Obama begins to adjust; Goes on Fox
But Dem Strategist says "the problem with the Democratic Party is that they don't understand"
By Soren Dayton Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | blososphere | Democrats | FOX News Sunday | Mudcat Saunders — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Yesterday, I wrote about Barack Obama's chief strategist saying that they don't need working class voters. John Edwards' strategist Mudcat Saunders told Sam Stein at HuffPo, regarding bitter/cling-gate:
Historically, [Axelrod's point] is pretty accurate. But it is also historically accurate that the Democrats have never gone after them.
See, the thing is that the Dems "have never gone after them" because they really do look down on their voters, and that ends up cutting both ways.
I think there are an awful lot of smart people who believe in rural stereotypes. But the problem with the Democratic Party is that they don't understand...that a lot of these big city people who have stereotyped us, we have also stereotyped them. Therein lies the problem. See, that's what happened Barack Obama said that, he played into our stereotype about the big city.
It may be that Obama understands his problem and is reacting, in spite of what his strategist says. You see, he is going on Fox. And Chris Wallace explains it as Obama's strategists "realiz[ing] they need to reach working-class moderate and even conservative Democrats."
It is already driving the nutroots crazy. I think that Saunders might tell them that "they don't understand".
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These quotes should give you an idea of the mentality of the Obama supporters:
I think the American people only understand "in your face" style of politics....McCain has high percentages because he is perceived to have "fought". No one cares who he fought or why or whether it was a just war. It is obvious that the average working class American rah rahs the winner regardless of the truth or principle. Why else do we call the Iraq war a "war" and not a brutal, ruthless, "occupation" and illegal offensive war of choice, which it really is. Obama will lose unless he starts showing the working class people that he can wrestle in the mud with Hillary (and later with the GOP). This is not about race, it is about good old fashioned American values. Just give the people their flag, and give them a good fight whether real or imagined as long as they can declare "victory".
As was pointed out by a senior Dem strategist The white working class voters do not vote for democrats in November--what support he has now is more than enough!
And then were promptly ignored.
No wonder they have issues.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
oooh! Does that mean they get to fall into the bottomless pit while battling a demonic beast? My money's on the Balrog!
Dems have "...never gone after working class voters." Sure. Direct from FDR's lips to Sen. Obama's (D-McGovern) expansive ears.
Sure.