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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-30-10 06:50 PM
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13. for a better candidate
you might be right about that. I just don't think Obama nor this Administration have any intention of doing anything meaningful that is progressive. I am very cynical these days. We will see...
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  -If Dems & Obama want to hold back GOP in November, they have to give progressives something BIG yurbud  Aug-30-10 06:32 PM   #0 
  - Elizabeth Warren!  Me.   Aug-30-10 06:35 PM   #1 
  - that would be a good start. I would like to see his whole economic team fired  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:38 PM   #3 
  - I Second That  Me.   Aug-30-10 07:23 PM   #28 
  - That's a good one! Also, fire Mr. "Fucking Retarded," "Professional Left" and "310 million tits" --  smalll   Aug-31-10 02:10 AM   #43 
     - and apologize for having hired them  yurbud   Aug-31-10 10:57 AM   #61 
  - I agree.  CaliforniaPeggy   Aug-30-10 06:36 PM   #2 
  - Obama is fighting the last war. Appeasement of the right made a sort of sense in the Bill Clinton  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:40 PM   #5 
     - Helped him a lot with that Lewinsky problem, didn't it?  izquierdista   Aug-30-10 07:30 PM   #31 
     - I think they were in a panic that he would get credit for their ideas  yurbud   Aug-31-10 02:56 PM   #67 
     - "Wrongest of wrong ways"  Enthusiast   Aug-31-10 04:31 AM   #53 
     - Clinton didnt appease the right  niceypoo   Aug-31-10 08:35 AM   #59 
        - like? I remember him standing up to them on the budget once and calling their bluff on a government  yurbud   Aug-31-10 10:59 AM   #62 
           - Clinton won every budget fight with the GOP  niceypoo   Sep-01-10 09:03 AM   #76 
  - I'm Hoping for a Better candidate  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 06:40 PM   #4 
  - if that's the case, things will have to get much much worse before they get better.  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:40 PM   #6 
  - for a better candidate  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 06:50 PM   #13 
  - "corporate friendly candidate". Such BS  impik   Aug-31-10 02:26 AM   #44 
     - declared but was it fought?  yurbud   Aug-31-10 02:57 PM   #68 
     - Rude and Undeserved... I read and don't need your advice, got it?  fascisthunter   Aug-31-10 05:30 PM   #72 
  - If you say so. Quite frankly I don't think there is anything that  Kdillard   Aug-30-10 06:42 PM   #7 
  - there has been plenty and a lot of it fairly doable, for one, putting more progressives in the  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:47 PM   #10 
  - Seriously. Cabinet members who have to be approved and  Kdillard   Aug-30-10 07:07 PM   #20 
  - well, that's because he's done very little that is Progressive  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 06:52 PM   #14 
  - I have seen progressives do little other than complain from the  Kdillard   Aug-30-10 07:10 PM   #22 
  - Progressives have every right to complain  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 07:17 PM   #25 
     - A lot of other people can make the same claim. I don't  Kdillard   Aug-30-10 07:28 PM   #30 
        - "only voice"... are ya kidding me? We can't even get a seat at the table  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 07:38 PM   #33 
        - progressives are the only voice he hasn't listened to..  frylock   Aug-30-10 08:17 PM   #36 
        - WTF?  Skittles   Aug-31-10 04:24 AM   #51 
  - Yes, the self-proclaimed "progressives" think that the most progressive president in decades didn't  impik   Aug-31-10 02:28 AM   #45 
     - Obama is a self-described "New Democrat" not a liberal, not a progressive.  nightrain   Aug-31-10 07:10 AM   #56 
     - not good enough for me  fascisthunter   Aug-31-10 05:33 PM   #73 
  - It would be nice if he tried.  Jim Sagle   Aug-30-10 07:12 PM   #23 
  - Progressives don't deserve shit. All they've done is piss and moan for 2 years.  Phx_Dem   Aug-30-10 06:44 PM   #8 
