Dem campaign chiefs to rank and file: You are whiners and bed-wetters!

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  September 17th at 11:12 AM  | 

At Politico.com, Roger Simon considers the question of whether Barack Obama could actually lose to John McCain. The article is uninteresting except for some internecine name-calling. CNN’s Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s campaign manager in 2000, accuses Democrats of “whining,” while Obama campaign manager David Plouffe scoffs that Democrats are “bed-wetting.” Context is important. These Dem strategists believe that the mindless Dem masses are frightened that | Read More »

re: Plouffe and Obama’s fundraising juggernaut

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  July 14th at 08:20 PM  | 

Moe, the figures I used in that piece were from Plouffe’s vid. I had seen you mention from time-to-time that Obama’s fundraising might not be coming up with the money they needed to validate their decision to skip matching funds, but I had no idea. Now, it makes sense to me that many of these smaller donors will decided not to give another $50 if | Read More »

David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, needs our kind of money.

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  July 14th at 12:05 PM  | 

The big news from the Obama campaign this Monday is that campaign manager David Plouffe’s surname rhymes with Puff. Magic dragons aside, Mr. Plouffe has issued a vid in which he whines that the Obama lucrative lucre juggernaut is being outspent and will probably be outspent by the McCain campaign. It is RNC cash. Plouffe – rhymes with puff — tells us that very rich | Read More »