Spin Cycle

Excuse me. Who could think that Teresa Vilmain back on the trail for Hillary is a good idea? The Clinton campaign (coaxed?) her to run Wisconsin. This decision is a perfect storm of a really bad idea.

Did anyone notice that Vilmain lost Iowa for Hillary, while she gave us Iowans a campaign that started with Hillary as frontrunner, spent more money than any other candidate, and couldn't even get Hillary to half of the counties? The race that Vilmain ran in Iowa was elitist and arrogant, protecting Hillary from both voter and media questions while expertly staging events.

Well, politics is perception but it isn't totally theater. And Iowa can tell the difference between real and staged. So add Hillary's campaign to the list of Vilmain's failures, e.g., Vilmain has a long record of doing her candidates no favors.

It was she and John Sasso who flacked the dirty story about Biden in 1988, resulting in Biden dropping out and Sasso being fired. That left Vilmain standing ... while the campaign she finished off lurched her candidate Dukakis into a distant third place. Well, Dukakis may have held up the bronze but in Iowa, we still know the difference between winning and losing, and distant third place is a big loss.

More recently, we Iowans have had to suffer Teresa's work repeatedly -- Hillary's well-deserved third place; and Governor Vilsack's race for president ... remember? first in/first out and with Vilmain's advice, the campaign burned through heaps of money ... all wasted by setting up campaigns in multi-states when it was still a year out before either Iowa's Caucuses or New Hampshire's primary.

Looking back just a bit more, it was also Vilmain that ran the worst voter outreach/GOTV program (for John Kerry) that we Democrats have suffered through in decades. Simply awful. For Iowa, her GOTV program resulted in our going Republican for the first time since 1984.

Simply awful -- that Vilmain taking over Wisconsin could be seen as a good idea. "Campaign coaxed her" ... Indeed! Just what are they smoking at Hillary's national campaign hdqts?

Barack Obama is the one who spent the most money. He spent $8 million and Hillary spent $6 million.

Please get your facts right.

Ave C,
Looks like those extra $2 million were worth it.

LOL! Thar exrea 2 mil was worth it!
Obama is spending more because he has more...He has more because his supporters are behind him More.

Ladies:

Keep archiving those Obamabots heinous emails! If we have to vote for McCain to teach these jackasses how to treat women we will. Remember, we are middle-aged moderate Dems. Lose the battle, but win the war. It is better to have McCain and to teach the young men today about respecting women. At least McCain is as experienced with national security as Hillary. We cannot say that about Obama.

And, Obama should give back the house!

Unbelievable comment from "Moderate Dem." It's got to be a troll, right?

I haven't received any heinous Obamabot emails but I can't imagine they would be worth losing the presidency over. To me, its still all about Supreme Court nominations and John McCain is no friend of women in that respect. Every vote for McCain is a step closer to losing the right to chose.

Moderate Dem: While my comment is not on point with this blog, I just have to say this. As a woman, I have no idea what you are talking about. In my career as an attorney, I have faced so more overt and covert sexism from older men then I have ever witnessed or experienced from younger men. Younger men come from a generation that does not see differences between the professional capabilities of a man or a woman. They are in class together, sports together, jobs together - for god's sake, they are fighting a war together! They are working together to collectively make ends meat for their families. You are so out of touch with folks under 50 - the future of this country and, sadly, you are stuck on the past. Your sentiment reflects why Obama has gained so much support. In general, Americans realize that the past is past and it's time to move on. From fear to future. Move on, girl...let it go. Jeez.

I'm wondering what victimhood card hillary is gonna play next?? Poor underdog, poor misunderstood candidate, poor whatever

theres a reason why obama is winning and winning big. America is tired of the same old crap out of washington.

If "moderate Dem" is itching to have a President McCain, all she needs to do is keep supporting Hillary.

Moderate dem, yeah let it go!!! This election certainly isn't about women teaching men anything anymore than it is black America teaching white America anything. And I agree that most younger people get this and that more people in the older generations are still caught up in all this gender and race crap. Ever consider joining the party moderate dem?

