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The Media-Created Myth of ‘Disunity’ Among the Democrats

By Lanny Davis
Former White House Special Counsel/FOX News Political Contributor

FOX FORUM EXCLUSIVE:

When politicians say something that turn out to be flat-out untrue, the media punditoracy expects an apology, or even worse, some type of humiliating public flogging, at least figuratively.

So when that same puditocracy gets it wrong, how many of them have the intellectual honesty to admit they were simply wrong for months and months by predicting how “divided” the Democratic Party was and how “tough” it would be to put Humpty Dumpty back together?

Remember all the fiery predictions when Hillary Clinton decided not to drop out of the race — despite calls for an exit by many of the pundits (including a Newsweek columnist who wrote “Hillary Should Get Out Now” before she won the Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas primaries)?

Remember how many times reporters for the cable channels predicted that Clinton supporters and Obama supporters would be at each other’s throats up to and including the convention?

Remember, even in just the last several days, the reporting by pundits and cable news journalists that the roll call vote “demanded” by Clinton supporters would increase the division?

And remember the constant drumbeat from the same reporters and pundits about Bill Clinton being angry and the likelihood that he would make things more difficult for Senator Obama — that his support for his election would be, at best, half-hearted?

With Tuesday night’s Hillary Clinton speech — which appears, in and of itself, to have given the Obama candidacy a 5 point bump in one night according to the Gallup Tracking Poll (with Obama now ahead 48-42 after the previous night had him in statistical tie 45%-44%) — and then last night’s home run speeches by Bill Clinton and the vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, there can no be no doubt that this is a unified Democratic Party that supports Barack Obama. Already there are signs that Democrats — and Democratic-leaning independents and moderate Republicans looking for change from the last eight years — are coming home to support the Obama-Biden ticket.

This is no time for euphoria by Democrats but the door has been opened for Senator Obama by this great convention–and tonight’s speech should also be helpful. He has a lot of hard work to do among working class voters, as he well knows. And he has to close the deal to win the 2008 election. That moment might not come until the final debate with Senator McCain in October and, indeed, perhaps not until the final weekend.

But back to the “disunity” myth… I do know one thing: If just one journalist or cable news pundit admitted to being wrong about the predictions of all this bitterness or the pressure to push Senator Clinton out of the race because she was being “divisive,” I would volunteer to buy that reporter/pundit dinner.

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Comment by Ralph

Lanny wheres my comment I wrote it yesterday!!!

 
Comment by Carla

The Party Unity we are currently witnessing in the Democratic Party is a forced unity as in obligation to the Party. This kind of unity lacks sincerity.

The reality is the Democrats turned on Hillary Clinton during the nomination process for whatever reason. Due to the convoluted rules of the Democratic Party, Hillary who received more of the popular vote lost the nomination to, Obama who received less of that vote. Then to add insult to injury Hillary was not offered the vice presidency.

The Party has been torn in half and fractured by the behavior of Democrats themselves. As a result of what unfolded over the last year the perception of the Democratic Party is this: There is no loyalty, you don’t know who your friends are, the Democrats eat their own, they ignore the will of the people and they might just be sexist.

Blatant dissension amongst the Democrats is prevalent. This kind of hurt runs very deep! However the Democrats in a well scripted and controlled setting of the Democratic Convention would have the people believe the Party has suddenly unified. This is why the new found unity the Democrats now claim is perceived as being disingenuous and lacks integrity.

 
Comment by Johnnyt D

Myth? I guess you around my house during the convention. My lovely and talented wife was ready to smack someone. Thank God it wasnt me!!!

 
Comment by robert

Lonnie Davis is a decent person and unlike so many others did not try to sandbag joe lieberman out of the senate….but with gov pailin on the ticket and the republicans unified..his analysis is totally worthless

 
Comment by Gene Heying

Look in the mirror Lanny. Listen to your own punditry. When was the last time you admitted to being wrong about ANYTHING???? Let’s not get all “high and mighty”. You are no better than any of he rest of the partisan hacks, in fact you are one of them…..
Have a good day…..

