Roxxxanne wrote:sozobe wrote:Roxxxanne, seriously, "nimh" and "political neophyte" don't belong in the same sentence. (Unless the sentence is "I pity the political neophyte who tangles with nimh...")
Butrflynet, cool about stuff happening in Wyoming, thanks for the pointers.
Meanwhile, this heightened attack mode thing makes me nervous. I get it -- show that he can fight back, etc. But it's dangerous.
Everything is relative. You weren't even aware of what is going on in Pennsylvania with Ed Rendell. To someone who has been involved in AMERICAN political campaigns for forty years and THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, nimh is a neophyte.
I suppose "neophyte" in this context means one who is inexperienced and relatively ignorant. Everyone is ignorant of many things in this world, including some aspects of subjects they otherwise know very well. I don't think that any of the posters here can claim to know EVERYTHING about Obama, Democrat party politics or any of the stuff being explored here. My iimpression in general is that no one is as limited by his/her ignorance as those who will not see or acknowledge it; and no one is as able to learn as those who value curiosity over pretense and willingly acknowledge what they don't know. I think that Nimh does far better by this standard than does his critic here.
In Texas one becomes a Democrat, eligible to vote and caucus in their primaries, merely by choosing to do so. Other states have different rules. Claims of exclusivity to "members" are generally meaningless - even when accompanied by crude epithets.
Not all experience has the same value. Forty years experience in biannual political campaigns at the local level is really just three months' experience twenty times. If one doesn't understand this, then his/her claim to expertise is, at best, suspect.
) It's a long one, lays out how the grassroots groups organized themselves into a campaign for Obama.
