Making Mistakes
I generally don't personally watch debates between presidential candidates at every opportunity. I catch a few during the later stages of the actual campaigns, but seldom during the early primary process. There is only so much time and I already spend far too much following politics. But the debates are vitally important to the candidates. It is an opportunity for them to get their messages out to less committed political junkies who do not follow the news every day. So they have their place in the process. So it is actually somewhat amusing to watch the left go crazy over debates that have been arranged to air on Fox News. The Opinion Journal takes note of the latest batch of Democratic hopefuls who have bowed to pressure from the left and pulled out of a debate organized by the Congressional Black Caucus to air on Fox.
In the battle for control of the Democratic Party, the George Soros-MoveOn.org crowd is used to getting its way. So it's revealing to watch the consternation in those precincts to the Congressional Black Caucus decision to co-sponsor a pair of Presidential primary debates this year with Fox News.
Liberal activists are livid, to say the least, with one anti-Fox pressure group condemning the Black Caucus for "dancing with the devil." Color of Change, a coalition of black online activists, says the collaboration promulgates "bigoted, hate-filled worldviews." Markos Moulitsas, the DailyKos front man, calls the CBC "corrupt and compromised" for "doing Fox's bidding." His implication is that Black Caucus Members have somehow been bought off, though there is no evidence to support the slur. This is to say nothing of some of the more vicious blog chatter, much of it carrying racial connotations.
All of this induced Howard Dean's Democratic National Committee to announce last week that it won't "sanction" the CBC debates. John Edwards also repeated his profiles-in-courage act by announcing that he won't participate in the CBC-Fox debate. This follows last month's pander when he, the Nevada Democratic Party and Nevada Senator Harry Reid knelt before MoveOn.org demands that another scheduled primary debate co-hosted by Fox be called off. And yesterday Barack Obama bowed to the mob by declaring he also won't attend; so much for the Senator's promise to change the tenor of our politics.
What's funny here is that this debate is an opportunity to showcase the candidates to a larger potential pool of viewers and to give them a chance to gain support. But Obama and Edwards, so far, have bowed to pressure from the left and pulled out. Frankly, it doesn't speak well for the leadership potential of either of them. If they are this easily cowed by a small but loud group, why in the world should they be elected? So now they will only be seen by the faithful and not have a chance to sell themselves and their message to a wider audience.
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Blue Crab Boulevard » Making Mistakes, Part 2 — Wednesday, 11 April , 2007 @ 7:13 am
By Rightmom, Tuesday, 10 April , 2007 @ 6:17 am
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These are the same idiots who tell us to talk to our enemies Iran and Syria however are too chicken to speak to an audience in front of FOX, jackas**es.
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By syn, Tuesday, 10 April , 2007 @ 9:24 am
The Left side of the Democrat Party are always the first to trot out their token identity politics whenever it’s necessary to crush the opposition but then when they have achieved some symbol of success they’ll push the token to the back of the bus.
It’s awful the way Democrats puts identity first over people.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Tuesday, 10 April , 2007 @ 9:49 am
Considering the state of national politics, with independent and undecided voters (as opposed to died-in-the-wool members of either party) pretty much deciding which party will win the White House, it amazes me that these candidates are so willing to admit they will not buck the MoveOn/KosKids crew. Seriously, their greatest claim to wielding power is Ned Lamont’s primary win; what good did that really do?
To treat the highest ratings machine found in cable TV news as some kind of Klan outpost is not gonna sit well with many of those voters who have not already chosen sides. And slapping the CBC in the face and basically calling them a bunch of Uncle Toms in the process? Idiocy; sweet, moonbatty idiocy.