 
Comment by David

I can’t wait to see how happy the Republicans will be during the Republican National Convention. Every smile, every cheer. I can’t wait. With all this happiness, you can’t tell which side is which. Let’s all be happy as one nation. If the other side isn’t happy then we will have none of that. We can just ignore them. To question unity is one thing but to question sincerity is another. Study the issues otherwise you might get nipped in the bud if you are not watchful. Politics can be fun especially when you want to win. But what good is winning when you could care less about the policies of your own candidate.

 
Comment by maryfromohio

Oh Lanny, you are so right! I can’t wait to vote for The One, annointed by the media & DNC, who’s SO magnificent he doesn’t need any qualifications for the office. All I care about is party unity - strongarming and intimidation don’t matter to me. So what if Hillary was the best choice. None of us have any brains so we will, of course, follow your lead. That will ensure Hillary never gets another chance. We women love to be dissed, we LIKE glass ceilings, and we will definitely work to keep the “boy’s club” intact in Washington. Yes, unity is a wonderful thing!

 
Comment by Yukiko

OMG I agree with Lanny Davis about something. Yes, it is time the news media appologised for something they have gotten wrong. Unfortunately I don’t think this is it. Billery has not given up the fight. Bill will certainly find something snide to say about the obama in the very near future. While Hill stands by with an innocent smile on her face and saying ‘There he goes again.’

 
Comment by Linda

I think Mr. Davis lives in la-la land. The Clinton’s did what they do best. Talk about themselves. Sure they said to support Obama but we all know they wanted it to Hillary. I am a women who makes over $100K and Mr. Obama and the Democrats think I am rich. I support a son who is mentally ill and live paycheck to paycheck but he wants to take from me and give to the poor. I don’t understand. I thought we were founded on the principals that if you work hard and succeed you have reached the American Dream. Now they say we should all have the same. I raised three children on my own, went to college at the same time working a full-time job and have sacrificed to get where I am at. I thought I was setting an example for my children but apparently they don’t need to succeed, they will get money from the Democrats. Unbelieveable.

 
Comment by Art

Of course the Democrats are divided! They have no interest in anything except POWER. They desperately want POWER. And they’ll do anything to get it, including sacrificing their own, as determined by the high priests and priestesses of the Democratic Party. “There is no honor among thieves.”

 
Comment by Lois

As a Hilliary supporter, I am thrilled with McCain’s choice. The odds of him finishing his term are reasonable high not to mention a second term. With this VP choice there is a good shot that we will have a woman in the Whitehouse in 2012. O-bomb-a ’s choice of a very old D.C. insider lessens that likelyhood that the Dems are serious about anything except playing the “good ole boy” game!
Lois

 

In 1968, elite liberals in the East were stunned that Nixon won the election. They remarked, “How could he have won? I don’t know anyone who voted for him!” Lanny Davis is one of those creatures, someone who is off in his own la-la land, surrounded by so many other leftists and so certain of their own brilliance that they haven’t a clue as to what is happening in the rest of the country.

Hillary’s fans are very angry that Obama bought the nomination with the help of Howard Dean, who essentially blackmailed super delegates with threats of running other Dems against them in the primaries if they didn’t march in lock-step. Some democracy for those Democrats.

Palin will attract the conservatives who were planning on staying home. Palin will pick up more of the Hillary voters than Davis expects. And once McCain and the RNC start showing ads that tell America about the real Obama, the flim-flam man who so easily impressed Michelle with lines he stole from Chapter Two of socialist Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” will tank so fast you’ll see Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman crying over a decision to commit suicide.

Heck, I’ve already persuaded a dozen friends who were Hillary fans to vote for McCain, just on the basis of articles at: http://www.colony14.net

McCain-Palin in a landslide.

 
Comment by Mr Kool

McCain & Paley will win in a landslide. I know it. — I have said since January that Hillary would not win the Democratic nomination, when everyone thought she had it wrapped up. Now that Palin is in, the Democrats are doomed. Thats the way it is. I am never wrong when I get that tingle up my leg.—Steve (Patriot)

 
Comment by D.R.

Lanny, wait until the bump McCain gets from the GOP convention. Obama will be behind again, even in the most biased of Democratic polls. I doubt if anyone would bother buying you dinner if you apologized for your blundering remarks.

