Donna Brazile: Front runner par excellence

[BeyondGeography]

Is anyone else as sick of Donna Brazile as I am? Most of the pundits are hard to stomach, but no one exceeds Brazile's penchant for running with the crowd, even if it's a different crowd from the one she ran with the week or the month before.

Some reasons why I can't stand Donna Brazile:

•Kind words for Karl Rove. She's cozy with Karl, talks to him now and then, and has kind words for his political abilities.

•Overall coziness with the Pubs: Hey, for Brazile, it's all a business. She clearly enjoys the "respect" she gets from Karl and Co. Well, where does that leave us? She's supposed to be representing the Democratic point of view when she goes on TV, but when's the last time you saw Brazile take a hard stance on any matter of principle?

•The Gore endorsement: Said all the other candidates needed to think long and hard about this race the day of the Gore endorsement. Her strongly implied message: This is over.

•Exalting Edwards: Like all the other pundits, she's off the Dean bandwagon and swooning over John Edwards. On Tavis Smiley last night, she joined the growing chorus in praise of Edwards, whose candidacy she no doubt thought dead two weeks ago. That's fine, but aren't we really talking about a transparent attempt to secure a consulting contract for Donna down the road rather than a statement of belief? Come to think of it, does Donna have any beliefs?

•Current trashing of Clark: This is a trend with Dem pundits, who smell weakness and are jumping on the Kerry/Edwards bandwagon. That's all fine, but Brazile has had kind words for Clark in the past. Not so last night, when she totally dismissed him on Smiley.

She's the biggest phony on TV, which is saying an awful lot. Sorry, I can't take this woman seriously, at all.

[Catfish]

1. I don't like her and I don't respect her

- If she thinks Rove and Co. respect her, she's deluded.

- She's a chameleon, I don't know why she isn't called on her inconsistent statements.

- If any Democratic campaign even considers hiring her, they are deluded.

[dennis4868]

2. Donna is weak...

that was Gore first mistake...choosing her to run his campaign!

Any friend to karl rove is an enemy to me :-(

[library_max]

4. Man, we've got to get back to the days

when it was OK for political opponents to be friends.

I know, I know, we're not there yet. But we need to get back there. This business of politics being a blood sport of fighting to the death is killing this country.

[tom_paine]

6. Too late...

I hate to tell you this, but that will NEVER happen.

The Busheviks took the gloves off by reading from the Nazi Propaganda Playbook of demonization and dehumanization.

We will have a Civil War or a Totalitarian (perhaps like a combination of "Farenheit 451", Imperial Rome, and the Soviet Union) Police State before we get back to that.

Undoubtedly.

[library_max]

9. We are so screwed

if the only future we can see is an apocalyptic one. People who don't have a positive vision of the future, who only know what they don't want, lose every conflict every time.

[IrateCitizen]

10. Don't let tom_paine's gloom and doom get you down

Things are bleak and rosy at the same time. The rest of the world is waking up to the idea that we are all connected in various ways -- that we have to all share space on this blue, green, brown and white marble as it hurtles through space. Many people are taking steps to see that we ALL make the best of it and usher in a new dawn of cooperation, understanding, and even (dare I say it?) nonviolence.

OTOH, there are mad power grabs taking place by the wicked, drunk on their own power and arrogance. This force is clashing with the realizations of the better instincts and evolution of humanity.

I have no doubt that the forces of positivity will win out in the end. The only question is, how much damage will the forces of wickedness do during their demise? That's the scary part.

[library_max]

11. Yeah, I'm with you.

All I'm saying is that it is self-defeating for us to assume that everything is going to go to hell no matter what we do. Even if we haven't reached the point of civility and polity with our conservative counterparts (because of their own incivility and lack of ethics), we have to keep looking toward the day when we will. Eyes on the prize. So long as our opponents are our enemies, democracy isn't really working.

[lancdem]

3. Yes, I remember she was ecstatic Clark was running

I wouldn't take her seriously.

[bigtree]

5. So she doesn't like your candidate, or she said something nice about

Rove. This post is made up of what you are condemming. Critisism out of hand. Smearing a fine lady and a fine Democrat.

Donna Brazile, a senior fellow at the Academy of Leadership,
University of Maryland, was recently appointed as national chair of the Voting Rights Institute, the Democratic Party's major initiative to promote and protect the right to vote. The Voting Rights Institute was created in response to the irregularities of the 2000 election and was headed initially by former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson. Brazile is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University.

Brazile served as the campaign manager for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, making her the first African American woman ever to manage a presidential campaign. A veteran political organizer and campaign manager, Brazile is an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee and designed the Voter/Campaign Assessment Program for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - a program that has been crucial in boosting black turnout in key congressional districts. Brazile has served as chief of staff to Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia's delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, and as host/producer of "A View From the Hill" on Radio One News in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1981, Brazile served as National Student Coordinator for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee. Later, she was appointed to serve as the National Mobilization Director for the 20th anniversary commemoration of the 1963 historic March on Washington. In 1985, she served as regional director for Hands Across America. She was the National Coordinator for Housing Now in 1989. Brazile was also founder and executive director of the National Political Congress of Black Women.

Brazile is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Congressional Black Caucus Youth Award, and the National Women's Student Leadership Award. She was named one of Ebony Magazine's Outstanding Young Achievers, and Washingtonian magazine named her one of the city's "100 most powerful women." A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Brazile earned her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University.

[tom_paine]

7. I don;t have to read her bio. I see what she says and what she does

If she isn't dirctly taking money on the side from the Imperial Pay Korps and a Lucianne Goldberg-style mole, IMHO, then she is the type of weak, bringing-a-knife-to-a-gunfight Democrat who has brought us to this place by being completely oblivious to the Propoaganda Infrastructure (the greatest in all humankind) that has enveloped the Empire.

She and the Democrats were implicitly tasked with recognizing this and countering it. But she and they never even saw what hit them. Shje (and the rest) left it up to scattered internet bloggers and a few honest Media-in-Exile to connect the dots.

For that alone, for allowing a Totalitarian Sub-Media to rise unchallenegd, to supplant and parasitize and weaken the Mainstream Media without even recognizing it oracknowledging it...for that alone she and the rest of the Democratic Leaders are failures of the highest order.

And, like the German Social Democrats of 1933, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if Totalitarianism hammered the Democratic Party into the ash heap of history, or like Imperial Rome, converted as they seem to have already to an Imperial Opposition Party offering only token resistance.

[picus9]

8. She's scum especially after that line she had on JC Watts.

[Cleita]

12. I had to turn her off today.

Is she African American? Or is she a white woman who has had her head stuck up the Washington establishment's ass so long that she has emerged looking brown.