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Crazy Interpretation Of The Day: Obama Win Is a Defeat For Daily Kos

By Big Tent Democrat

By Big Tent Democrat

Dan Gerstein, LieberMcCain Dem extraordinaire, has the funniest column I have seen in a long time. dangerstein claims that Obama's win in South Carolina is a defeat for daily kos and, as far as I can tell, a win for JOE LIEBERMAN. I kid you not:

[South Carolina] resolv[ed] the pre-eminent conflict of the party's present -- between the politics of hope and the politics of Kos. (That being the Daily Kos, the nation's most influential liberal blog and the left's poster child for partisan pugnacity.)

. . . The country got an initial taste of this tactical tussle in 2006 when the Lieberman-Lamont Senate campaign in Connecticut went national -- and an initial test of the relative merits in the general-election portion of that race (in which I was Joe Lieberman's communications director).

. . . The hope candidate [Joe Lieberman to dangerstein!] soundly beat the Kos candidate -- Kos actually taped a commercial for Lamont -- by 10 points. . . .

There you have it. Lieberman's 2006 run was a test of Obama's politics of hope. Never mind that Lieberman is no longer a Democrat or that he has endorsed McCain. Anyway, this is truly one of the funniest pieces I have ever read.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).