 
Comment by cp

Who were all those people outside the convention in Denver? Not all of them seemed too happy. Were they republicans? I do expect to see a united democratic party though, outside the republican national convention. Probably won’t be too many “united” republicans outside protesting, but who knows right?

 
Comment by Connie

It never ceases to amaze me when the democrats make statements and expect that just because they say it you should believe it. Most Americans are not that stupid. I am a registered Republican, but I have a brain of my own and don’t vote for someone just because that person is a Republican. I vote for the person who I think will do the best job. I have voted for my share of Democrats when I think they are right. In regards to President Bush I don’t agree with everything he says or does, even though I voted for him. However, the economy was in relatively good shape until the American people decided they wanted change. Well they got it alright. We have had a democratically controlled congress since 2006 and since that time oil and the price of gas has gone through the roof and the economy has slowed. I guess the dems gave us change. Not exactly the change we wanted. Can we stand much more change?
Sometimes I wish that Obama would win just so the American people can see that change isn’t always good. With a dem in the White House and the dems controlling congress we’ll be paying $10.00 a gallon for gas within a year and unemployment will soar to 10%. Now thats change!!! Then we’ll all be hoping and praying for the next election so we can get rid of this change.

 
Comment by Sheila Birkla

It would have been hands down if Hillary was still on the ticket but being the middle aged,middle class female I am still looking at swinging republican after todays news of a hard working female running on the republican ticket. You guys need to quit dogging women in todays’ world. Famous quote by my now deceased grandmother of 106 years…We ran the US when they wouldn’t let us go to war!

 
Comment by Jay

There is so much anger being generated by the anti-Obama crowd here, if it were energy we would have the crisis solved. Anyone who believes in the same ideals as the Clintons knows how dangerous McCain is for the world. Heck - the whole world knows it! If there aren’t enough of us to elect Obama, the future will be very grim for our children and grandchildren.

 
Comment by Jim S

This is typical political clap trap in the design of Karl Rove. McSame’s selection of Palin will “do him in.” It was a stupid move on his part to select someone with NO, and I mean absolutely NO experience on the national or international stage; NO foriegn policy experience; NO national economic experience, and is under investigation for improper activities in her own home state. Obama and Biden will expose all these inequities just as McSame has accused Obama of having no experience and not qualified to lead. Well, this inexperienced woman would be a heartbeat away from being Commander In Chief and that is just plain frightening! Way to go McSame in a weak attempt to pander to the female vote. I think woman of this country as smarter than the Old Man gives them credit for and it will show in November.

 
Comment by Alton Hargrave

I watched much of the DNC convention. A glorified pep rally. Everybody so happy. Change on the way. Eight is too much.

Change what? Just change for the sake of change is no good. Obama is an effective public speaker, but beyond that…what is left? Change?

So much for twisting words and pretending to like each other after spending months and millions ingraining into our minds how the others are incapable of doing the job. Denying past comments. Redefining past comments. Don’t they know that everything is recorded nowadays and we are not a bunch of idiots? Politics?

Alton

 
Comment by Stella NM

Dem disunity is a media myth? HOG WASH! The only things the Dems can seem to agree on is not wanting Bush in the White House these last eight years and not wanting McCain to take over in January.

In typical pit bull style, they not only attack Republican leaders and Republican wannabe leaders, but they also attack each other as was evident in the Primary.

If you want to print something about the Democrats, please make it newsworthy. This one clearly was not.

 
Comment by Denise

I have to disagree with the person or people who seem to have over looked or forgotten that the press has long been on the republican side, Pumas, and republicans sides still. Perhaps you are all just not as aware of what’s going on. Check back if you will, on the night that Bush was inaugurated, as he peeks down his daughter’s dress and pulls on the top part of the dress to get a peek, after which his daughter gives him a sharp and unapproving glare as she tries to put the top of the gown back to a more comfortable position. What a slob we have for a president, is it any wonder one of the twins had an addiction problem with a father like that? And you republicans view the press as favoring the democrats? Nothing at all was written or said about that, guess no one really truly cares about her rights? Especially the press, who, by the way is PRO REPUBLICAN, and soon you will see O’REILY and the rest of the crew rising to the occasion again if you don’t realize the republicans are waiting with open arms to clench up your votes, YOU PUMAS especially only to let you down again for 8 solid years. And we will loose more of the most intelligent, courageous, USA loving, honorable and mostly young citizens of our country. Wake up you spoiled brats, be aware of the republicans and why they want your votes , to win , and nothing more.

