I have seen the enemy

[Generator]

And was surprised it was Al From. Al From is President of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), in Washington, D.C.

Was watching a panel on C-Span on my mini break this weekend.

Stared frothing at the mouth listening to him.

I said to hubby, "As we say on DU, he's been drinking the cool-aid."

Hubby said, "Are you sure he's not the one dispensing it?"

From was obsesessed with numbers. Numbers, numbers, numbers. The 1% here. The six percent there. Also was good to point out that "Frankly, we are in the miniority, in this country".

Hubby choked on that one. "No, every poll shows most people support the Democratic values." But it's good to know Al knows his place.

He had the audacity to bring up Ohio. But only in the realm of the rural districts. That's right, if we did better in the rural areas, why we could have won Ohio! Who cares about those dumb kids and poor people waiting to vote?

Appeal better to the rural and suburban voters-NEXT TIME.

Ah-a man with a mission.

As I keep saying and no will listen:

If we can just keep and count the votes in the cities, from the universtites, from all the Blacks, the Hispanics,-if we can get them to vote-they vote Democratic. If we can get their vote to count-we win.

[Warpy]

1. I've said for YEARS (and been flamed for it) that the DLC

is the biggest problem the party faces: how to neutralize them, how to get them the hell out of power. The problem is that at the center of the party, the DLC has its tentacles into everything.

Until and unless we can manage enough of a grasroots opposition to those conservative old hacks, the Democratic Party is going to continue to field good candidates and then sabotage them into losing enough of the popular vote to be vulnerable to election fraud installing the GOP opposition.

They are the PROBLEM, folks, not any sort of solution.

[ixion]

2. you've never been flamed by me for it

I agree. The DLC is playing softball to the GOP hardball, or worse.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Amen, Warpy. That is the TRUTH!

[zeemike]

8. I also agree

They sell us out every time.

[LSparkle]

3. He kept pointing to Clinton this and Clinton that ...

Get over it, Al -- we can't clone Bill Clinton and no other politician is going to be able to sell the DLC agenda that well ever again. We need to focus on making our MESSAGE compelling so that we don't need a once-in-a-lifetime force-of-nature politician like Bill Clinton in order to get a 2-term Democratic president.

[wyldwolf]

4. I cloned Bill Clinton...

..he balanced my checkbook, got me a job, ended domestic disputes in my neighborhood then made a pass at my wife! But you know, it was worth it!

[proudbluestater]

5. Wyldwolf...

Here's hoping your wife does not own a blue dress...sigh...

[LiberalAndProud]

7. LOL.

If your wife is older than my daughter, I mind less that he made a pass at her. (but i do mind)

[Razorback_Democrat]

9. Clinton was nothing but a TOOL of the right

to get NAFTA and GATT passe through a dem congress

in 94 he became less useful and by the time they were passed you saw what they did to him

I like Clinton, but at his core he was DLC all the way