"we cannot win with eggheads and African Americans"

Paul Begala on CNN.

We know you were a Clinton employee, but fuck man, you are a tad transparent this evening. I thought Donna Brazile was about to clobber him (rightfully so)

Seriously, no clue

Scientists, professors, philosophers.

An egghead is an intellectual.

She said "You have the vote of every thinking person in this country!"

Stevenson replied, "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!"

Though in this case I think it means people with an education.

Begala is saying that we can only win by pandering to "low information voters" (ie. ignorant people).

that was a very ugly way for him to say that, if that what he was saying

If so I'd love to read it.

I really didn't mean for it to come out that harshly.

:hi:

if you are, I think that's a stupid thing to say.

as someone educated in the meaning of "correlate" would know. r isn't 1, but it's well above 0.

Guess it must be old as that is what we always called the college educated bookish people. I am in my 70's.

I don't think we should take his comments too seriously. He's actually pretty even-handed, he just likes to go for the dramatic turn of phrase.

Seriously- good one!

Now that's funny.

(actually, it's just Vincent Price as the villain "Egghead" on the Batman TV show!)

Go Eggheads and AA's!!!

more or less.

The DLC and the whore media are basically trying to demonize intellectuals.

It's not the first time in history that has happened.

n/t

UGLY!

Some of the uglier O S.

Goodbye Carville, Begala, and Lanny Davis the democratic party no longer needs your service...ever again.

If nothing else, I hope this election puts the whole sorry DLC crew out to pasture.

So proud to be a moron!

After Gore it was hard to tell if she was a Repub or a Democrat but finally she gets it.

Maybe it was after Katrina that she changed.

Now hopefully she uses that vote on the winning team. :-D

Didn't I hear that she refused to talk to Tim( or one of his friends) on Sunday?
The shill kept asking about Rev. Wright and Donna and Rangel refused to discuss him,

but thanks!

but where have you been in all the threads about how uneducated voters are irrelevent.

they are just too dishonest to admit that these two elements represent the difference between democrats and republicans.

funny that.

Sweet lord CNN sucks.

climb off her stool and kick Alex Castellanos in the nuts. And he deserved it.

and telling the Republican guy that attacking Wright isn't going to have an effect in the GE

The tide is turning...

we'll tell the "eggheads and African Americans" to stay home. :eyes:

"...Don't be small, that is small..."

Stevenson's response: "That's not enough, madam: we need a majority..."

:rofl:

Actual campaign quote, 1956.

Way to insult people, Begala!

They want unity and they think it comes by insulting supporters. Jesus.

They want HRC in 2012.

:mad:

fu begala

I guess I'm an egghead, then. Because I'm not African-American.

But hey, I caucused with a lot of Obama supporters who were eggheads AND African-American. Two-fers!

:crazy:

He's not that politically tone-deaf, is he?

What a racist insult.

As an egghead, I can take the other part.

I now have even more impetus to go for my Ph.D.!!

I am proud to be AA AND an egghead!

I guess that @sshole doesn't realize the terms aren't mutually exclusive.

Derided Dean's 50-state strategy by scorning the "nose-pickers in Idaho" he was hiring. Right before Democrats upended Congress.

Dean and that African-American are costing him work, the poor dumb fucker.

:wtf:

Are they feeling pretty desperate now?

Begala for his stupid remarks and Brazile for her love of the GOP and massive incompetence in any endeavor she becomes involved in.

Even better, find a deserted island for them.

Go, Donna, GO!

yes INDEED

She's on FIRE!

they're a couple of tools too

this whole idea perpetuated by the Clinton campaign that intelligence and education are somehow bad things - that they make you "elite" and uninterested in the "common man" is just bunk.

And the entire country needs to quit it. One of the chief considerations we should be making when choosing our leaders is intelligence. I hate that it's become some sort of bad thing - the same way RWers have thrown around "liberal" like it's a bad word.

I want a president who makes me stop and think. I want one who I think is smarter than I am. (And I don't think I'm at all stupid, thanks). I want someone more intelligent, more accomplished than I am. And I'm pretty sure that lets out McCain. I know for damn sure that let out Bush!

intelligent candidate - I can't dispute that, and I wouldn't want to.

So why are they buying into the Bush crap? Why assume the posture of the towel-snapping frat boy jerk C-student? They ought to be better than that!

is false. You can find highly intelligent people in every economic level. You can find idiots in every economical level as well. My own experience tells me that the percentages are pretty much the same.

My guess would be the difference is that the educated people have a higher income, so they're less tuned in to conditions that feel threatening to the working class. In other words, their vote doesn't reflect more information-it reflects less information.

and unfair to many educated people who choose to spend their time, money and efforts helping those with less. And of course education does not always equal life experience, either. I don't think you can assume that a well-educated person would be ignorant of conditions for those in the working class.