 
Comment by Joe

If you want to look at Dem unity, look at the state Obama comes from. Illinois is an all democratically run state and the state house wants to impeach the governor. We cannot agree on a budget and our taxes keep going up. We have the highest tax on gas in the country. This is what a America can become with Obama.

 
Comment by jay

i don’t know what your smoking Lanny, but pass it around. of course, your down the middle credentials are obviously well established. what the Dems proved is when you put enough toilet paper over a hole in the floor the hole itself dissapears from view, but nonetheless remains a problem. i am sure that Billery will need new caps for all the barely disguised teeth mashing they did in Denver. it was a good show but seemed so…….contrived ?

 
Comment by Denise

Wow, this comment isn’t Democratic nor Republican, it’s real Kudos to you Lanny. Those who dislike the truth appear to conjour up insults to support their views. Sad and ignorant, still they represent at least a small if not larger percentage of their Republican party. There is disunity in both parties, and all parties. Poor McCain is so out of touch with reality, look at his face, he looks like a walking puppet who lost some of his strings. Undoubtedly a man to honor, undoubtedly a trigger happy guy, not honarable at all, still a man who has defended his country and should be honored for that. Why does being a war hero qualify him for presidential office? It doesn’t, just as Pilan’s governing, running, possible pretty face, and other admirable credentials, do not qualify her, and as for inspiration, well all I can say is it takes little to no inspriational words from the Republican party to inspire the republican supporters, and of course the revengefull Hillary supporters. I, for one, am not gonna cut off my nose to spite my face, all you disloyal are obvioulsy ruled by not getting your own way, than by what’s good for the country.

 
Comment by Harris

Mr. Obama, in boxing there is a reason why one does not put a lightweight against a heavyweight.

 
Comment by LENETTE

Oh Lanny, Lanny, Lanny. You made me LOL today!!! Have you not seen your picture in Webster’s under INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST, Lanny?

 
Comment by Robin

Democratic Disunity is alive and well thanks to this farce of a Democratic National Committee and Convention.

I am a lifelong Democrat who has never crossed party lines in 30 plus years of voting. However, I will never vote for Obama. I, and my family, will vote for McCain as we have no “qualified nominee” on the Democratic side to support.

As to the DNC, I will never support them in ANY WAY after the shameful way they have tried to force Obama down our throats. Well, you know what! Let’s see whether there is real party unity when Obama loses the election because the vast number of Democrats, like myself, who either will not vote at all or vote for McCain. There’s alot of us out there who cannot , in good conscience, put a man like Obama in office who hasn’t the foggiest idea how to run this country.

What a travesty!

 
Comment by Don

Is Lanny supposed to know something about politics? No disunity in the Democratic Party? This party is the largest collection of backstabbers, lowlifes, crybabies. and snakes ever assembled. The left wing controlled media will suppress this fact to insure their annointed Obama idol becomes president.

 
Comment by Robin

Waht a shocker to the media and everyone else. Wake Up Democrats!!!!! Our party is more than fractured! It is in shambles. I am a lifelong Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton. However, I will never vote for Obama regardless of what Hillary, Bill or the HORRIBLE DNC says. I am absolutely ashamed of our party and I will vote for McCain. I refused to watch the Democratic Convention because it was all lies!!!!!!!!

I have never crossed party lines in 30 years of being a Democrat. I have always voted with party lines. Never again. I am so disenchanted with the DNC that they will never get another penny from me or will they ever get my support in any way.

Obama is a good public speaker but that, in itself, does not make him qualified to be President. He is very dangerous as he will not even begin to figure out what he is doing,i f he is elected as President, until the next election comes along. Atleast McCain has the experience to keep us all safe. I have no faith in Obama at all.

