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The only aspect of failing Presidential campaigns of the Democratic party that is interesting is their latest plea to their own national committee and the desperate strategy to blame their failures on someone else. It is understandable from a political perspective that there would be a typical complaint that the opposition party is responsible for your failure. But to blame your party for your failures is another pathetic failure to admit your own mistakes.

If you are a Democrat and you bought into your party’s strategy to use surrender in Iraq as the focal point for your Presidential bid you have no one to blame but yourself. Or perhaps you would like to include the US Military in your complaining for not losing. The success of the troop surge that the Dems have criticized from its announcement becomes difficult to oppose but that has not stopped Bill Richardson from doing so.

His complaints against his own party begin with reaffirming his position to surrender in Iraq. It is followed by an appeal to the NEA calling for abandoning NCLB and spending more tax dollars on health insurance. While his criticism of the debates on executive power and interrogation techniques draw unsupported conclusions to mimic the left’s ideology and is again to be expected, his belief we are ’slipping into recession’ is also not supported by facts. Simply using the definition of recession as two or more quarters of falling GDP, his statement might have been acceptable in 2006 but not in 2007. The second and third quarters of 2006 were consecutive decreases followed by a fourth quarter increase. No such experience occurred in 2007. The economy is currently growing at an annual rate of 4.9%.

John Edwards provided the most entertaining criticism while making his plea to the party for his failure. He predictably continued his ‘two Americas’ argument and the entertaining part was his description of Washington insiders as ‘the powerful, well-connected and the very wealthy.’ It can be argued that John Edwards is not powerful or well-connected outside of the trial lawyers association but he is certainly very wealthy if you exclude the Forbes 400.

Aside from blaming both major parties for problems in Washington, Edwards critique offered nothing new.

Barack Obama’s plea to the party for his contribution to failure seeks recruiting independents and ‘disaffected’ Republicans and then blames election losses on the system. Apparently he views his competitor, Clinton, as a failure waiting to happen that will favor the opposition party. But what takes the cake is his attributing election losses to ‘electoral maps’ that sounds like another call for redistricting if you don’t like the outcome.

None of the Democrats support the troops as indicated by the unanimous and continuous call for surrender even in the face of a successful troop surge and related developments in Iraq and the Middle East in general. They missed a golden opportunity to win over the independents and Republicans Obama mentioned by not casually admitting the surrender strategy mistake and climbing onboard for victory in Iraq.

The absence of Hillary Rodham Clinton at the affair is another indication she is using recent news stories about the hostage incident at one of her campaign offices for political gain. The media again offered their help to the Queen of Cringe by calling her response to the incident as ‘calm.’ Oh please, was she in the room with the intruder? No, the media saw an opportunity to help out HRC just like CNN did with the GOP debate last week. And HRC will take every opportunity to scam the public.

The campaign talk most often uttered by Democratic party candidates is spending. The GOP has spent too much which the Dems are eager to point out. But that is not stopping HRC from offering $50 to the evangelicals to fight AIDS in exchange for their votes. Obama offered billions to the NEA earlier this year. Richardson is onboard with that and spending more on health insurance as he stated above. And Edwards can’t find enough targets to spend money on, your money.

Finally, Biden, Dodd and Kucinich were mostly predictable. This time Kucinich failed to entertain and Biden merely repeated his worn out and only available campaign statement of being electable. Dodd may be borrowing from the Clinton strategy of not showing up.

Dems fault own party in pitch to leaders
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WriterSat Dec 1, 6:42 AM ET

Democratic presidential candidates faulted their own party as well as assailing Republicans as they pitched their candidacies to the staunchest of Democrats on Friday.

Bill Richardson, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich addressed officials who make up the Democratic National Committee, their last opportunity to speak to such a gathering before the first presidential voting begins in January. Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled to speak, too, but canceled after a man took hostages at her office in Rochester, N.H.

Richardson did not go easy on the party, assailing the Democratic-controlled Congress for its failure to accomplish more and calling on the party to win back people’s confidence.

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