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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Your first sentence was right -- you should have stopped there. It was Obama's party, and once it got him elected he did not spend his time or energy to build and maintain it. There was so much potential in O4A and it was totally squandered. We are now paying the price.
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Traditionally, yes, the view of Presidents has been that it is "their" party when they hold office, but, in reality, at all times it ought to be the party of it's members, not of any one elected official. I think we agree, though, on the lesson, which is, we can't have a President who is not paying attention to the funding and maintenance of the Party. It's just a bad idea.
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You are taking a narrow view of the fundamental corruption involved here. Seem people hire consultants because they can, and because they don't actually care a whole lot about what the party ostensibly stands for. If nothing else, this whole episode shows that Hillary's commitment to political reform was skin-deep.
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The elements I see here where I'd suggest wrongdoing is involved are not pulling in Party officers where they are supposed to be, not reporting to the full DNC body when they're supposed to, and cutting deals with candidates that aren't being vetted by the officers in particular. Those seem like pretty clear allegations of wrongdoing. What I don't see here (and it may be this is a "yet") is an allegation that someone improperly profited by this - this looks more like a power game than a money game.
Ultimately, fixing the party is going to be on the DNC members, the state parties, and the key elected officials, because they're what we've got. Want to run for DNC?
