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Virginia Campaign Humor

Riding around Virginia?s 5th District with my Congressman, embattled first-term Democrat Tom Perriello (who won by 727 votes in 2008 riding on Obama?s now tattered coattails), David Corn of Mother Jones writes:

... Perriello explains why he thinks his brand of ?conviction politics? can win over voters ... : ?I don?t see the dividing line as liberal versus conservative. It?s populist versus corporatist. If we?re not standing up to the most powerful interests, where is the Democratic Party?? Perriello acknowledges that some in the conservative district may judge him harshly based on his votes for health care, cap and trade, and the stimulus.

Well, yes. I?d say that considerably more than ?some? do, but we?ll see.

Presumably as an example of his own standing up to powerful interests,

Perriello notes, ?I?ve been incredibly critical of [White House economic adviser] Lawrence Summers as someone who wouldn?t know anyone making less than six figures, unless that person was driving him around.?

Among other things, what?s sad here is that I don?t think either Corn or Perriello was actually trying to be funny.

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).