“He literally sat down with a yellow legal pad,” said McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, adding that Clinton told him: “Make sure, Terry, you get these talking points out to every candidate.”
It was then, McAuliffe said, that Clinton confided that he has been frustrated with the Democrats’ message.
“He is just baffled and bewildered about why there has not been a more coherent message talking about what the party has done, why we allowed ourselves to become human pinatas,” McAuliffe said. “I think he is agitated that Democrats haven’t put their best foot forward in explaining to the American public what they’ve actually done.”
We feel that pain, as we know you do, too, Dear Reader. It’s really as bad as we’ve feared since 2007. We get no joy in that. A Nation at risk, and 2 men and a yellow pad the real firewall.
Faltering Democratic institutions still coasting on inertia from 40 years ago? The coterie of Democratic alleged political professionals? Useless. Many still claiming it’s just the economy. Some even believe it.
Brand Obama, the Post-Partisan Boy King, transcendent, floating away from petty politics, serenely unengaged while the Movement took shape. Watching and waiting for 20 months. Doing nothing, flinching before News Corp or Lindsay Graham. Then helpless, routed as the Movement unleashed its long telegraphed firestorm.
Why gossip about just replacing Biden on the ticket? Of the two, Biden at least acquitted himself honorably and effectively. Do you want to spend the next 6 years defending people who can’t — or worse — won’t, fight?