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... such as the Ferraro fiasco have really left me wondering where the supposed grownups are. I expected better leadership from the party elders than letting these situations between the campaigns (and their supporters) fester.
McCain should be their target, not a circular firing squad of Democrats.
by Spunkmeyer on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:31:05 AM PDT
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I've been wondering why exactly it is that congressional Democrats, almost down to the last, can't muster the kind of basic courage you see in, say, a well-managed fifth grade classroom.
Professional athletes take their careers into their own hands on a more consistent basis than politicians; the ones that don't never even make it to the professional level.
The only rational conclusion I can come to is that these people simply don't care about the issues as much as they say they do. If they did, they wouldn't be able to live with themselves for all they've let slide in the last twenty years.
How much courage does it really take to tell one of your colleagues that they're out of line? I know cops, teachers, lawyers, and even food service workers who demonstrate more 'stuff' than these Democrats, and I finally got sick of it all and started electing those people instead.
Do you hear that, Jim Cooper? I'm coming for your job next if you don't shape up!
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by autoegocrat on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:02:18 AM PDT
Very few are immune, and it is uncurable.
by soonerhq on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:23:42 AM PDT
Let's get on with it. Choose a nominee in May or early June at the very latest and be done with it.
Enough.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
by JekyllnHyde on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:38:44 AM PDT
A contagious disease afflicting liberals - especially elite members of a party whose appropriate emblem is an ass.
by griz4u on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:35:53 AM PDT
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by latest outrage on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:42:18 AM PDT
No, I'm not a delegate much less a superdelegate. But Florida 2000 as well as countless other episodes in history show the importance of "being there." If I and 100,000 of my friends show up in Denver, then I believe that the superdelegates will do the right thing. They will not stiff the people if we show that we really care about how this race turns out. If I don't care enought to show up...well, then anything is possible.
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by RudiB on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:37:05 AM PDT
A pitchfork? :)
by griz4u on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 11:48:42 AM PDT
but I never travel without my pitchfork and torch.
by RudiB on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 02:15:51 PM PDT
and that is and has ALWAYS been the problem we face...
career politicians have one main goal... getting re-elected over and over and over which means, at the end of the day they STAND FOR NOTHING but getting re-elected!!
to mistakenly label these people as LIBERALS is a mistake of MAJOR proportions and feeds right into the attack meme the right loves to spew forth during election time.
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by KnotIookin on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:48:56 AM PDT
these worms to take a stand or do the right thing.
Calculation trumps all.
Great, good, bad, and evil are a complex continuum. We easily label GOP as bad and evil - and they are. But it is very hard for me to point to very much evidence at all that says that Congressional Democrats, by and large, are "good people". I don't respect our two-party system. And it forces us, progressive citizens, to choose in ways that tends to imply: the Democratic Party is good, the Republican Party is bad.
Frankly, I don't think the Democratic Party IS good. It's simply all that's available that is less shitty than the GOP, by a long shot. Still doesn't make it good.
Those who can't commit right now earn, for me, the rank of self-centered weak office holders and collectors of taxpayer paychecks. Anyone who can't commit right now is, in the language of the street, a total loser as persons. I wouldn't trust such people with my life, not in any way shape or form.
But I don't expect these losers to do the right thing. They don't have that int them. Even though I wish they did.
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by rhfactor on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 11:29:21 AM PDT
Does anyone know? Isn't he the "head" of the Democratic party?
by ginja on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:51:26 AM PDT
As messed up as LBJ was about Vietnam, can you imagine his reaction to the way Democrats are acting today? He would be kicking ass and taking names. We could use someone of his political caliber today. It makes me laugh just to imagine him profanely chewing out some lily-livered DLC clone.
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by pacotrey on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:50:38 AM PDT
I've heard it faintly on the wind, from the west. It must be LBJ turning over in his grave on the ranch in Johnson City.
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. You've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." --Bruce Cockburn, "Lovers In A Dangerous
by AustinCynic on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22:59 PM PDT
wide narrow
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