So the news media can pretend that everything is just fine within the Democratic party, if the like, but we will see who Many Democrat send up supporting and I can tell you, this Democrat would rather have a Republican in office than trust NOBAMA and his Evil, anti-American wife.

 
Comment by Monte Meadows

I am so tired of hearing from all the democratic cry babies.

 
Comment by Jerry Allsman

Lanny,

If there is no oppositon to Obama in the Democratic Party why was it reported that Illinois Senator Emil Jones, one of Obama’s mentors, called a Black Hillary delegate an “Uncle Tom” when she expressed her support for Hillary.
Why was it that the Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO reportedly said in an interview during the Democratic National Convention that white workers . . . even union members thought that Obama was the wrong the race?

It is common for Democrats to deem Black Republicans as “Uncle Toms” for not supporting the Democratic candidate, but I don’t believe I have ever seen them attack their own Black base like that.

And for the AFL-CIO representative to attack the Democrats’ own union member base is something I have never witnessed in recent political history.

 
Comment by SteveJ

The biggest lie ever told in America is the lie that the media are left-wing. They are hugely right-biased. They get away with it by defining a significantly right-orf-center position as “centrist.”<<

I challenge you to find a story, any story in the “mainstream” media that is BIASED to conservatives. I bet a years salary (mine, not yours…you probably don’t work) that you can look for the last 30 years on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC or the NY Times, LA Times, Newsweek, Time, etc. and you can’t find one. However, I can find several thousand that show obvious bias to liberals.

 
Comment by SteveJ

I do know one thing: If just one journalist or cable news pundit admitted to being wrong about the predictions of all this bitterness or the pressure to push Senator Clinton out of the race because she was being “divisive,” I would volunteer to buy that reporter/pundit dinner.<<

Dear Lanny,

It is/was not the media that was creating some myth about unity problems in the Democratic Party, it was insiders of the Democratic party saying this every day for the last 4 months!!!! Would you like a list of their names?

 
Comment by Pamela

If the party was so in unity why did they not allow a full vote on the floor?????? They did that because they knew that there were people that were against him being the nominee. The media had nothing to do with the idea of disunity. The fact that they decided to hide the division is proof positive. We will see what happens with those that do not want Obama as their nominee. They are out there. There are many or else they would have let them speak. So much for free speech advocates.

 
Comment by SueHal

1st to ‘playin possum- guess you like ‘tingle down my leg’ Matthews and his unbiased reporting.
2nd. the media is here to REPORT the FACTS not present it like a Spielberg or Michael Moore mockumentary. When you have reporters ,such as the guy who gets leg tingles , it erodes his credibility and that of his of news outlets.
3rd-why is Lanny Davis afraid of Dem. disunity. Disunity can be a healthy thing from time to time. We don’t live in the UNITED STATES OF UTOPIA. We don’t necessarily want people in lockstep all the time. He cheers when there is Republican disunity, but one thing I can say is that Republicans don’t try and silence debate by calling people ‘racists’ and ‘Uncle Tom’s’.

 
Comment by Joe

Bottom line. Obama and Biden combined have zero management experience. Neither one has run any type organization in their lives. Both are career Senators. Senators debate bills and question witnesses as members of committees. The President’s main job is to manage the executive branch of the Federal Government, which is composed of the cabinet departments and the many thousands of people who work in the departments. The President has many other roles to play which, I admit, includes making speeches. Making speeches is the only role of the Presidency I see that Barak Obama is qualified for.

 
Comment by Donna

It’s ok,republicans can fill a stadium too.http://www.scott-o-rama.com/wp-content/uploads/Image/superdome1.jpg

 
Comment by Bubblehead

I guess if you’re of the mindset to believe all the convention hype, you also believe that these speechmakers are completely sincere when they give these carefully staged and scripted speeches. They should all be in the running for the Oscars! Someday you’ll realize that you’re one of “some of the people some of the time”.

 
Comment by Dorothy

Thought provoking article. Thank you.

