Who else is sick of these stupid DNC e-mails?

[leyton]

I got this in my inbox:

Under Chairman Terry McAuliffe's leadership, the DNC has spent the past four years making the power of grassroots activism a top priority. Thanks to those efforts, the Democratic Party is stronger than it has ever been before.

(a bunch of stats about how much money we've raised, how many volunteers have worked for the party)

These remarkable accomplishments could not have been achieved without your tireless dedication to our party and to the enacting the strategic plans we put in place over the past four years.

One thing is certain: The gains of the past cannot be reversed. The power of the grassroots will not put back in the bottle. And the future of the Democratic Party looks stronger than ever. We all need to pull together and work together.

We want your opinion on our party's future. Use this link to give us your ideas.

I am sick of these happy we're-so-successful e-mails. I want to know the party's assessment of its failure to win the 2004 election that it should have had in the bag, its failure to create a coherent courthouse-to-White-House message, and its failure to challenge BBV. I want to know what changes are going to be made, how soon Howard Dean will become DNC chair, and how we will be approaching the second Bush term.

Anyone else sick of these?

[NV Whino]

1. Yes.

:puke:

[n2mark]

2. Yes

I am tired of them too. When they begin to accept their grassroots then I'll respond to them.

[Deja Q]

3. I am. I might send them one final albeit polite comment before

asking them to remove my name.

[Truman01]

4. me too

:puke:

[Robbien]

5. Already sent an email back to them saying

Way too little, way too late. We need new leadership. Leadership that is interested in winning and not just holding on to their place at the lobbyist trough.

[troubleinwinter]

6. They are insulting. I (unlike them) am busy right now, fighting.

[pleiku52cab]

7. Like the way they take credit for the grassroots movement ?????

I'll give them the fact that they can squeeze money from our all too few fat cat democrats, but it was the campaigns and other organizations who stirred up we 'rooters'. Got to give credit to awol too - without his administrations fascist policies, the voting fervor surely would have been much less.

[s-cubed]

8. here's a link to my angry rant to the sob

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1421840

[ShaneGR]

9. "Should have had in the bag"

It's incredibely difficult to dethrone a wartime President. In fact, it's never happened.

[Piperay]

10. Sick to death

of those crappy EMails AND the snail mail they keep sending ALWAYS with their hand out for MORE money! :mad:

[bvar22]

11. Try This:

Reply with these links.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/2004/11/002671.html

http://progressivevote.org/articles/news/pda_iraq_statement.php

[KG]

12. what bizarro world are they living in?

"Thanks to those efforts, the Democratic Party is stronger than it has ever been before."

um, last time i looked, the dem party was totally out of power, and has been for 4 years - and will be until the dem. party leadership gets a clue about what's really going on in the world.

[WLKjr]

13. I am getting one every other day now

And they have no substance. One day the democratic party will rise again, but not until the jokers who are there now leave.

[WLKjr]

15. and on top of that, here is some proof of thier bullshit

Under Chairman Terry McAuliffe's leadership, the DNC has spent the past four years making the power of grassroots activism a top priority. Thanks to those efforts, the Democratic Party is stronger than it has ever been before.



sure, right, uh-huh. Could you blow me any harder? :shrug:


The DNC and local members in Ohio wouldn't support a guy running against an incumbent rep., even though the guy beat the incumbent in one of the biggest repug counties in Ohio. Allen.

[mattclearing]

14. They take us for granted.

And they seem to believe that they are the only game in town. I have proposed making DFA the new DNC if Dean doesn't get elected.

[welshTerrier2]

16. here was my response to the DNC letter ...

i posted this yesterday but thought it was worth repeating:

i just received an email from the DNC ... it's general tone was "ain't we doing grand" ... they even included a special kudos to Terry McAuliffe ... talked about all the great grassroots organizing the DNC did ... and then they asked for my feedback ...

here were my responses to a couple of their questions:

1. How did you participate in this election?
rather than talk about the role i played, I thought I would take the opportunity to offer this feedback:

you've asked for my opinion ... that's great ... i'm sad to tell you i haven't liked much of what i've been seeing from the party since the election ... where is the loyal opposition to the un-American Patriot II? what the hell were Hillary and Shumer doing voting for that last budget bill? I read an article that the Democratic governors want to put an end to all those "northeaster liberals" and are even considering John Breaux for DNC chair ... yeah, that will fire up your base ...

i read the email you just sent me ... it talks about not being able to put the grassroots activism back in the bottle ... if the party refuses to stand up and oppose the right-wing corporate agenda, your observation will be deadly accurate ... you won't be able to put the grassroots movement back in the bottle because the bottle will have been smashed to bits ...

and where does the DNC stand on the massacre going on in Iraq? how many Democrats have spoken out to end the madness? people are dying; perhaps more than 100,000 Iraqis have died ... that's far more than the Americans lost in Vietnam ... frankly, if the party refuses to take a REAL stand on the issue instead of quibbling over bush's bungling of the invasion, I'll be looking for a more effective vehicle for my activism and my contributions than the DNC ...

there's no nice way to say this, DNC ... either the party starts talking about the corruption of the bush administration, the risk to our democracy they pose, and the selling of our government to multi-nationals, or the battle you'll be fighting will be a battle fought for something far less than the truth ...

6. How would you make it better?
i would ask the national party to tell the truth ... our government has been bought and paid for by special interests ... it no longer acts in the best interests of all its citizens ... you only need to look to Iraq and its ties to Halliburton and Bechtel, to the Medicare bill and its ties to the pharmaceutical industry and to HMO's and to bush's tax cuts for the wealthy to understand the cancer that is growing ...

i see the Republican soldiers on TV fighting like hell each and every day ... and from Democrats, boring policy wonking ... the Democratic analysis is often superior but it lacks passion and it's not effective ...

time is running out; and too many fools are looking at a "move to the right" ... the problem the party faces is not a political spectrum issue; it's about passionately fighting for the truths we believe in ... and I'm sad to say, that has just not been happening at the DNC ...

[Greylyn58]

17. Yes, I Am Too

I'm so tired of them. They talk like we just won everything and it's getting real annoying.

I've thought of removing my name from their list, but haven't done it yet.

[Aunt Anti-bush]

18. Me.

I feel bad saying so, but I'm sick of them, too. I want to be 'loyal' to the party, but they haven't been to loyal to us so I think I'm going to unsubscribe.

[knight_of_the_star]

19. Hells yes

They have to get their heads out of their collective asses and look at WHY they lost and figure WHAT has to be done to fix that. But to do that would have to admit that the past six years of DNC/DLC politics and strategy was a failure, and they can't do that.

[Bread and Circus]

20. Yes! You said it! They're a bunch of fucking losers spending our fucking

money!