We Hardly Knew Ye. Whoever Ye Were.
By Mitch Berg
Tom Vilsack bails out of the Prez race.
Vilsack left office in January and traveled through states holding early tests of strength, but he attracted neither the attention nor the campaign cash of his top tier rivals — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards.
In the most recent financial documents, Vilsack reported raising more than $1.1 million in the last seven weeks of 2006 but only had around $396,000 cash in the bank. Some campaign finance experts contend the candidates will need $20 million by June 2007.
Vilsack’s decision still leaves a crowded field of eight Democrats dominated by Clinton, Obama and Edwards.
The best I could say about Tom Vilsack was that “he’d suck less as a president than Hillary! or Obama – but I’d be lying. Vilsack’s moderate credentials were forged.
Still, the farther left the field drifts, the better.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 am
Trust Angryclown, he was driven out by the “ballsac” factor.
Angryclown hopes both parties nominate capable people. But then Angryclown loves his country, in contrast to some evil wingnuts he could name.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:27 am
“Angryclown loves his country”
All disparaging and ill-informed remarks about flyover red states notwithstanding.
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
Angryclown does not pretend to love the idiots who populate much of his country.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
No shit.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Angryclown does not pretend to love the idiots who populate much of his country.
Mitch: “What is “compensating for his own plebeian, upstate background”, Alex?
February 23rd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
And yet Angryclown can’t help bnut return to the idyllic Midwestern blog to reinforce his own sense of Angryclownishness.
“Why can’t you quit us?”
It’s all right. It’s natural.