Dems picked a young candidate known as The Great Orator, who was picked in part upon expectations that he would Win the West.  

And he lost to the Republican's War Veteran (and Shill for Corporate Interests).  Plus, it was when the country was in the midst of a terrible economic depression.

They reeled us in and then really went to work.

I've always heard that sports guys weren't all that democratic.  Jock itch destroyed brain cells, no doubt.

I'm sorry I ever thought Olbermann had anything to offer.  His rantings about Bush never changed a darn thing, of course.

HUGE disgust is what I feel when she is on. I despise her more than Matthews.  I get him...he is an egotistical old misogynistic man.
Rachel is a young women.  I am guessing though that she thinks SHE, not the women before her, is the reason she is successful.

There is a difference between finding commonality with a traditional political enemy when interests coincide, or compromising (as with DADT) in a way you'd really rather not just to move the goalposts a little closer to your side, and embracing the policies and goals of the other side.

Clinton did the former 2, Obama does the latter.

Today I realized that Obama is only a Democrat because he happened to be in Chicago when he started his political career.  You can't be anything else in Chicago and expect to have success, or expect help in gaining a national stage.  There are many dedicated Democrats in Chicago, but, as with any ambitious person who is already in a system with a highly dominant political structure, being a Democrat and toeing the dominant line is the only way to get ahead.  Which is the source of Obama's facility in switching his policies to fit the most politically advantageous line of the moment.

That isn't how Bill Clinton started.  Arkansas is no Chicago.  Bill is no less ambitious, but he 'grew up' politically with a dominant political environment that was not favorable to particularly liberal views.  So he pushed his state as far as it would go.  He did the same thing, largely, as President.

There will be no progressive legislation.

There might be legislation that undoes some of what Bush has done, but I'm not optimistic, since no one wants to talk about that.

The dems, btw, weren't "emboldened" after eight years of Reagan and then four more years of Bush.

There's a lass from Yorkshire who basically saw Bill and said:

"I'll make sure he's President."

She was married to Churchill's son I think and then married an American millionaire and moved to the states.  She introduced him at parties and the lecture circuit prior to his governorship and beyond--even in the UK.  She recently died of old age.

This is who I think Obama was sent by:

I just reread this from a NYT's article referenced by Media Matters:

To many, the comments echoed a building tone of disrespect that Mrs. Clinton had been expressing toward Mr. Obama -- pooh-poohing his commitment to change as merely "hoping for it," implying that her fellow United States senator was all talk. Bill Clinton took things even further, ranting against the media for not challenging the "fairy tale" that he said Mr. Obama's rise was predicated on. (He was referring specifically to the perception that Mr. Obama was totally pure in his opposition to the Iraq war.)

This infuriated prominent blacks like the Democratic operative and commentator Donna Brazile and Representative James E Clyburn of the critical primary state South Carolina, both of whom have been close to the Clintons and have remained neutral in the race. For Mr. Clinton "to go after Obama, using `fairy tale,' calling him a `kid,' as he did last week, it's an insult," Ms. Brazile said on CNN. "And I tell you, as an African- American, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing."

So Bill's remarks were "defended" in an aside and overshadowed by Brazile and Clyburn, who got to spew their crap unfettered.

Newsflash.  Evangelical outreach and the statements we've heard about abortion and such is WORSE than the DLC.

The DLC endorsed voting for FISA.  I didn't take it for granted that they would, but they did.  I looked it up.  Which is a good bit more than anyone else does when they start spouting off about the DLC.

And Al has learned that if the FCC isn't going to exercize any authority over a company like, say, comcast, then his legislation didn't have an impact that was strictly positive as well.

Nobody's saying these people are perfect.  People are just saying they're not corporatist sell out Dems.