Joe Trippi's career should be over after mismanaging Edwards' campaign

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Trippi looked like he was high tonight not like someone who represents a populist fighter. Edwards logically should have done better all along, he's had poor management.

[ursi]

1. I think he has been a problem but what do I really know?

[skipos]

2. Why don't you take over? You seem dying to help. nr

[patrice]

3. Trippi was NOT focused on the task at hand.

:(

[shireen]

4. Edwards problem is that he's a rich middle-aged white male ....

:sarcasm:

The media is so fixated on the front-runner woman candidate and the front-runner Black candidate because of the historical significance of their candidacies. It's a great human interest story. The issues are boring, so they believe. It's shallow condescending coverage which is a big disservice to voters. Unfortunately, most voters don't follow these candidates at the same depth as we do using alternative media sources, so they rely on MSM coverage in making their decisions. If Edwards isn't being covered, he's invisible to them.

It's curious .... I see a lot of support for Edwards in DU. THom Hartmann's straw polls have been overwhelmingly in favor of Edwards. None of this is scientifically-valid statistics, but I get the impression that Edwards seems to resonate with left-left-leaning people who follow the issues closely. If I had the time, I'd like to take a close look at all the candidates' policy statements and write up a quiz about their positions. It would interesting to see how the various candidate supporters score -- do they really match up with the positions of their candidates?

If I had to vote today, this lower-middle-class middle-aged Asian-Indian female would vote for the rich middle-aged white male.

[IndianaJones]

5. I can't stand that guy. nt.

[AdHocSolver]

6. Edwards is the pro-middle class, "anti-corporate" candidate. The media is right-wing corporate.

I don't understand the claim that the Edward's campaign is mismanaged. NBC is owned by General Electric. They are one of the biggest players in the military/industrial complex. The corporate media is going out of its way to derail Edwards since, of all the viable candidates, he is the least beholden to the corporations.

On the Democratic side, Clinton is the most likely to play ball with the corporations, just as hubby Bill did when he pushed through NAFTA, oversaw deregulation of the broadcast media, pushed through so-called welfare reform, and continued granting Most Favored Nation Trading status to China in spite of the fact that China was not conplying with the conditions required to receive such status.

Obama has the right ideas about what is needed to help the country, but his hands-across-the-table approach tells me that he doesn't appreciate what he would be up against in dealing with the multinational corporations.

Edwards' experience in successfully litigating for people harmed by corporations has provided him with the insight in how they operate and how he must deal with them.

Edwards would be a formidable foe in the fight to take back our country from the multinational corporations. That is why the corporate media is working hard to marginalize Edwards. The fact that he is still in the race while Richardson, Dodd, and Biden, all good candidates, have dropped out is testimony to the fact that Edwards is doing something correctly.

[xchrom]

7. there have been some interesting comments here.

but i would put them in separate camps.

yes the media has paid more attention to obama and clinton

and yes

trippi has done a bad job for edwards.