DISQUS

Clueless Coolaide Drinkers I always find it so refreshing when those who have not spent years in the trenches know all the answers ...but are clueless about the basic mechanics of Iowa politics.

My guess is that you even have a good excuse on the FISA votes today. Hillary +2 Obama -2

Here's the negative "The sole goal of Obama's campaign this summer is voter registration and outreach"

Wrong... The sole purpose, as evidenced by this move, is to get HIM elected, and the rest of the candidates be damned.

There is no "WE" in this campaign.

Setting the record straight Let's get this straight. This article is fairly accurate, with the exception of Tom Henderson's clueless comment. How do I know? I am the parent of one of those staffers cast aside. The ex-Hillary people who were IDP staffers are certainly "not happy" about this move. They understood that they needed to use their contacts with the voters of Iowa, especially those Hillary loyalists, to elect Democrats from the top of the ticket to the bottom. They have been slighted because they were not Obama people, even though they had loyalty to the Iowa Democratic Party and all the down ticket candidates. Those staffers were offered jobs, but not as meaningful as the jobs they had held with the Coordinated Campaign. As a result of this move by Obama's campaign, much local and institutional knowledge and many contacts have been lost. Some of those staffers who were swept aside either gotten out of politics, or have gone elsewhere in the country to work on congressional, senatorial, or gubernatorial campaigns.

It is really interesting that the state that launched Obama on his quest for the nomination now gets short shrift. Iowa's down tickets candidates get the shaft. The state candidates who supported Obama now have to fend for themselves. If he is going to fulfill all that he has promised us, and he has promised much, he will need those down ticket candidates to support him in the legislatures. How is he going to do that if he throws them under the proverbial bus? I wonder if that is really what some of the down ticket candidates had in mind when they endorsed Obama. He and his campaign are as calculating and self-interested as any other political candidate. I guess his new kind of politics is the politics of "ME". So much for "Yes, WE can". Maybe he should have said "Yes, YOU can... without my help!"