Reply #72: There is a lot of info here at DU about their founding.

[madfloridian]

I believe Gore, like Clinton, was part of the founding of it. I know there are threads and threads about the founding.

Gore set himself apart from that group long ago.

I guess I could do a search for you, but maybe later. It is hard to search the archives here for 2005 unless the search terms etc. are just right.

The war was the thing. That was what brought them out into the open, and it happened in early 2003 in two speeches given to CA Democratic parties.

Until Dean stood up and said what he wanted to know was why were so many Democrats voting to support Bush's unilateral war on Iraq, few of us were really aware of the group.

I have many pages saved. You seem very hard to convince about Al Gore. He was DLC, now he is not. Dean was DLC, now he is not. However both are probably still quite moderate in their views. They just believe in standing up and speaking out.