Centerfield

Dean and Obama vs Clinton On Party Organization?

There's an interesting article in The Nation on the new, Deaniac, bottom-up, Democratic organization, beholden to small donors, vs. the Clintonian traditional top-down view, beholden to big donors. This is an importart adjunct to the public Obama vs Clinton battle that we see and hear on our airwaves, because Obama's on Dean's side. Obama's organization looks distinctly like Dean's. The Clintons've been talking about redoing party organization, and that's added alot of bitterness about the Clinton organization and their chief strategist, Mark Penn.

For a few weeks now, I've been reading bitter posts about Mark Penn, as bad as conservative posts on the French, and not understanding what was up. Well, now I finally understand, and am with them.

And, after reading this article, I now understand how Penn came to lose his cool and start the mistteps that've probably lost the race. He's running a classic, centralized, old-style campaign, of course, and grew paranoid when it looked like his campaign would be outmaneuvered by new, Internet- based, self-organizing, campaign styles. It means Penn himself, the DC political master, must fear obsolescence. Bwahaha!

Now pending: I now have hopes of writing a full article on why the Clinton campaign lost its frontrunner status.