So this article doesn't name Barry directly but it does touch on an interesting dilemma in today's politics. The old (and sometimes corrupt) OLD guard and the new and enthusiastic NEW guard.
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Here is an excerpt:
D.C. Party Is Resistant To Audacity Of Change
By David Nakamura
Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, August 15, 2008; B01
Like thousands of young
Barack Obama supporters, Kahlil Palmer has poured his soul into the politics of change.
He's volunteered at the polls, taken road trips to knock on doors, and done his part to help build those big rallies.
Now Palmer, a 30-year-old lawyer from Northwest Washington, is ready for the next step: his own run for elected office. Palmer and a dozen friends from the volunteer group D.C. For Obama are part of a slate bidding for seats on the D.C. Democratic State Committee. They are touting ideas and experience from the national campaign that they say can energize and grow the local party apparatus, whether it's using the Internet to organize or broadcasting meetings to boost visibility.
And they're getting their heads knocked hard against the wall of political reality.
Their idealism and enthusiasm have crashed into a formidable opposing force: the local
Democratic Party, with its internecine rivalries and territorial squabbles. The District, after all, is that proverbial "small-town big city," where everyone knows everyone and insiders aggressively control tiny fiefdoms.
These insiders have called the newcomers Johnny-come-latelies who don't know the city and haven't paid their dues. The old guard is intent on keeping them at bay.
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