I am working the night shift at the DSBPI monitoring center and found this email thread I thought would be good for the blog. I guess read from the bottom up. I hope the boss doesn't can me over this.
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late night lowercase email ahead:

great call on the scream. he should have screamed again to show that he is in control of the scream. it would have turned into the tomahawk chop of politics.
now dean is being handled like al gore after the huffing/puffing debate. lot of good that did, although i guess gore did win the election.

it is really hard for senators to win the presidency. not an executive. and so much baggage with hundreds of votes to dissect. edwards seems like such a lightweight. but i guess so did w.

clark just looks insane. and why does he have those huge shoulder pads in all of his suits? is kerry the only man who knows how to get a suit custom made? i know dean is happy about his filene's basement look, but he is running for president of the us, not president of the 92nd st. Y. strike that, pres of 92nd street Y is probably some hedgefunder who has suits measured while shorting treasuries.

lieberman. nebuch. the guy is just not made for the primaries. his post NH speech "this is not a campaign, this is a cause" basically summed it up. and the shame is i agree with the guy all over the place.

also, to me it seems like the "electabilty" issue is a bit of a tautology. i won't vote for someone because they are not electable, but they are not electable because i won't vote for them.

dsb out

-----Original Message-----
From: B, Allan
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 21:40
To: 'Eitan L'; B, Daniel
Subject: RE:

Frankly, I'm puzzled by Kerry's wins in Iowa and New Hampshire. What did those voters see in him? Just the anti-Dean?

John Edward's ascendancy is remarkable. He won't be president this time around, but apparently he has the mojo. Clark never materialized. Lieberman is out of step with the party.

Did any of you see Dean's speech after New Hampshire? You could see that he was intentionally restraining himself. Trying to be toned down. I think he could have co-opted the scream and made it his trademark. Instead he desperately trying to be boring.

-----Original Message-----
From: Eitan L
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:01 PM
To: 'B, Daniel'; 'B, Allan'
Subject:


So let's talk Kerry...does he have the 'mo to take it all? The personality?

Just listened to him speak - not bad...not a huge fan of his war voting record though...he voted against '91 war, for this war and against the $87b package...I would have done the opposite: voted for '91 (relatively morally straightforward, despite Michael Moore's assertion that it was a war to reinstate a dictator, and essential for national security), voted against this war (his shtick about "I voted for the threat of force" seems a bit farfetched though I do have sympathy for the "Bush deceived us" argument) and I'd have voted for the $87b (not happy about it but we're there and now we need to stick it out).

Speaking of Bush, how come no one's harping on this whole Nigerian yellowcake business? Personally, I think that might be a borderline impeachable offense since he basically lied (certainly as much as Clinton ever did - playing fast and loose with the truth is that same as a lie for practical purposes)...do you think it's going to come back up over the course of the campaign?