Hillary hearts Daily Kos
Never say she doesn't try; Hillary Clinton is currently running ads on Daily Kos, in an effort, presumably, to have a conversation with that community. Or, more precisely, to have a conversation at that community.
Similar ads are running on MyDD, calling on the blog's readers to stand with Hillary as she does something or other calculated not to offend anyone.
The problem with the ads is simple: they're completely lacking in empowerment for the user. If you click through, you land on a screen that allows you to do only one thing: sign up with your email (and all other fundraising-enabling info) to 'stand with Hillary' as she makes the completely uncontroversial demand for Abu Gonzalez to resign. It's basic, simple, textbook email capture.
Which is all fine and dandy, but some people expect more from a conversation than being talked at and being set up for the next fundraising pitch. In fact, that's kind of the whole point of the Progressive blogosphere - it's two-way, not one-way. Too bad Hillary just does not get that.
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will money buy her love?
Submitted by liza on 18 March 2007 - 1:44am.
and at about $500 a pop, may I add.
Strategy says "I haven't forgotten you".
Submitted by Francis L. Holland (not verified) on 18 March 2007 - 8:31am.
Hmmmm.
To please "progressives", maybe Hillary should announce that she REALLY, REALLY hates and intends to do something about global warming. Something more than the Kyoto Convention on Climate Change Protocol that was a wordwide environmental accord that Bill Clinton negotiated but that was rejected by a Republican Congress during the Clinton Administration. http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
If the Republicans had agreed to the treaty that the Clintons negotiated, then we might already be on the way to controlling global warming.
Maybe Clinton should announce that she REALLY wants national health care for America. "Progressives" believe announcements much more than they believe it when a candidate has actually worked up a plan and proposed it to Congress in the past.
Or, maybe Clinton should announce that she has a plan to end the war in Iraq. That announcement would be far more credible than our simply reflecting on Bill Clinton's successful experience ending the civil war in Bosnia. After all, ANYBODY can end a war, but it takes a real man to SAY that he knows how to end a war when he has no record of ever having done so in the past.
If Hillary would only promise us that soaring rhetoric will make the Republicans stop being greedy bastards to the core, then we might be inspired to support her. If she would only assert with confidence and conviction that "progressives" can write the entire Party Platform and the entire country will support it unquestioningly, then progressives would be inspired by her leadership rhetoric.
But there is a reason she won't promise us those things: She doesn't believe that they're true, and neither do I.
Wow, Skippy now has ads?
Submitted by Elayne Riggs (not verified) on 18 March 2007 - 11:45am.
Wow, Skippy now has ads? Dang. He was one of the last holdouts of the "no ads blog" concept. What a shame.
If you're going to choose to run ads, you have to understand you will never control their message, and you've made yourself a tool. There's no middle ground here. Either you're a tool or you're ad-free.
Well
Submitted by mole333 on 18 March 2007 - 10:17pm.
Given the time I put into this stuff, both here and on my own site, I'm happy to have an occasional check from ads. I guess if I'm a tool, I'm a pretty cheap one. Oh, yeah. As a scientist that goes without saying. My regular job is an intellectual burger flipper.
Snort.
Submitted by Michael Bouldin on 18 March 2007 - 8:29pm.
I'm vastly amused that HillaryBot Holland is now again posting on a blog featuring writers - i.e. me - that he's characterized as white supremacists.
Me, I wouldn't hang out on such a blog. But then again, I don't usually let my ass do the talking.
uh....
...she's running those same ads on skippy.
so it's not so much "that community," as, i guess, the liberal advertising network.
'cuz heaven knows, i'm no hillary fan, so she didn't target my blog out of friendly demographics.