Comments on: No Time for Back Patting

By: dugger1

dugger1 — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:09:09 +0000

Semant,

What was going on was that most posters here, really did not like Kerry’s, in effect, pro war postion, but silently acquiesced in the name of party unity. The politics are much more radical and the people much worse, but kinda what happened to the Communist Party after the Nazi Soviet Pact. Some stayed true to their ideals, some didn’t.
Dugger

By: JD

JD — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:09:15 +0000

Not to go off on a tangent, Oliver, but President Clinton’s problems, just like President Bush’s problems, did not come about because of their opponents. They came about because of their individual choices, decisions, and actions.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:09:19 +0000

We all knew what was going on.

Cryptic, but intriguing. Care to elaborate?

By: dugger1

dugger1 — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:09:12 +0000

Hey, whatever else, Eli is true to his ideals. He opposed the war here when most other progressives made a “deal with the devil” for Kerry’s sake. We all knew what was going on.

Dugger

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 08:09:35 +0000

Oliver, when you get a situation where presidential candidates are appearing at $1000 a plate dinners to lobby for funds from the super-rich to fund a campaign which costs tens of millions, how can either be progressive and keep it’s rich contributors happy?
Clinton may have been a more able president than Bush 43, but he didn’t change the laws on arsenic in the water until Bush was due at the door. If Gore had got the job, would this law have even been thought of?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:09:48 +0000

Please explain to me, of the two parties in America, which one is more progressive. Then explain to me if there is any way a third party could be succesful in America (not that I would want one). Now quit bitchin’.

By: SadieB

SadieB — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:09:11 +0000

The Democratic Party is a once-grand mansion, abandoned by her true heirs and taken over by squatters. Progressives have a choice, we can start over from scratch or move into this fixer-upper, roll up our sleeves, and go to work.

I know what my choice is. I ran for, and won, a spot on the Executive Board of my local County Democrats last spring. I challenge all Progressives to put their money (and time, and energy) where their mouth is, and join me.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 16:09:01 +0000

eli;

pretty broad. care to erlucidate?

By: Eli Stephens

Eli Stephens — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:09:45 +0000

“To the progressive movement, specifically the Democratic Party…”

The Democratic Party is not the “progressive movement” or even part of the progressive movement; it is an obstacle to the progressive movement.