 
Comment by indieyogini

This is supposed to be the year that the democrats cannot possibly lose. The electorate is sick of republican rule, and all the polls have shown they want to vote democratic. So what does the party do? It nominates someone whose only qualifications are that he gave a great speech at the ‘04 convention and he gave an anti-war speech before he was a Senator and had to vote. He has no executive experience and no legislative accomplishments. Many of us see him as an opportunist with no core principles.
The message to Hillary supporters from the DNC and Obama’s thugs has been “we can win without you.” They’ve told us in the most vulgar and slanderous terms to shut up and go away. So, some of us are done with the party. I won’t vote for Obama, and I’ve re-registered independent.

 
Comment by Playin Possum

The biggest lie ever told in America is the lie that the media are left-wing. They are hugely right-biased. They get away with it by defining a significantly right-orf-center position as “centrist.”

This election isn’t repubvs democrat. it is establishment vs the people.

Power to the people.

 
Comment by Kathy

Oh please… any perceived “unity” is pure facade. All one has to do is backtrack to earlier periods in this campaign and listen to statements made by Hillary and Bill, then compare what they said then to what they had to say during this convention. Do the same with statements issued by Joe Biden during the same time frame.

Unity? Nonsense. The speakers at this convention should be fined for their hefty contribution to global warming. I’ve never in my life witnessed the production of so much hot air in one place in so short a time.

 
Comment by Cathy in Ks.

With all due respect to Mr. Davis, I do agree with most of his statements in his article except for his “main idea” that “disunity” in the democratic party is a “myth.” It’s not a myth. Unfortunately for the democratic party there are many faithful and lifelong democrats who will not be voting for the Obama/Biden ticket in November although we may be voting for down-ticket democrats who seem worthy.

Why are we not voting for the top of the democratic ticket this year? There are many reasons but I think the main one is we do not trust Senator Obama and worse than not trusting him, we think he is a “dangerous man” to have the highest office in this land. He did not win the caucuses/primaries fair and square. There were many reports of fraud during the primary season. Secondly he has practically no experience in the United States senate or elsewhere. I’m sorry but no offense to community organizers but I don’t think that qualifies anyone to run for president of the United States. Secondly when we do look at his voting record while in the Illinois State senate and then the U.S. senate, there is little evidence that he is a “mover and shaker.” Rather he looks like someone who blows with whatever winds are prevailing in his direction. Then there is the question of Obama’s judgment of should we say the “lack thereof.” How does he explain his relationships with people like Rev. Wright, Rezko (now a convicted felon), and Ayers to name just a few? In fact where are Obama’s mainstream associations and friends. They have yet to surface.

Another reason that we are not voting for the top of the ticket is the fraudulent way leaders of the democratic party have pushed Obama’s candidacy through. We bitter, working-class, older women and men too, were told we were not needed during the primaries. Senator Clinton, her family, and her supporters were called names, ridiculed, and dismissed by the Obama minions as well as much of the MSM and Howard Dean and Co. turned a “blind eye” and “deaf ear.” If these attacks had come from republicans it would have been understandable. But these vicious attacks were coming from the so-called “new democrats” and the “democratic elite?”who were supporting Obama. Even after Senator Obama was declared the presumptive nominee these “thugs for Obama” were continuing to threaten those of us who had legitimate concerns about Obama’s candidacy.

Mr. Davis, I know you have a career with the democratic party and put loyalty to the “party” first. Until this election cycle, I did too. But no more. A “d” beside someone’s name will no longer make me “pull the lever” for them. My “country first” is now my motto.

 
Comment by Larry

First of all, speeches mean nothing.
We do not know, nor will we know the unity/disunity factor until the real election. Then, maybe we will know.
Actually, I think the word for Democrats is not disunity, but dysfunctional. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

 
Comment by bill h.

Geez, a former White House insider telling us to “move along, nothing to see here….”

Not sure whether to believe him or professional reporters who may know what they are talking about.

Hmmmmmmm.

 
Comment by Steve

You can always tell the Clintonians like Davis. They say something that is completely unbelievable or has even been proven incorrect and yet can look you in the eye as say it is so, e.g., Bill’s “I never had sexual relations with that woman” comment. The evidence of disheartened Hillary-supporters who do not like Obama is everywhere. I guess this type of stuff plays well with leftists who believe that man is causing global warming, that Clinton was a good president and 9-11 was orchestrated by the Bush administration. Watch for the Clinton cronies like Davis to get further and further infatuated over the Messiah in the next 60 days in hopes for a role in his administration or a least an invite to an exclusive party at the White House if the nation’s worst nightmare gets elected.

