Mayor Nutter: "Plouffe should be fired for suggesting other states are important"
According to USA-Today, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter suggested that David Plouffe should be fired for writing this memo. What makes it such a firing offense? It downplays the importance of Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary. Here’s the obscenity from the memo:
Now that Mississippi is behind us, we move on to the next ten contests. The Clinton campaign would like to focus your attention only on Pennsylvania — a state in which they have already declared that they are “unbeatable.”But Pennsylvania is only one of those 10 remaining contests, each important in terms of allocating delegates and ultimately deciding who our nominee will be.
How dare David Plouffe suggest that states like Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia are, to use his vile language, “important.” I mean, is David Plouffe seriously suggesting that we should care about the people of Kentucky? Or Montana? I mean, seriously people, Montana? For shame.For those unfamiliar with Mayor Nutter, he’s the ivy-league-educated black politician with a reputation for uniting and inspiring people who used to endorse Obama, but now endorses Hillary Clinton. I’m sure that’s a testament to his independent judgment and has nothing to do with Obama’s support for Chaka Fattah, Nutter’s political rival, for mayor of Philadelphia.
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It’s really come to the point where I just tune out all this fake-outrage and dizzying spin. It would be comical if it weren’t so serious. I’m reluctant to just make blanket statements about the Clinton campaign’s collective honesty, but I really get the impression that they’re more interested in spinning, misleading, and gaming voters than they are with seriously educating us on why Clinton is a better candidate. From my perspective, there has been way more posturing than discussion lately.
From Clinton’s claims that Obama does nothing but attack her, to her “shame on you” comments, to her Wisconsin claims that Obama put out “false attack ads” (which absolutely were neither false nor attack ads), to her demands for Power’s resignation, to their claims of caucus unfairness, to their claims of debate moderator unfairness, to her claims of media bias, to her claims that Obama is “attacking” her because she supports universal health care, to Ferraro’s “they’re attacking me because I’m white” comments, I definitely get the sense that they’re pushing the “I’m a victim” meme implausibly far. To call this memo a firing offense is ridiculous. I mean that in the most literal sense of the word: it should be publicly highlighted and ridiculed.
I really want these people nowhere near the White House in 2008.
Nutter truly does live up to his name. He and Rendell are through-and-through establishment Democrats - artisans of the backdoor handshake and the 11th Hour smear. Rendell especially is a mean beast; he is a powerful fellow with many favors on his tool belt.
Nowadays, it almost seems like trench warfare from either campaign - the quiet after the Kitchen Sink offensive. I’m certain things will heat up, especially when Obama’s ground game, which is always good, starts paying off in PA poll numbers. Then we’ll begin to see some real knives being through - the kind of truth twisting we’ve come to expect from the campaign, like Wolfson whining about how the media’s not on its knees before Hillary, and how Obama’s the negative one.
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