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Sun Dec-06-09 09:01 PM
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The source of this article, Counterpunch, is considered an unreliable source (at best.) Mod consensus is that this has run its course.
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| -The Democrats have abandoned us |
yurbud |
Dec-05-09 06:55 PM |
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There are some exceptions outside of Kucinich |
laughingliberal |
Dec-05-09 07:01 PM |
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There's a lot of truth in this. Often, very often, I wonder WTF anymore. n/t |
RKP5637 |
Dec-05-09 07:03 PM |
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i feel betrayed by my party. nt |
DesertFlower |
Dec-05-09 07:27 PM |
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then become a repuke |
Ernesto |
Dec-05-09 07:33 PM |
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i'd eat ground glass before i would do that. lol |
DesertFlower |
Dec-05-09 07:37 PM |
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those are not the only choices: we could take over the party or form another one |
yurbud |
Dec-05-09 07:54 PM |
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the fight is never over my friend! |
Ernesto |
Dec-05-09 08:28 PM |
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Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results |
Lorien |
Dec-05-09 11:24 PM |
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I think the fight |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 12:35 PM |
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I so Hear you ... |
Techn0Girl |
Dec-05-09 10:30 PM |
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trickle up: start local and work our way up. Obviously, we haven't reached |
yurbud |
Dec-06-09 12:28 AM |
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If we form a third party we elect pukes |
Cobalt-60 |
Dec-06-09 05:07 AM |
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No we don't quit that canard alradey |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 04:27 PM |
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The fewer who vote for the Democrats |
johan helge |
Dec-06-09 12:34 PM |
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The more we don't vote Dem, the more we vote 3rd parties. That is what the DLC doesn't want us to do |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 04:31 PM |
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Because it's time to build a machine that can get decent candidates into office. |
Daemonaquila |
Dec-06-09 05:54 PM |
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In logic that's called a FALSE DILEMMA. And it's a fallacy. |
readmoreoften |
Dec-05-09 10:26 PM |
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What is it with you people that we can only have 2 parties? |
AllyCat |
Dec-06-09 01:09 PM |
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We have a conservative party (the GOP) and a moderate conservative party (Dems) |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 04:36 PM |
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liberation, that makes a lot of sense. |
AllyCat |
Dec-06-09 07:38 PM |
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Actually...maybe having an utter loon in office, might wake the country up |
parasearchers |
Dec-05-09 07:54 PM |
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8 years of Bushco gave us Obama which is turning out to be Bushco lite. |
nosmokes |
Dec-05-09 08:10 PM |
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"Unless and until we get corporate money out of the election process we are doomed " |
Ernesto |
Dec-05-09 08:34 PM |
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I told people that Obama was a repug lite, also, Clinton, and was |
pleah |
Dec-05-09 10:41 PM |
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I'm not sure this is even Bushco lite. I think it's just Bushco. |
AllyCat |
Dec-06-09 01:10 PM |
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We just had that and look where it got us |
ThomThom |
Dec-06-09 01:06 PM |
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so that's what Democracy has come down to, huh? We are now blackmailed into voting |
fascisthunter |
Dec-06-09 04:39 PM |
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Somewhere I heard it named as: The Evil of Two Lessers |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 04:45 PM |
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Counterpunch is always so far over the top |
jkshaw |
Dec-05-09 08:06 PM |
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They're only over the top until what they say is proven true. n/t |
nosmokes |
Dec-05-09 08:12 PM |
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Rec. It's possible to come up with some examples of good things we Dems have done, but |
bertman |
Dec-05-09 08:21 PM |
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Some of us were trying to open eyes on this way back in Clinton's day... |
winyanstaz |
Dec-05-09 08:29 PM |
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"Where the hell are America's heros now?" |
Ernesto |
Dec-05-09 08:43 PM |
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Why thank you...I do believe that is the nicest thing ever said to me in DU :) |
winyanstaz |
Dec-05-09 08:44 PM |
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And you sir, are also a hero. Thank-you, from my heart of hearts for your |
nosmokes |
Dec-05-09 10:22 PM |
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Yes he is :) |
winyanstaz |
Dec-06-09 03:21 PM |
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Where the hell are America's heros now? |
wuvuj |
Dec-06-09 05:47 AM |
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We need to bring them home now to protect us from the bad guys here..... |
winyanstaz |
Dec-06-09 08:56 PM |
