Reply #60: A little history lesson on the DLC - Corporate Buddies to Clinton et al:

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I have learned a lot about the DLC through the years! The are NOT what I want to be associated with! Big buiness and corporate contacts! No thanks Mr. President, you are NOT what I had thought once upon a time!

A little history on the DLC:

Behind the DLC Takeover - Democratic Leadership Council
Progressive, The, Oct, 2000 by John Nichols

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_10_64/ai... /

....Founded in the mid-1980s with essentially the same purpose as the Christian Coalition--to pull a broad political party dramatically to the right--the DLC has been far more successful than its headline-grabbing Republican counterpart. After Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan, a group of mostly Southern, conservative Democrats hatched the theory that their party was in trouble because it had grown too sympathetic to the agendas of organized labor, feminists, African Americans, Latinos, gays and lesbians, peace activists, and egalitarians.

And they found willing corporate allies, in corporate America, who provided the money needed to make a theory appear to be a movement. In the ensuing fifteen years, the DLC's impact on the American political debate has been dramatic. The group now controls much of the upper-level apparatus of the Democratic Party.

A day is soon coming when "we'll finally be able to proclaim that all Democrats are, indeed, New Democrats," declared DLC President Al From on the eve of this year's Democratic National Convention.