Comments on: vetting the candidate: a guide http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105854 Keith Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:33:45 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105854 Usually I hate those kinds of names, but you know... Usually I hate those kinds of names, but you know…

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105770 reverendmother Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:27:56 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105770 Speaking of crime writing, Penn Gillette named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter, and I think there's something wrong with me that I actually like the name. Speaking of crime writing, Penn Gillette named his daughter Moxie Crimefighter, and I think there’s something wrong with me that I actually like the name.

]]> By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105522 Keith Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:52:30 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105522 You missed your calling. You missed your calling.

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105505 reverendmother Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:31:09 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105505 That can only mean one thing. Al Gore on the second ballot in Denver! That can only mean one thing.

Al Gore on the second ballot in Denver!

]]> By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105503 Keith Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:17:41 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105503 In the narrative, the Clinton camp's spinning of the sacrifice suddenly disappears because an unforeseen backfire is threatened. Power shifts unexpectedly at the end of the subsequent chapter, possibly with the emergence of a new and unpredictable force that will play itself out at the end of Act II, leaving the original combatants in direct confrontation on a changed field. Or something. I am a crime writer, after all. In the narrative, the Clinton camp’s spinning of the sacrifice suddenly disappears because an unforeseen backfire is threatened. Power shifts unexpectedly at the end of the subsequent chapter, possibly with the emergence of a new and unpredictable force that will play itself out at the end of Act II, leaving the original combatants in direct confrontation on a changed field.

Or something.

I am a crime writer, after all.

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105293 reverendmother Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:24 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105293 Exactly, SG. That's what he needed to say. Shouldve said it sooner. Thankfully Wright gave him the opportunity, and with a whole week before the primary. Here's what Wright said last year on PBS: <blockquote>In fact, I just shared with, I was trying to remember who it is, somebody in public life was asking me about Barack, and I said listen, Barack might be forced by the media and/or by supporters to be very absent from this church and to put distance between our church and himself. As a politician, he might be forced into that. I have not talked to him about that at all.... Q: How do you feel about that? A: I would understand. I really would. I would understand... Q: So you're willing to distance? A: Yeah. <b>I don't want to hurt him.</b> ...</blockquote> Now he's suddenly a scuzzy politician? Hell to the no. Too much credit? The man pastored an 8,000 member church. He knows his way around a microphone. In fact he's visited the White House. (The Clinton White House, cough) Look, he comes off polished, smooth and reasonable on Moyers's show, which comforts the faithful left that he's really not a wild man out to destroy America and eat our children. His Detroit speech before the NAACP is a little edgier; meanwhile the audience and interest is growing. Then he hits the press club and BAM! Don't get me wrong, the guy is also out to sell books. But I'm telling you. It is the only explanation that doesn't make a distinguished (though eccentric) fellow clergy person out to be a jen-you-wine A-hole. Exactly, SG. That’s what he needed to say. Shouldve said it sooner. Thankfully Wright gave him the opportunity, and with a whole week before the primary.

Here’s what Wright said last year on PBS:

In fact, I just shared with, I was trying to remember who it is, somebody in public life was asking me about Barack, and I said listen, Barack might be forced by the media and/or by supporters to be very absent from this church and to put distance between our church and himself. As a politician, he might be forced into that. I have not talked to him about that at all….

Q: How do you feel about that?

A: I would understand. I really would. I would understand…

Q: So you’re willing to distance?

A: Yeah. I don’t want to hurt him. …

Now he’s suddenly a scuzzy politician?

Hell to the no.

Too much credit? The man pastored an 8,000 member church. He knows his way around a microphone. In fact he’s visited the White House. (The Clinton White House, cough)

Look, he comes off polished, smooth and reasonable on Moyers’s show, which comforts the faithful left that he’s really not a wild man out to destroy America and eat our children. His Detroit speech before the NAACP is a little edgier; meanwhile the audience and interest is growing. Then he hits the press club and BAM!

Don’t get me wrong, the guy is also out to sell books. But I’m telling you. It is the only explanation that doesn’t make a distinguished (though eccentric) fellow clergy person out to be a jen-you-wine A-hole.

]]> By: saying grace http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105280 saying grace Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:30:37 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105280 I just heard this from Barak in the New York times. I couldn't agree more: "People want some help in stabilizing their lives and securing a better future for themselves and their children. And that's what we should be talking about. And the fact that Reverend Wright would think that somehow it was appropriate to command the stage, for three or four consecutive days, in the midst of this major debate, is something that not only makes me angry but also saddens me." I just heard this from Barak in the New York times. I couldn’t agree more:

“People want some help in stabilizing their lives and securing a better future for themselves and their children. And that’s what we should be talking about. And the fact that Reverend Wright would think that somehow it was appropriate to command the stage, for three or four consecutive days, in the midst of this major debate, is something that not only makes me angry but also saddens me.”

]]> By: saying grace http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105268 saying grace Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:24:28 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105268 Yikes! Is there a vast narrative conspiracy "out there?" I think you give JW way too much credit. Sacrifice himself? By becoming a Yahoo buzzy note of the day? Speaking of narrative, how about the irony of Jeremiah Wright quoting Proverbs, "It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." And he was referring to the media?? How weird this campaign is becoming. Yikes! Is there a vast narrative conspiracy “out there?” I think you give JW way too much credit. Sacrifice himself? By becoming a Yahoo buzzy note of the day?

Speaking of narrative, how about the irony of Jeremiah Wright quoting Proverbs,
“It is better to be quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” And he was referring to the media??

How weird this campaign is becoming.

]]> By: Keith http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105193 Keith Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:55:28 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105193 Yes, but the next thing that seems right narratively is the Clinton camp spins it into an underhanded, pre-arranged plot by the both of them. Yes, but the next thing that seems right narratively is the Clinton camp spins it into an underhanded, pre-arranged plot by the both of them.

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105180 reverendmother Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:48:58 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2008-04-29/vetting-the-candidate-a-guide#comment-105180 Isn't that interesting. The three people who instantly thought that (including me) are all writers. It just kinda seems right <i>narratively</i>. Isn’t that interesting. The three people who instantly thought that (including me) are all writers.

It just kinda seems right narratively.

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