How Badly Do You Want to Win? (Jan Schakowsky)

[remfan]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=287_0_1_0_C

Do you want a different president in 2004? I’m asking this as a serious question, not a rhetorical one. Do you want it badly enough to actually do what is necessary to win the election that will take place just 17 months from now?

Everywhere I go, everywhere every Democrat goes, we hear, “Where are the Democrats?” I take that challenge seriously, and many of us are working day and night to make ourselves heard, putting together a strategy with members who are willing to use tougher language and “creative” tactics in coordination with outside organizations.

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The nuns wanted to know what could be done to change the state of affairs. I said I thought someone needed to take voter registration forms to every meeting and demonstration and get people fired up to vote. They said that would be hard. Why? Because people were fed up with the Democrats. I said, then they are going to have to get over it, and you are going to have to help them. Because like it or not, either George W. Bush or the Democratic nominee, whoever he may be, will be our next president.

All of you know who I’m talking about; I may be talking about you. We should, by all means, be working to promote a progressive agenda with each and every candidate and to make the nominee as progressive as possible.

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[ameriphile]

1. This article is required reading

for all Americans who care about the future of our country and the future of our children.

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2. I live in the wrong suburb...

To be represented by her. Too bad for me...