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Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 22:30:49 PM EDT
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| Brett Favre landed in Green Bay, WI, today and all indications are that he will resume his career with the Green Bay Packers starting Monday afternoon.
"But what does Brett Favre have to do with the DNC?" you all must be asking.
Well, he doesn't have much to do with it, but his situation does -- Favre retired in March, but wanted to come back in April or May, and irresponsible bigwigs in the Green Bay Packers front office stood in his way for the past month and a half (if not longer; that's when the story came to light). When this came to light, the bigwigs in Green Bay protested that they were doing all this (going with the younger Aaron Rodgers, who isn't proven) "for the good of the team" and insisted that they had the best interests of the Green Bay Packers and their fans at heart -- and that we just had to trust them that Brett Favre, the icon, the legend, the Iron Man of professional football, really wasn't the man for the job.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I believe this situation that Favre and the Packer front office is analogous to the situation Hillary Clinton now finds herself in -- and all her supporters, too, truth be told -- in where the better, much more qualified, and older person is shunted aside for the younger, much less experienced, unproven one, and in both cases are told "it's for the good of the team" (or in the case of Clinton, "it's for the best interests of the Democratic Party and the United States of America").
(Make the jump, please.) |
| LSekhmet :: Brett Favre -- and the DNC |
| We Hillary Clinton supporters have seen our candidate mocked in the media, and we've seen a younger, much less experienced and unproven candidate exalted instead. We Hillary Clinton supporters have been told all sorts of things in the media -- but we know better, just as the Packers fans know better.
I have nothing against Aaron Rodgers -- nor against Barack Obama, truth be told. I just feel they're both not ready for their respective "gigs" -- they're too young, not experienced enough, don't have the tools of the wilier and more experienced Favre or Clinton -- and that it's blindingly obvious who needs to lead the Green Bay Packers (or the nation's Democrats) into the next "season."
Granted, the Green Bay Packers front office came up with a very sour-sounding statement here:
http://www.packers.com/news/re...
The relevant quotes:
Sixteen years after Brett Favre came to the Packers, he is returning for a seventeenth season. He has had a great career with our organization and although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, Brett is coming back. We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage.
Frankly, Brett's change of mind put us in a very difficult spot. We now will revise many actions and assumptions about our long-term future, all predicated on Brett's decision last March to retire. As a result of his decision, we invested considerably in a new and different future without Brett and we were obviously moving in that direction. That's why this wasn't easy.
Now, there's been no one more adamant than the Packers over the past few months that Aaron Rodgers would be the starter (even after Favre, the Iron Man of professional football with a consecutive games started streak, with 4155 yards passing last year and a quarterback rating of 95.7 last year, indicated he wanted to come back -- mind you, he was also the runner up in the Most Valuable Player voting despite his age of 38), yet they've now had to back off as you see above -- at least in part.
No one knows what will happen now, but one thing is clear -- the national media spotlight remains on Green Bay. Other teams have called the Packers-Favre situation a "zoo" and think it's utterly ridiculous -- even those teams and players who think Favre is at fault for anything in this mess believe he deserves the chance to come back, play, and compete for the starting job.
I believe this reversal by the Green Bay Packers front office shows that public pressure can make a difference; there were several websites that sprung up in order to help fans organize their outrage, including SaveBrett.net and BringBackBrettFavre.com, just as we have more than several websites that have sprung up in order to help us organize our outrage over the DNC's atrocious decisions.
We can and must make a difference, folks; sometimes, City Hall can be fought and we can beat them. Granted, it's harder for us because mainstream media attention isn't on what we're doing, and we don't have anyone holding the DNC's feet to the fire but us -- but I believe we firmly can and must make a difference. We must turn around this horrifically bad outcome; Hillary Clinton's name must be put into nomination (I applaud the efforts of the delegates trying to get 300 people to sign the petition in order for Senator Clinton's name to be eligible to be placed in nomination), and we must have a free, fair and open convention -- unscripted, no coronation of Barack Obama -- and the DNC must be willing to backpedal, just as the Green Bay front office has done today.
Finally, I implore any delegate or superdelegate who reads this -- we, the Hillary Clinton voters, need you to understand that unity cannot and must not be achieved unless Hillary Clinton's name is put into nomination and she gets her shot to make her case to the delegates and the superdelegates one final time. If this is done, unity might be possible -- if it isn't, then woe betide the DNC.
Woe betide them indeed! |
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"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008
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