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10.23.2007

 

Another cup of Joe

The Washington Post has an interesting piece today about old friend Joe Trippi, the campaign manager for former Gov. Howard Dean's meteoric presidential campaign of four years ago.

Trippi is now senior advisor for the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards but, says the Post, has quietly emerged as the defacto manager of the Edwards effort, adroitly burnishing Edwards' image as the outside-the-beltway candidate in the race.

The Post says Trippi's increasing influence in the Edwards camp is the result of a bond established more with Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, that with the candidate himself. Both are struggling with health issues -- cancer for her, diabetes for him -- and both have come to view this race as being a cause as much as a campaign. To read the Post piece, click here.

A lot of Dean backers from '04 blame Trippi for mismanaging the campaign and causing Dean's fall in Iowa. On the other hand, where would Dean have been without him? What do you make of Joe's taking over the controls of the Edwards campaign?

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
Edwards is a rich trial lawyer who has made millions off hedge funds and lives in million dollar homes. Lectures us about global warming, but drives SUVs, flies around the country in private jets, and lives in homes that use the electricity of a small Vermont town. In other words, a perfect democrat candidate. Good luck, Joe.
 
Wasn't Joe in charge of Shumlin's '08 campaign for Governor?
 
Troll

One who purposely and deliberately (that purpose usually being self-amusement) starts an argument in a manner which attacks others on a forum without in any way listening to the arguments proposed by his or her peers. He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) with no substance or relevence to back them up as well as straw man arguments, which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue.
 
Troll

A dumbass who makes idiotic posts in message boards newsgroups for the sole purpose of pissing people off, often lacking in intelligence. Sometimes compared to people who pass you by on the sidewalk then grab you in inappropriate places.
 
Trippi should have hung it up after Granny D got smoked in NH.
 
Troll



Purveyor of inconvenient truths that cause those in denial to go apoplectic.
 
troll1 /troʊl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[trohl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,
–verb (used with object) 1. to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
2. to sing in the manner of a round or catch.
3. to fish for or in with a moving line, working the line up or down with a rod, as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.
4. to move (the line or bait) in doing this.
5. to cause to turn round and round; roll.
6. Obsolete. to hand around, as a bowl of liquor at table.
–verb (used without object) 7. to sing with a full, rolling voice; give forth full, rolling tones.
8. to be uttered or sounded in such tones.
9. to fish by trolling.
10. to roll; turn round and round.
11. to move nimbly, as the tongue in speaking.
–noun 12. a song whose parts are sung in succession; a round.
13. the act of trolling.
14. a lure used in trolling for fish.
15. the fishing line containing the lure and hook for use in trolling.


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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME trollen to roll, stroll < MF troller to run here and there < MHG trollen walk or run with short steps]
 
troll2 /troʊl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[trohl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation,
–noun 1. (in Scandinavian folklore) any of a race of supernatural beings, sometimes conceived as giants and sometimes as dwarfs, inhabiting caves or subterranean dwellings.
2. Slang. a person who lives or sleeps in a park or under a viaduct or bridge, as a bag lady or derelict.


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[Origin: 1610–20; < ON troll demon]
 
People are urged to run all the time; its not uncommon--some with far less qualifications and experience than Al Gore--take Rich Tarrant for example.
It's allowed.
 
Above is a comment on the Gore draft post--not this one.
 
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