And of course there are intelligent people lacking college or higher diplomas. But an intelligent person *will* be educated - whether self or by a learning institution. If there is natural intelligence, but no interest in developing it, then like a muscle, it will atrophy.

but McCain is actually pretty smart. However, he is probably far more likely to get the uneducated voters across the country than either HRC or Obama are.

The Base who voted Democrat in 2000 and 2004. It's Republicans crossing over. I really believe those Republicans will watch a 'Terror Alert' on Faux News the Sunday before the election . . . and rush to vote for McCain.

It's about getting The Base out to vote. Whether that jack off wants to admit it or not - at the end of the day . . . The Base is getting their way on this. Whether they are a Clinton or an Obama supporter - The Base showed up today.

If we can get people who are disgusted to come out this November AND get their votes to count - we will have the White House.

she was great!

Especially since the Democratic party has depended on the AA vote for many years.

:patriot: :nuke: :patriot: Paul Begala can suck it.

and racist stream of culture that has denigrated the institutional foundations of our democracy. Paul Begala became a Republican with that comment.

when supposed Democrats bash the people who don't have college educations and dismiss the working class as ignorant? This thread is filled with stuff that no decent liberal would ever write.

no decent person. I know a few conservatives that wouldn't even go as far as some of the people here go.

Sheesh. Isn't it obvious?

Oh Nooz! The Obama’s are pandering to the uneducated Bubba’s & BHO gets stuck on REPEAT


Guess BHO did not quite have his new pander story memorized! I am sure it went better today.


…… Sitting on a picnic bench in a park on Pagoda Street, Indianapolis, in discussion with a group of 30 supporters, he told a story about the "modest" background of himself and his wife, Michelle.

And 10 minutes later, seemingly having forgotten, he told them it all again.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/01/barackobama.hillaryclinton


…….


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/pl_nm/usa_politics_obama_michelle_dc;_ylt=AlxkjSLtTnvb5QybY0ywS3fzj9AF


Obama's wife joins push to court working class

By Caren Bohan 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - If Michelle Obama had her way, her husband Barack would be a teacher, a writer, a singer, a dancer -- anything but a politician with the chance to make history as the first black president of the United States.


She described to an audience in Indianapolis how they struggled, like any other young couple in Middle America, to raise two children and pay off debts.

and much more than I... or did you forget WHERE you two got your degrees from?

I hate this BS when it is coming from Republicans, but now OUR SIDE has internalized this crap

..as a semi-brown semi-egghead?

we win!!!

:party:

oh fgs lol.

I guess there's no way I could ever vote for Hillary, by his reasoning.
Ironically enough, he's correct.

and I am hopeful Obama will tailor his message accordingly. He has a good ear.

now he's an embarrassment to the University of Texas

or no thanks! :spank:

ass.

All Americans support Obama. Not every American, but Americans of every shape, size, age, sex, color, education and income.

REJECT and DENOUNCE this garbage.

and what Paul, the bitter is not factoring in is this..

disgusted republicans with a candidate they don't like, will sit it out..and all those wonderful NEW people..excited people that joined Obama's adventure WILL stick around..

Paul's pissed because the DLC is going to be emptied like an overflowing trash can, and the hold that the Clintons had on things is OVER..

Boy, I must be blessed! ;)

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who managed the campaign of Al Gore in the 2000 election, got into a heated back-and-forth with fellow talking heads on CNN amid discussions of Tuesday’s primary results.

Paul Begala, political consultant and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, began by saying, “Some of the commentary tonight kinda bothers me. If point is that there’s a new Democratic Party that somehow doesn’t need or want white working class people and Latinos, well count me out.

“We cannot win with eggheads and African-Americans,” Begala warned, which got an animated rise out of Brazile, yielding laughter and applause from those in CNN’s studio.

CNN host Campbell Brown chimed in, saying of Obama, “Why hasn’t he been able to (reach out to blue-collar white voters) yet?”

Responded Brazile, “Do you think that Barack Obama would be leading in the pledged votes, the delegate votes, the money, if it was simply because somehow or another black people … became the majority? Barack Obama has won the hearts and the minds of white voters as well as black and Hispanics.”

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=988

This campaign I've lost all respect for Begala and Carville - they're both asses!

I used to like him a lot.

Begala is beltway insider has been. That's why he's a HRC supporter. The country is ready for an egghead because they are now in the visceral process of what it FEELS like with a moronic fuck up in charge. It FEELS extraordinarily painful and I think the country will vote for anyone who is smart and different vs. McCain (Bush III). We could put a giraffe up and he would beat McCain handily.