 
Comment by ElG

You, and many others, still enchanted by the rhetoric of the Clintons!

I’m sure they’re very proud that the spin still works. . .win or lose,
they’ll set themselves up for 2012.
They must re-secure government housing for themselves; we don’t know
where the cost of housing will be by then. . .the White House isn’t a bad abode!

But: who will do what with whom in those little rooms off the Oval Office?
Will we go back to eight years of bad behavior?
Did everyone forget?

 
Comment by djmtott

Revisionist history has commenced!

 
Comment by Warren

The MYTH is the one that Lanny Davis is trying to foist on us; that of Democrat Party “UNITY”… He is, and always has been, a Clinton hack, and nothing changes that. It will be FUN to watch this mythical house of cards continue to fall down…

NOT that the Republican side is so much more… It’s just that the candidate on THAT side of the aisle has DONE something during his life.

EITHER way, this is one for the ages — strap in and hang on !

 
Comment by Dan Nap

listen.. what you people have to understand is the media controls peoples thoughts like monarchs used to use religion to scare people,
the people in charge know that in order to conquer us we must first be divided. Divided on the little issues that dont matter. People need to start waking up and turn off the TV and think for themselves
the media creates alot of myths. mis perceptions. This isnt the only one can anyone else agree?

 
Comment by Robert S

Given that Lanny Davis was the “spear catcher” for the Clintonistas during the 90’s and a well-entrenched Democrat, what else can he say, other than “the party is united?” Is he going to note the obvious divide between the Clintons and Obama? Of course not! The only people telling the truth on the left about this sham of a convention are Carville and Gergen, and they’re getting lambasted by the leftist media because they dare state the truth that this is a dog-and-pony show with no substance, which is the Democrat Party personified.

 
Comment by Larry

Fact is Lanny you will never get humpty dumpty, the Dems, put together again. They have shot
themselves in the foot so often they don’t have a foot to stand on.

 
Comment by verland

I am a lifelong Democrat fully supporting John McCain because of the Obama campaign. The media did not create me, Obama and his supporters did.

 
Comment by aaron

Yeah Lanny David couldnt be more wrong. There has been massive disunity in the democratic party caused by the primary season and the clinton campaign actions. They told their supports that they had a good chance of winning when they didnt. she said that Michigan and Florida don’t count, then she said that they did count when she fell behind. Then in the end she attempted to blame sexism, which there was some, as the reason that she lost which just is not true. This whole experience is just like sabatoging someone over and over again while simultaneously saying “don’t worry about it I’ll fix it in the end”. only you cant. it doesnt work that while. While hillary clinton and her phonyness has managed to shift most of her supporters over to the democrats, the Hillaryinistas will never vote for Obama. there has been disunity, there still is, just a question of how muich.

 
Comment by Jen

Wrong again! It is not a myth. The nomination was stolen from the qualified candidate!

 
Comment by NotFooled

What is being referred to as Unity is actually conformity to Obama’s corrupt group of jackels. A disgusting bunch that believe that perception is reality and they create the perception. Such is the system that created George W. Bush for the Right and look how well he turned out. Now they have created Barack Obama on the Left. Is that because Bush worked so well? Yes, at plundering the middle class for to create more elitist rich. Now the Lefties want theirs.

NO DEAL!

 
Comment by Jane S

In your dreams Lanny.

I know of many democratic females and some males that will not reward the backstabbing Obama campaign with support after smearing and trashing a perfectly good candidate in Hillary Clinton. She was painted by the Obama’s and their backstabbing surrogates as pro-war and then they turn around and pick Biden who has the same exact record as Hillary on the war.

Bill and Hill did what the HAD to do but they will be back in 2012. Obama’s followers will stop at nothing to get elected and they are smearing anyone in their path. Disgusting.

 
Comment by DAR

The Democrats are such flying monkeys!

