Huffington Post piece tries to link Kerry to the DLC agenda through distortion

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Joseph Kay writes:

The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) held its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend, outlining its program for the upcoming 2006 mid-term elections and the presidential election in 2008. Speeches at the meeting and documents published in advance indicate that the Democratic Party plans to run an extremely right-wing campaign, particularly on the issues of "national security" and the war in Iraq.


Sean Donahue wrote in 2004:

Most of the major contributors to John Kerry's presidential campaign are corporations or employees of corporations that have ties to a network of organizations dedicated to moving the Democratic Party to the right. These organizations, which include the Democratic Leadership Council, the New Democrat Network, and the Progressive Policy Institute, are dedicated to pursuing a policy agenda that includes support for high levels of military spending and an aggressive role for the U.S. military around the world. Kerry has a history of political links to these organizations as well, and though he has been using progressive rhetoric during his campaign, the details and nuances of his positions indicate that Kerry is still dedicated to pursuing their conservative agenda.

Still wonder why Kerry refused to oppose the war?

In 2003, Ralph Nader wrote:

To the DLC mind, Democrats are catering to "special interests" when they stand up for trade unions, regulatory consumer-investor protections, a pre-emptive peace policy overseas, pruning the bloated military budget now devouring fully half of the federal government's entire discretionary expenditures, defending Social Security from Wall Street schemes, and pressing for universal health care coverage.

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How can anyone write about the DLC and not mention Hillary Clinton?

The entire post is about the DLC and their agenda from the 2006 meeting, yet this writer doesn't mention Clinton once.

Instead of addressing the keynote speaker at the 2006 DLC meeting, that would be Clinton, the writer attaches Kerry to the DLC's agenda.

Kerry doesn't support their agenda, and what's that funky comment about the war and corporate money? It's like they took everything Clinton is about, including the DLC, and by distortion are attaching them to Kerry.

The claim that Kerry takes corporate money is bogus. How can anyone claim Kerry is conservative?

This is disinformation that does nothing for the progressive cause.