OT - Does anybody know what happened to The Field and Al Giordano.?

[Mass]

After Obama's victory earlier this month, the link on RuralVotes.com disappeared totally. I was wondering if somebody knew what happened, and whether there was a link to his archives?

And I got my explanation by googling. Here is Al Giordano's new blog, for whoever is interested.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/

[beachmom]

1. Did you read his whole story? He is in Mass. & you could say

the same forces that in part put Ed O'Reilly on the ballot at the Mass. convention got Al censored and essentially kicked off Rural Votes:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/lessons-is-a-seven-letter-word

("She" is Deb Kozikowski, who runs Rural Votes)

I was struck that, when speaking about that individual, she wrote:

It was the reaction from San Fran that made it clear the immediate solution. It's a sensitive phase this month, though HRC says she's out many of her people are festering ... last night at state party mtg Cranky Women for Hillary were hanging hopes on a disaster to bring her back -- and these are party people talking openly.

I had to wonder what the worry was: Could it be that in the week when that same State Democratic Committee Meeting in Massachusetts purged Democratic National Committeewoman (and my old friend) Mardee Xifaras in part as revenge for her having supported Barack Obama for president, that Ms. Kozikowski, vice chair of that committee, was suddenly worried about her own fate and continued position as vice chair of that group? If those people are upset with the famously polite Mardee X, they must be really angry with me. Was my freedom of speech being offered up in ritual human sacrifice to the gods she calls “Cranky Women for Hillary” by someone trying to save her own hide?

He is referring to this:

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080526/NEWS/805260334/1018/OPINION

Attorney Margaret "MarDee" Xifaras has been ousted after 28 years from the state's delegation to the Democratic National Committee by what one supporter describes as "hard-core Hillary feminists" upset with her endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president in a state that went for Sen. Clinton.

The removal of the tireless campaigner from Marion came last weekend when the Democratic State Committee met in Dorchester to vote on the appointment of two men and two women to four-year terms on the national panel.

He said the "hard-core Hillary feminist" sentiment combined with a mood of anti-incumbency at the meeting, a trend he felt personally when Acushnet voters dealt him a narrow loss of his job as town clerk this spring.

"Let me put it this way," he said. "Among the Clinton supporters there was a sort of unwritten word that went out that said we elect our own, and the collateral damage on that was we don't vote Xifaras."

He said that state Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, and former Sen. Lois G. Pines were at the meeting and "have been very outspoken, each of them, about women who have not been supporting Hillary Clinton."

...

"I'm not sure to what degree MarDee worked the membership to seek their support, but there was no question a lot of people were very upset about her inability to support Hillary Clinton," Mrs. Pines said.

After reading stuff like the above, I think it is a downright miracle that Kerry only had 22% vote for his opponent. Bizarre happenings in Massachusetts, that's for sure.

[karynnj]

2. Wow

I love Giordano's posts and not only because I usually agree. He does a wonderful job explaining why he thinks as he does and I love the language. Here what could be better than "Was my freedom of speech being offered up in ritual human sacrifice to the gods she calls “Cranky Women for Hillary” by someone trying to save her own hide?"

I agree that Kerry did great holding EOR to 22%. Kozikowski's own comment that some HRC supporters are STILL not convinced it is over shows that they are not only cranky, but delusional.

[MBS]

4. yup, cranky and delusional.

THe idea of hoping for disaster continues to give me the shivers.

[MBS]

3. yes, I also think it's a miracle it wasn't worse.

Amazing vengefulness, isn't it?

[whometense]

5. Thank you!!!

I've been so busy I missed this event, and every time I've gone to his old link found myself shunted off to their other (not very interesting) blog.

So here's a relevant quote from the new site: http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/no-more-drama

...Even more interesting to me than how millions of Americans changed the results of the primaries and caucuses is how they were changed by their participation in an electoral movement. Obama’s online fundraising and organizing advances were logical extensions of what Howard Dean, and, later, John Kerry had accomplished in 2004. That was an inevitable advance that somebody was going to make in US politics. Obama was lucky enough to have been young enough to be able to understand it and implement it in ways that his rivals did not...