 
Comment by gary overman

I find it amazing that a political hack and talking points butt-boy like this is even allowed on fox news. this clinton era criminal is one of the architects of economic despair… responsible for the current “fix” we find ourselves in. massive confiscation of wealth and a shifting debt burden spanning many generations qualifies he and his kind for a prison cell not a place at fox news. it is unfortunate that the soviet union is no more….we could send him home. If Americans believe the moronic babble from the clinton left…they get what they deserve.. our children do not deserve the bankrupt police state we have constructed for them.
gary overman

 
Comment by Simone

The animosity between the two candidates and their staff is obvious to casual observer and did not need assistance from the press. Your article appears to be an attempt to once again give the American people a spin on what happened. This is just one more example of why most folks are fed up with the media and thier politiacal bias. Trying to act like the events that occured between the candidates was the responsibility of the press and not that due to the candidates is reflective of what is wrong in Washington today. People in both parties realize that no one will take responsibility for their actions and it is always someone else’s fault. Stop making excuses for thier competitive behavior and try to find a way to make things work in the party. Enjoy your holiday weekend.

 
Comment by jdona

Wow, how much more do we need to do to wake up the DNC and its members that this party is as fractured as it can be? Oh yeah, I’m a PUMA. as are my mother, my husband, my sons, and most of my friends. We by ourselves have 27 votes in my family alone that won’t go to Obama. Multiply that by about a million or two, and then tell me again how unified this party is. Admitting the problem might actually solve it, but as long as the DNC is in denial, it can’t be fixed. You can’t fix what you don’t see is broken. We will either sit out the election or we will vote McCain. Maybe then Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and Donna Brazille, might open their eyes to the travesty of this nomination process, and the mockery they call a roll call vote.

 
Comment by Gary Jaussaud

Gary’s comment is:

You are 100% correct. If people like Sean Hannaty of Hannaty and Colmbs ever said he was sorry
for something he said in error, I would faint away. And Dick Morris he as talked and written for so long now about all this stuff, he is flip flopping all over the place on things he as said, and never goes
back to say I was wrong, or I need to re-think my position, he just keeps blogging along.

I think fredom of the press is important, however some of the folks in the business should be doing
something else, really.

 
Comment by Eduardo

Lanny Davis proves again how a democrat will uses any means for confusion!

 
Comment by bmw60

It is not a myth!!!

There is great disunity among democrats (I no long capitalize it)… the members of the Just Say No Deal coalition are as adamant as ever in their distrust and disgust with the democratic party!

We will remember… we will not be forgetful of the primary season. Call me bitter, but to me bitter means Brave these days. With the thugs that support Obama not reaching out, but continuing to badger and berate non-Obama supporters, I am forced to believe that Obama is the same way.

He has not reached out to the 18 million voters of Hillary Clinton… He has not defined himself… He has not unified the party.

The Clinton’s did all they could. They were more than gracious to a man who called Bill Clinton a racist and Hillary who was given the “finger” (YOU know which one I mean) after the Pennsylvania debate. His supporters knew what he was saying when he scratched his cheek with his middle finger while talking about Hillary and demeaning all women. In the process he demeaned all women. I can only think that he has no respect for women with that gesture……. so yes, the party is disunited and I lay the blame solely on Obama’s , Pelosi’s, Reid’s and Howard Dean’s shoulders.

With his “coronation” the story is complete and with the end of the convention nearing, we see that he still continues his dissing of the voters who voted during the primaries.

Thank You Main Stream media. Thank You democratic party. Thank You Obama for the eye-opening sexist, mysogenist and undemocratic way you do things!

 
Comment by Former McCain Constituent

We had to give the Republicans some hope that they had a chance to win. lol How else are you going to give hope to a bunch of folks who run a mean, bitter old man whose every thought is a noun, a verb and POW. lol

 
Comment by Destardi

With all due respect Lanny, as a liberal, I am DISGUSTED by obama.

THere are MANY of us out here, and though I casted my vote for Hillary, I couldn’t care less what the Clintons request; I will never vote for obama.

Ever.

 
Comment by southernboy

as ron white says “you can’t fix stupid”. anyone who thinks obama can lead this country was educated by the far left, not mainstream AMERICA

 
Comment by Brian from Texas