by robertdreed » Sun Oct 29, 2006 1:56 am
I moved from California to the Washington DC area last year. <br><br>Out here, you wouldn't even know there's a governor's race. As a matter of fact, the silence has been so blanketing that I started thinking that there must not be a race this year, even though I knew better. <br><br>Granted, as a rule DC only takes notice of California when there's a natural disaster, or when something "cute" or "kooky" takes place there. <br><br>( And California, in return, takes little notice of DC at all... to the credit of the place, I think. )<br><br>It's hugely disappointing to me that Phil Angelides appears to be running such a lackluster campaign. Especially because at the time when I left CA in November 2005, Shwartzenegger was definitely politically vulnerable. He had alienated everyone from the Mexican-American community to the police and firefighters unions...<br><br>who knows, maybe Angelides is taking a dive. He's definitely a Clinton Democrat...and as Sam Smith over at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://prorev.com/">prorev.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> has pointed out repeatedly, Clinton/DLC Democrats often seem intent on sabotaging the fortunes and future of their party. <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://prorev.com/partyover.htm">prorev.com/partyover.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>more <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://prorev.com/#index">prorev.com/#index</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Consider what Bill Clinton did to the party by lying under oath, refusing to simply resign and leave the office in the hands of his fellow Democrat VP, and then enlisting every Democrat loyal to him to defend his indefensible conduct in the course of dragging out that petty soap opera for two years, all the while complaining how all of the pressure from Republicans was rendering it impossible for him to advance any progressive initiatives- even executive actions. Ethical questions aside, from a purely practical political standpoint, a popular second-term president with zero chance of being successfully impeached and no impending election worries could have simply told his opposition to get stuffed...but no... <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 10/29/06 12:16 am<br></i>