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How long before somebody posts a response with the word "pony" in it? |
salguine |
Dec-05-09 09:41 PM |
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Well... |
snake in the grass |
Dec-06-09 02:52 AM |
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D'oh! You know what I mean. Why, I oughta... |
salguine |
Dec-06-09 10:54 AM |
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You did not get the memo? They moved on with that one, now it is "he did not promise that" (tm) |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 04:49 PM |
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How much majority? |
Naked_Ape |
Dec-06-09 01:11 AM |
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"The war is what it is." |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 12:42 PM |
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Nonsensical arguments like "the war is what it is" tends to be the hallmark of runaway projection |
liberation |
Dec-06-09 05:11 PM |
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Thanks for posting this. |
lovelyrita |
Dec-06-09 09:06 AM |
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the real issue |
singing sparrow |
Dec-06-09 10:40 AM |
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+1 |
dreamnightwind |
Dec-06-09 12:05 PM |
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Making me work |
HughMoran |
Dec-06-09 10:06 AM |
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thanks |
bkozumplik |
Dec-06-09 01:45 PM |
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Why yes - let the cheerleaders ignore the pissed majority. |
Daemonaquila |
Dec-06-09 05:42 PM |
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Hate to say it, but for me it comes down to either voting for the spineless ineffective corporate |
IsItJustMe |
Dec-06-09 10:20 AM |
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we can change them. |
yurbud |
Dec-06-09 10:52 AM |
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+1 Public financing of campaigns would go a long way toward fixing this problem |
AllyCat |
Dec-06-09 01:11 PM |
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I've thought a lot about that too |
bkozumplik |
Dec-06-09 02:00 PM |
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He has been pushing lobbyist from the government... |
Historic NY |
Dec-06-09 11:03 AM |
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Yeah, Obama has recently has been pushing them from advisory panels, |
avaistheone1 |
Dec-06-09 11:22 AM |
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"the government’s priorities are totally separate from those of the people" |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 12:26 PM |
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Sorry, I unrecommended this |
johan helge |
Dec-06-09 12:28 PM |
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"the weaker the Democrats are, the more conservative they and the Republicans will be" |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 12:49 PM |
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Perhaps you are right about these last years |
johan helge |
Dec-06-09 01:41 PM |
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Well, liberals were almost universally united behind the Dems |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 02:43 PM |
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But liberals get a lot in return - |
johan helge |
Dec-06-09 03:11 PM |
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I DISAGREE. Obama has done and continues to do what is the right thing for our economy. |
secondwind |
Dec-06-09 01:00 PM |
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You have been conned. nt |
Truth2Tell |
Dec-06-09 01:54 PM |
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Propping up the banks only bought some time, it didnt fix a thing that was broke. nt |
rhett o rick |
Dec-06-09 03:29 PM |
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Bernie Sanders has not sold us out. Oh, wait. He's not a Dem. |
AllyCat |
Dec-06-09 01:06 PM |
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The dems are the best thing we have, for now, don't throw |
mother earth |
Dec-06-09 01:10 PM |
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Good luck getting rid of Lieberman and the rest. |
Kermitt Gribble |
Dec-06-09 02:29 PM |
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We'll certainly find out if all is lost well before 2012, but while |
mother earth |
Dec-06-09 05:18 PM |
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And you should abandon them. |
irislake |
Dec-06-09 01:51 PM |
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The Corporate Party |
Cartoonist |
Dec-06-09 02:21 PM |
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A belated welcome to DU! |
Quantess |
Dec-06-09 04:53 PM |
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I was referring to Ghandi |
Cartoonist |
Dec-06-09 07:36 PM |
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich for prez in 2012 |
N_E_1 for Tennis |
Dec-06-09 03:48 PM |
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. |
fascisthunter |
Dec-06-09 04:39 PM |
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our government has been taken over by corporate interests |
fascisthunter |
Dec-06-09 04:40 PM |
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KR |
inna |
Dec-06-09 04:52 PM |
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little late, they did this ages ago |
PatrynXX |
Dec-06-09 04:59 PM |
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More accurate |
Knight Hawk |
Dec-06-09 05:05 PM |
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STOP complaining, and START doing. And that goes to everyone who rec'd this thread. |
UrbScotty |
Dec-06-09 06:30 PM |
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I Could Not Agree More! |
mckara |
Dec-06-09 08:32 PM |
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Locking |
TygrBright |
Dec-06-09 09:01 PM |
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