Here's what I just posted at culturekitchen (because great minds think alike)

Time to call out the Fauxminists and Democrats for McCain
http://culturekitchen.com/node/12448

And just to give you an idea of where am going with it :

Enjoy!

Blogueando @ culturekitchen.com

The real problem is that it isn't even an analogy at all. That story about the "smooth-as-silk" guy at the party is a perfect vignette of an experience that almost everyone has probably had at one time or another, and which is deeply felt. One can understand why the writer is so -- I won't say "obsessed" by it, but anyway, needing to express the scene. What I don't see is what it has to do with Obama.
     In other words, people who think of Obama that way, do so for reasons that have nothing to do with Obama. I mean, he's running for president for Christ's sake, it's not about having a date with him.

There's absolutely no one who believed in what Clinton espoused who could vote for Obama, even if drugged, drunk or drug to the polls. Anyone who claimed it was true would be a liar or hypocrite.

Michaela

a.) undermine Obama if he wins - What they are doing now
b.) Influence Hillary away from a more populist message and ensure the interests of cosmo sipping manolo wearing women and their boyfriends in finance are well represented
c.) Provide ammunition for McCain and the R's about nasty powerful, uppity women during a general election against Hillary

1.) It's  very interesting that two of the women profiled are both self-described independents.  Which make the comments about Dean completely irrelevant. They're not democrats. They don't get a vote for party chair!
2.) Diane Mantouvalos is a PR Consulant. If you go to the HireHeels web site it mentions a number of recent media calls from cable and broadcast news organizations

And they are running a campaign. It's a Mandy Grunwald type corporate campaign for a candidate - but its a campaign.

Obama and Dean's campaigns are movement based.  That's what they don't get. You can astro-turf a campaign or a candidate, but you can't astro-turf a movement.

I'll buy the beer if someone comes up with proof of this.  But I know, I just know...

As to the attempted analogy, um, wasn't their date with Hillary, not Obama? That might explain a lot.

BTW, I admit there was a lot of Hillary bashing from the Obama camp (and vice versa), but I honestly don't recall any Obama fans saying, before or after the end of the primary, that they'd vote for McCain if/because Obama lost out to Hillary. Some said they wouldn't vote, wouldn't work, might vote for the Libs or somebody, but I don't think there was a single vow that I saw to vote for McCain. You? Anyway, Hillary deserves much better supporters than these whiny Sex and the City wannabes.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

"To anyone who voted for me and is now considering not voting or voting for Sen. (John) McCain, I strongly urge you to reconsider," said Clinton, beseeching her supporters to join with Obama's "to create an unstoppable force for change we can all believe in."

someone get that puma into detox.

the revolution will not be televised...

What goes around comes around.

They simply wanted a woman as president. Which particular woman was irrelevant, any woman will do. Her positions on issues don't matter. They'd just as happily vote for Condoleeza Rice as Hillary Clinton. It is total, unabashed identity politics.

Because they want to vicariously stick it to the Bad Boys who stand them up for dates - and beat them out for jobs and advancement. In this they have a legitimate complaint. But these aren't working class women, they're well-to-do professionals. They want to see a woman in the Ultimate CEO Job, because that's their world and that's how worth is measured in it.

They even blogged about campaigning for Hillary to speak at the convention to try to turn all the super delegate's votes to her. Hillary's own wishes or desire to make such a speech seem to be irrelevant.

Here's the thing: the super double-secret plan is, of course, to undermine Obama's campaign so he'll lose the election and then Hillary can run in 2012. But what they fail to realize is if they do that, and Obama fails - and their fingerprints are on it - they have just turned themselves into political kryptonite.

If they're perceived as having undermined the Democratic party apparatus in the previous election, for whatever cause, there is absolutely no reason why the party would be beholden to them for anything. They do not have the numbers to storm the gates - as Booman points out, they really aren't a movement. So they need a party apparatus, and they won't be allowed anywhere near it.

This is nothing but a desperate tilting at windmills.

I keep wondering how long this particular divisive campaign will run. It seems pretty much without traction. Gee, they tried the gay cocaine guy, they marched out the angry black preacher. What's left?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/01/8025/

There's much that I disagree with in Wayne Barrett's account but I don't think it's necessary to correct the record at this point. What's interesting about this issue is that there was a conspiracy -- of sorts -- and it was by the Clinton campaign. The "coup against Dean," as I've referred to it, began a week after the 2006 election, and it involved an attempt to replace Dean as head of the DNC and was lead by Clinton supporters Carville and Begala.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/berman/single

..Democratic strategist James Carville, another prominent Clintonite, labeled the DNC leadership "Rumsfeldian in its competence," and called on Dean to resign. He floated the name of Harold Ford Jr., now chair of the right-leaning Democratic Leadership Council, as a replacement. There was rampant speculation inside the Beltway that Carville wasn't offering an unsolicited opinion but rather carrying water for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Attacking Dean at this point only serves as a reminder of the earlier coup. It's hard not to wonder what the intent behind that attempted coup was, and the obvious implication is that Clinton campaign was trying to stack the deck by producing a compliant DNC to pave the way for her Presidential run.

Moreover, much of the Clinton campaign's strategy regarding Florida and Michigan smells. Although I don't believe that her campaign had a hand in moving those primaries into the pre-window period, I've always regarded the Clinton strategy to agree to the sanctions against FL and MI and then insist that they count as the most damning indictment against her character. And this is why I now suspect that the coup against Dean was truly malevolent in character.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=2&docID=news-000002884518

Contrary to the familiar view that her argument for counting Michigan and Florida is a tactic of last-minute desperation, Clinton's reliance on counting both the delegates and the popular vote from both states was integral to her long-term vision of her possible electoral path to the nomination. It is -- and has been for months -- her Ace in the Hole. Hers is not a late campaign conversion or a post hoc, unplanned maneuver.

I suppose one could say that the voters conspired to elect Obama rather than Clinton, but that's how the democratic process is supposed to work.

"If [we] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" - W.I.Thomas