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I don't know why I feel compelled to post about the roughly weekly e-mail missives that dribble out of the Clinton campaign - a twisted gluttony for nausea, perhaps - but they always seem to be contain something moderately scoffworthy (today included), so here we are.

What jumped out at me in today's message was Hillary's word choice when describing her strategy to win the New York primary.

Help us run a people-powered campaign by focusing our attention on recruiting organizers and volunteers in the growing roster of early-voting states, including New York.

That vacuous, syrupy modifier is one the leftwardmost of the lefty bloggers simply adore.  It saturates their writings with its quaint meaninglessness.  It's found in the title bars of their sites and the subtitles of their manifestos.  The notion that politics can be "people-powered", while a delight to alliteration enthusiasts, is a little elementary as far as mantras go.  To me, "people-powered" needs to refer to Fred Flintstone's car, a kinetic wristwatch, or the Matrix - something that at least isn't, by definition and etymological origin, necessarily powered by people.

I know what they're driving at, but Glenn Reynolds phrased the same sentiment much more aptly and artfully.

Anyway, notwithstanding Clinton's adoption of the nutroots' favorite bromide, her past insolence may not be so easily forgiven.  Her refusal to embrace unconditional surrender in Iraq with the same abandon displayed by the more loyally fringe-respecting members of the Democrat field have earned her seemingly indelible pariah status.  Read any of these at random for a representative foot-stompingly, fist-shakingly indignant anti-Clinton tantrum.

Is the throwaway inclusion of this throwaway buzzword an attempt to finally curry a little favor among the lefty blogosphere and/or the beginning of a more overt courtship?  A little further down the note, the ever linguistically adaptive Clinton does go on to dumb down her diction, so maybe she is taking aim at a more sophomoric audience.

We're so ready for the Bush/Cheney era to be over.

I know, right?  I am so over this whole administration.

Now all Hillary needs to do is to start peppering her e-mails with gratuitous profanity and she might actually start getting through.

Also of very marginal interest, I notice Clinton's "From" header has officially changed to reflect her recent decision to drop the "Rodham" again.  Off it goes to join Kerry on the lonely heap of expediently abandoned surnames.

April 19th:

May 3rd:

She does still close the note as "Hillary Rodham Clinton" though, so the name appears to be undergoing a phased withdrawal. I'm curious whether the next message from Clinton's campaign manager (all of which have come from "Patti Solis Doyle") will suddenly come from Patti Doyle.

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I don't know why I feel compelled to post about the roughly weekly e-mail missives that dribble out of the Clinton campaign - a twisted gluttony for nausea, perhaps - but they always seem to be contain something moderately scoffworthy (today included), so here we are.

What jumped out at me in today's message was Hillary's word choice when describing her strategy to win the New York primary.

Help us run a people-powered campaign by focusing our attention on recruiting organizers and volunteers in the growing roster of early-voting states, including New York.

That vacuous, syrupy modifier is one the leftwardmost of the lefty bloggers simply adore.  It saturates their writings with its quaint meaninglessness.  It's found in the title bars of their sites and the subtitles of their manifestos.  The notion that politics can be "people-powered", while a delight to alliteration enthusiasts, is a little elementary as far as mantras go.  To me, "people-powered" needs to refer to Fred Flintstone's car, a kinetic wristwatch, or the Matrix - something that at least isn't, by definition and etymological origin, necessarily powered by people.

I know what they're driving at, but Glenn Reynolds phrased the same sentiment much more aptly and artfully.

Anyway, notwithstanding Clinton's adoption of the nutroots' favorite bromide, her past insolence may not be so easily forgiven.  Her refusal to embrace unconditional surrender in Iraq with the same abandon displayed by the more loyally fringe-respecting members of the Democrat field have earned her seemingly indelible pariah status.  Read any of these at random for a representative foot-stompingly, fist-shakingly indignant anti-Clinton tantrum.

Is the throwaway inclusion of this throwaway buzzword an attempt to finally curry a little favor among the lefty blogosphere and/or the beginning of a more overt courtship?  A little further down the note, the ever linguistically adaptive Clinton does go on to dumb down her diction, so maybe she is taking aim at a more sophomoric audience.

We're so ready for the Bush/Cheney era to be over.

I know, right?  I am so over this whole administration.

Now all Hillary needs to do is to start peppering her e-mails with gratuitous profanity and she might actually start getting through.

Also of very marginal interest, I notice Clinton's "From" header has officially changed to reflect her recent decision to drop the "Rodham" again.  Off it goes to join Kerry on the lonely heap of expediently abandoned surnames.

April 19th:

May 3rd:

She does still close the note as "Hillary Rodham Clinton" though, so the name appears to be undergoing a phased withdrawal. I'm curious whether the next message from Clinton's campaign manager (all of which have come from "Patti Solis Doyle") will suddenly come from Patti Doyle.