to the prom queen, the girl of their dreams. That is, until her parents intervened, broke the engagement and substituted her ugly sister. Still want to get hitched?
"But to really get to the answer, it's just a lack of courage from our elected officials, and it's misplaced hope that by avoiding tough issues that they will go away, and, it's just not going to happen. I mean, all of these tough issues, be they social or economic, or other political tough issues such as the war in Iraq are simply not going to go away, and they're not going to be solved by crafty sound bites published by Rahm Emanuel or Chuck Schumer. It ain't going to happen."
Paul Hackett
For the entire interview go HERE. Eric Vessels does a fine podcast with Paul and touches on something we here at ODP Watch are very concerned about. Arianna Huffington addresses the issue better than anyone in her latest blog entry...
"Gore isn't running for office, and already the negative campaigning has begun. This is what anyone who takes a stand faces these days -- politics as demolition derby -- and why so many politicians operate out of fear. But when I asked Gore about it, he was unfazed.
I couldn't help but flash on the stiff, robotic Gore of the 2000 campaign. You could smell the fear on the Gore of 2000. Just as you could smell it on Kerry in 2004, as he ran a campaign that consistently chose caution over boldness.
And it's the same sickening scent that Hillary Clinton is wearing today: Eau de Don't Let Me Screw Up and Flush My Chances Down the Toilette.
There she was recently -- uptight, tentative, inauthentic -- trying to throw an off-handed bone to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by implying that young people are lazy and "think work is a four-letter word." And the minute there was some blowback, she turned around and apologized to the youthful voters whose fingers she'd slammed in the Chamber of Commerce door. And even used Chelsea as a crutch to explain her turnaround.
Read her entire blog entry HERE
Paul Hackett is absolutely correct. As an example of why Democrats don't get it all one has to do is flashback four months ago when Hackett single-handedly took on the religious right by refering to them as nuts and religious extremists. What was Sherrod Brown's response? The overly cautious and careful one of course. He was "disturbed" by Hackett's comments. Disturbed? What's not to like about Paul's comments about a Religious Right that wants to violate the Constitution and apply a religious litmus test to political candidates? We found Sherrod Brown's lack of political courage on this issue very disappointing and indicative of exactly what Paul Hackett and Arianna Huffington are talking about. And still the Democrats run on fear. The fear of being pried away from their losing Republican-lite strategy. The strategy of attempting to be all things to all people. But they won't wake up from this fantasy until they lose yet again. In the meantime Ohio Democrats were treated to a fantasy where they were getting married to the prom queen, the girl of their dreams. That is, until her parents intervened, broke the engagement and substituted her ugly sister. Still want to get hitched?
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