{"id":8129,"date":"2004-01-20T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T08:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/blame_game.html"},"modified":"2004-01-20T08:29:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T08:29:41","slug":"blame_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/blame_game.html","title":{"rendered":"Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is, of course, no lack of analysis about the caucusus. You’ve checked out your favorite sites already. I was very interested to read the Daily Kos weblog,<\/a> which is run by a strong Dean supporter. Their explanation? Process. The Dean people at the caucuses didn’t know what they were doing, they say. <\/p>\n

More damning, the Dean precinct captain on the floor was ineffective and diffident. I watched with amazement as a more-motivated, more-mature Edwards captain named Susan Voss (sans T-shirt, sans sideline coaches) went over to the Gephardt folks in Precinct 63, who at that point had only seven members but needed nine for viability. Susan sat down at their table, looked them in the eye, appealed to them about how Edwards is an “articulate, bright, caring person.” You can tell not only that she meant it, but that she could personalize it. She didn’t have any training, and it showed – it showed as authentic, that is.<\/p>\n

Then, with grace and aplomb, she got up and said she would make room so a guy named Arturo, from the Kucinich group (also non-viable, and hoping to move Gephardt’s people to them to achieve viability), could have his turn.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Deanies are sitting with their hands folded. They are not even talking to each other. No comity, no motivation. The precinct captain eventually comes over, unsure of what precisely to do with himself or how to speak to people. The Geppies are still sitting at the school library’s tables at the far end of the room. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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