What up w/ New York? Why does it attract (& reward) centrist Southern Dem politicians like Harold Ford & Hilary Clinton?
Reading the story itself (It is often, but not always, a "good idea" to read the whole thing before one starts cranking out the abuse.) we learn that former Representative Ford moved to New York from Tenn. three yrs. ago to take a job (chairman of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council) that's the very definition of a fence-straddling mugwump.
Here's The Times on our subject:
New Yorkers are unusually welcoming to political newcomers, having elected Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Senate just two years after she moved from Arkansas and Robert F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts native, in 1964.
So Ford's been in NY a yr. longer than HRC. That's OK, then.
UPDATE ('Bout a half-hr. later.): The Race Card.
a job (chairman of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council) that's the very definition of a fence-straddling mugwump.
ReplyDeleteMy definition: Corporatist sell-outs who have joined with the Republicans in destroying all but the plutocrat class in this country.
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From The Triangulation Editor:
ReplyDeleteYou cynic, you! They just want to get elected so once they're in office they can really help people.