Did anyone catch Bill' s slip asking the crowd to 'vote for him' LOL

That was funny....

Did anyone catch Bill's slip...asking the crowd to 'vote for him' LOL

Thats funny....

I would like to speak to the young woman lawyer supporting Senator Obama. I am support Senator Clinton, but my comment really has nothing to do with that. I am a woman lawyer also, age 61. I did handle discrimination and sexism constantly in my career. It was difficult but I persisted. I have two sons and a daughter. All grown and successful. My sons are not sexist and my daughter is not a rabid feminist, but is intelligent and self confident and does not even think sexism is an issue. My point here is that woman of my generation withstood the challenge and succeeded and raised our children to be tolerant and accepting. The young adults of today are a refection of that. You are living in a more tolerant society made by the individuals who sacrificed to make it that way. Hillary Clinton is one of those people. You can disagree with her, and vote for Obama. That's great, this is America. However, you should not criticize the generation who sacrificed to make your achievements and successes possible. Some day when you have experienced enough you will know what I am talking about. SK

WHN, others...this whole Obama campaign has been an epiphany for me. Make no mistake, I voted for Ron Paul...and will not vote for Obama or any democrat.

But the whole Obama movement, the idea that we can move to a world of post sexism, post-racism, is near historical already. If he wins, very historical.

I'm not hardly old enough to count myself in the old sexist wars, but at 38...I felt them. I felt them growing up. I felt them when I got divorced and 'tender years' doctrines gave my children to my ex, instead of, as we, and especially younger people know that children deserve equal support and equal TIME from both parents...anything else is cruel to children, and thats is the only way to have EQUALITY...and I will put that in bold....real equality, is for the next generation...not ours.

I love the way the Obama campaign has brought out comments from so many...criticizing the over sexist rhetoric of the Clinton campaign, and the desire to move the world to a post sexist society.

My generation, and especially younger, were never raised to believe in male priviledge...never got it. And you see that when most college graduates are women, not men.

But Clinton promised to take a look at those few areas of specialty where men still dominate, and affirmative action those away...and what, a brave new world where women go from 60% of college grades to 70 to 80 percent? Thats a good use of public funds?

Lets move to a world, where the sexes are not battling, and true equality is embraced. I applaud Obama, for at the very least, refusing to talk in those old terms, and stirring those old feelings.

I regret that so many Americans are too lazy to learn the truth and can be bought off by "buzz words," like, "she has more experience," or "he's too light on specifics." Both conclusions are patently false, for anyone who bothers to research the truth. Hillary has turned the Democratic battle into a polarized mess, by bragging that Latinos and women back her. WHO CARES??? We are all living, breathing Americans, looking for the best candidate for ALL of us. I came up with a new campaign slogan for hillary, so she won't have to borrow phrases from her opponents: Take it Hillary, it's free and won't cost your strapped campaign anything: "By hook or by crook, I am your candidate!"

Teresa Vilmain was involved in the Biden scandal? Well, history just repeated itself! The Clinton campaign is making a big deal out of Obama using a friend's words. Cooooo-incidence? I think not. Hope it backfires again.... How come the news agencies haven't picked up on this tidbit?

I heard former Virginia State Governor Douglas Wilder; Virginia's first African American governor, tell CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that he thought Bill Clinton's recent comments, injecting race into the Democratic primaries, had indeed hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances. Doug Wilder mused over Bill's self-appointed role of spokesman for African Americans. Wilder says, during Hillary's tenure as First Lady, nothing was done regarding health care. Wilder went on to say, repeated calls and visits by his staff and himself for information about the proposed Clinton health plan, to tell constituents and local business leaders, all met with stonewalling and secrecy by the Clinton White House.

Wilder went on to say, if super delegates and backroom deals usurps the will of the voter, the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention will pale by comparison to the 2008 Democratic Convention. We may never know what the Clinton health plan might have looked like, but we do know what their higher education plan looks like. However, the Clintons have had much, much more than eight long, well-paid years to effect the very changes they’re now clamoring to make. But before we turn the page and close the book: http://theseedsof9-11.com