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Blogosphere: We need Kos like we need a hole in the head.

by: MsGeek703

Mon Aug 07, 2006 at 11:00:00 AM PDT


Ever since the primary, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, aka Kos, has been talking down the chances of one Phil Angelides for Governor. He was pro Westly during the primary and now he seems to be happy to talk down Angelides' chances at every turn.

We don't need your pessimism, Kos.

More after the flip.

MsGeek703 :: Blogosphere: We need Kos like we need a hole in the head.
This is my official resignation from Daily Kos, a move which I have been pondering for months. I post as "MamasGun" on Daily Kos.

For the past couple of months, I have been cut off from my Trusted User status on Daily Kos, just in time for a big wave of troll diaries and pie fighting over the Lamont/Lieberman primary. I thought this was an accident of the new website interface, which is a ponderous monstrosity that uses tons and tons of AJAX. When Google does AJAX, they do it with grace and in a way that doesn't weigh down FireFox. However, when Kos does AJAX, it becomes a crashy thing that crashes FireFox quite often.

However, I am not so sure now that it was an accident that left me without my "Mojo." Since I have yet to get my "Mojo" back after two months of losing it, never mind that I have had many double-digit rated posts in the past two months, I am beginning to suspect that I had my Trusted User status taken away from me by Kos himself because I had the guts to call him on first his support for Westly in the primary and then his consistent anti-Angelides tone since the primary.

What does he want to do? Does he want Arnold for four more lousy years? What is his freakin' problem?

If Kos put as much energy into cheerleading for Angelides as he does for cheerleading for Ned Lamont, Angelides would have all the "big mo" he could use. Instead, he brays, Eeyore-stylee, that Angelides doesn't have a chance against the steamroller that is Herr Ah-nuld der Gropenfuhrer.

Thing is, last time I checked, Kos is a Californian, not a Connecticut-person. What are residents of Connecticut called? Connecticut Yankees? See, I'm Californian, second generation Californian even, I don't know. Anyway, Kos is from California. The Angelides/Schwarzenegger race is in his own freaking back yard.

I don't want Ah-nuld's signature on my Masters of Social Work when I get my Masters in hopefully 3 years. I am freaking tired of his face and his attitude. I want that bastard OUT OF OFFICE. I would really like to see him drummed out of the state and sent back to Austria where he belongs with his goose-stepping Nazi-nostalgic buddies like former UN Secretary/Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim.

If Angelides loses, and Ah-nuld gets 4 more years to play Fuhrer here, the best goddamn role the hack's ever gotten, then there will be more than enough blame to go around. I am not saying that Kos will be even an important person to blame for the failure: the way the campaign is going Angelides will have more than enough people on his staff to blame. But as the old '60s saying goes, you are either part of the SOLUTION or part of the PROBLEM. And Kos is part of the PROBLEM right now.

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he's not part of the problem, he's part of the scenery. (0.00 / 0)
but I agree his total lack of interest about the governorship of his own state is absolutely alarming!

The only time he ever seems to chime in is to talk about how he was right that negative ads would be used in the general.

big whoop, as if that takes a lot of foresight to figure out.

please!

I don't think he was a Westly supporter, by his own admission he only started paying attention a few weeks before the primary.

pathetic.

-C.

I live in Oakland and I like talking about politics. Who'd have thunk I'd be writing here?!


Yes I think that any blogger should accept comments good or bad, but..... (0.00 / 0)
I think it is wrong for a said Progressive to close his blog to other Progressive just because they don't agree with said blogger.  I don't post at that site because they make it a big approval process and it take too long.  I don't agree with the way Kos has not covered the voting fraud either.
But...as with the California governor's race I think the democratic party could have done better.
I live in southern Cal and I watched this DNC in action back during the special election.  I worked really hard trying to get the vote out, I had to watch my distribution of "NoOnProp73" fliers with the Union workers, and I had to watch the DNC people bossing everyone around.  I didn't see them getting their hands dirty and I didn't see them walking the precincts.  I know that is a general statement, but there are alot of people in these old political groups that are looking for a badge or think they are Generals. 
I just wish that we would recognize that we live in a state that people want to be woowed by their candidate.  They want the Celebraties.  Simple minded people in California too.
So, Phil and his realities are boring to them and they play right into the propaganda "Negatives" the Repukes are putting out there about Dems.
Lets get the people to understand that it is not about Phil, but it is about "Arnold doesn't have the brains to run this state, or the interest in the people needs."  Get the DNC to start supporting more local voices, get Phil out there kissing the babies, helping in Cancer fundraising, Get the Representatives(Boxer, Maxine, Henry Waxman, Pelosi, etc...) to go to districts and hold TownHall meetings.  Ask the people what they want, ask them what they think about Phil, and give them information to debunk propaganda they have heard about Phil. 
Like how so many Californians think Phil will raise their taxes, or that raising taxes on the very wealthest of our state will cause them to leave this state, especially business.  Get the Representatives back in touch with the people.
We need to see more "Baby Kissing".

The people may cast their votes, but what is important is who counts the votes.

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Part of the problem is media coverage. (0.00 / 0)
Phil has been out meeting people.  He's particularly been focusing on healthcare issues, the last month or so -- appearing at public clinics that serve poor-to-working-class whites and Latinos, spending a LOT of time in the Central Valley discussing both direct healthcare issues and indirect ones like how pollution contributes to them.

The thing is, Phil can make three appearances a day, keeping a schedule that would run a lesser man ragged, and never get a word into the LATimes or SF Chronicle.  Arnie can poke his head up and say "boo", and the sycophants turn out in droves, hoping to be blessed by the grace of the Movie Star.  It's really quite disgusting.

RM 'Auros' Harman
Delegate, A.D. 21, CA Dem State Central Committee
Treasurer, CADem Business and Professional Caucus
Board Member, Peninsula Democratic Coalition and Peninsula Young Dems


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As a matter of fact, when I asked Kos in person... (0.00 / 0)
...at one of his book-signing events, a week or three before the Cal Dem Convention, he said he was for Angelides but didn't hate Westly.  Unfortunately, he gave up on both candidates because of the mud-slinging.  (He wrote a rather nasty post in which he "washed his hands of both of them", or something to that effect.)

RM 'Auros' Harman
Delegate, A.D. 21, CA Dem State Central Committee
Treasurer, CADem Business and Professional Caucus
Board Member, Peninsula Democratic Coalition and Peninsula Young Dems


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