  - that's your get out the vote campaign? fuck you, now vote for me?  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:45 PM   #9 
  - That seems to be the attitude  MissDeeds   Aug-30-10 07:17 PM   #26 
  - how about this? fuck your attitude, now either vote for the GOP or against it.  Aramchek   Aug-31-10 12:31 PM   #64 
  - what Democratic Party values do you agree with?  yurbud   Aug-30-10 06:48 PM   #11 
  - OTOH, DLCers ain't nuthin' BUT shit.  Jim Sagle   Aug-30-10 07:13 PM   #24 
  - Progressives put Obama in office. I know lefties who wrinkle their noses...  ClassWarrior   Aug-30-10 07:38 PM   #32 
  - Thanks for convincing more people to stay home in 2010/12.  Ignis   Aug-31-10 02:49 PM   #66 
  - Would that be "Change we can believe in"?  BlueJac   Aug-30-10 06:49 PM   #12 
  - How about a wooden nickel with the sensible woodchuck on one side and...  greendog   Aug-30-10 06:55 PM   #15 
  - no thanks, we already got that.  yurbud   Aug-30-10 07:04 PM   #19 
  - Gimme Gimme Gimme  elleng   Aug-30-10 06:57 PM   #16 
  - uh...what exactly do you think we vote for? And what do all those corporate donors give money for?  yurbud   Aug-30-10 07:03 PM   #17 
  - I hope you're being sarcastic not retarded.  yurbud   Aug-30-10 07:04 PM   #18 
  - Neither  elleng   Aug-30-10 07:09 PM   #21 
     - Consensus. How's that working out for you?  ClassWarrior   Aug-30-10 07:39 PM   #34 
     - bowing and scraping to those with money and screwing the rest of us?  yurbud   Aug-31-10 02:35 AM   #47 
     - gawd  Skittles   Aug-31-10 04:26 AM   #52 
  - You post "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" and tell him to "grow up"?  fascisthunter   Aug-30-10 07:20 PM   #27 
  - Or they can run a Republican-style campaign of fear...  Blue Meany   Aug-30-10 07:24 PM   #29 
  - But it's independents we are losing...  Imajika   Aug-30-10 07:58 PM   #35 
  - you know that are indys out there that are liberal, right?  frylock   Aug-30-10 08:22 PM   #37 
     - In fact- according to the data on the issues MOST of them  depakid   Aug-31-10 12:56 AM   #40 
        - We like to ignore that inconvenient data. nt  Enthusiast   Aug-31-10 04:35 AM   #54 
  - #1 Fire the entire Economic Team, #2 Stop Looking to the Right on Everything.  denimgirly   Aug-31-10 12:26 AM   #38 
  - LOL.  AtomicKitten   Aug-31-10 12:43 AM   #39 
  - the anti republican fight is more important at this stage  Rosa Luxemburg   Aug-31-10 12:59 AM   #41 
  - that's wishful thinking and assumes that the Democratic base has the right's memory of a gnat  yurbud   Aug-31-10 02:35 AM   #48 
  - There's not a damn thing he can do to make us all happy.  boppers   Aug-31-10 01:33 AM   #42 
  - the pendulum swings left right left right  Rosa Luxemburg   Aug-31-10 10:33 PM   #74 
  - Really? Obama is at 85% approval with Democrats. The 24/7 professional left whiners are hardly his  impik   Aug-31-10 02:29 AM   #46 
  - 85% think he's better than a Republican  yurbud   Aug-31-10 02:36 AM   #49 
     - Deleted message  Name removed   Aug-31-10 03:14 AM   #50 
     - graded on a curve, she's done better than Obama and certainly better than Reid  yurbud   Aug-31-10 05:05 AM   #55 
     - Huh? It's approval for the job he is doing, not who he is better/worse than.  great white snark   Aug-31-10 08:41 AM   #60 
  - A horse?  Jeff In Milwaukee   Aug-31-10 08:05 AM   #57 
  - Hint - it's not like major corporations are going to hire massive amounts  TBF   Aug-31-10 02:59 PM   #69 
     - While I agree with you....  Jeff In Milwaukee   Aug-31-10 03:53 PM   #70 
        - Agree completely -  TBF   Sep-01-10 08:49 AM   #75 
  - What if a progressive like Russ Feingold loses? but we hold the senate anyway.  WI_DEM   Aug-31-10 08:29 AM   #58 
  - Not all Progressives are selfish children who take their ball and go home if they're not appeased  Aramchek   Aug-31-10 12:29 PM   #63 
  - It's the economy on election day that will determine if the Democrats hold back the GOP  andym   Aug-31-10 12:45 PM   #65 
  - President Obama needs to present a clear plan to create several million infrastructure jobs now!  Better Believe It   Aug-31-10 05:04 PM   #71 
 

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