Who's your favorite progressive politician?

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Poll question: Who's your favorite progressive politician?

[Rowdyboy]

1. I got the first vote in for Wes

next to Dennis Kucinich, the most liberal candidate in 2004.

"Wes Clark: All Patriot, No Act"

[BikeWriter]

3. ...and a damned good General! n/t

[firebee]

4. Personally.... Barack Obama's the only one that really stood out

However, I want to see if he can swing the congress on striking some of the legislation implemented over the last four years and I also want to see what kind of legislation he introduces, even if it doesn't make it to the floor. I think Barack Obama is going to be an instrumental speaker for the people in the congress.

I don't want to see Barack Obama attack the congress venomously. I want to see Obama attack the neoconservative ideology while promoting a new ideologoy of economic progress in the labor market, progress in health care and progress in alternative fuels, which will ultimately win the war.... FOR OIL.

If Barack Obama can swing a Republican controlled congress from a neoconservative ideology to a progressive ideology, the congress may come to realize what we've know for quite some time now.. That being the impeachment of this entire Presidential administration and all the absolutely corrupt cohorts they're dealing with.

[loveable liberal]

2. me. n/t

[njdemocrat106]

5. Tie: John Kerry and Jon Corzine

Kerry's still my main man, and I think New Jersey has a great progressive senator in Corzine.

[Piperay]

6. Barbara Boxer

my very own Senator! :thumbsup:

[flordehinojos]

7. i love al sharpton's fiercely simple way of truth telling. Listening to

him is like seeing a fresh flower in the field.

[eridani]

9. Me too, but is he a politician?

Don't you have to have held an elected office for that?

[flordehinojos]

10. he was in the run for the nomination of the democratic party's

presidential contender.

[Peter Frank]

8. Got to be Sharpton...

The man says it like it is.

[Mr.Green93]

11. Henry Wallace

A true Progressive and visionary.

[imabadman]

12. Bill Mahr

[newyawker99]

17. Hi imabadman!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[imabadman]

19. Thank you

btw, my wife is from New York.

[PST]

13. Joe Biden nt

[LWolf]

14. Define progressive;

I don't consider all on your list to fit the bill. My favorite is there, far ahead of the rest of the field.

[firebee]

18. Progressive

I always assumed progressive meant promoting educational progress, scientific progress, economic progress and civil progress...

Some progressive issues would be

advancing scientific progress in alternative fuels.
promoting progress in stem cell research.
promoting economic progress in the labor market.
promoting progress in education through reform of our educational curriculum and better funding.
and finally, progressing international peace through the use of the U.N. and various international treaties.

Most importantly, we need progress made in civil governance, which means taking a progressive stance against the religious terms legislated by the federal government, such as "marriage". Marriage is of the church, civil contracts are of a civil government.

[LWolf]

24. Good definition.

The progressive issues that drive me include:

public education; here is one long definition: http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/articles/proged.html
It's clear, reading through that presentation, that progressive education has been under heavy-duty fire from all sides, including democrats and including many "progressive" politicians.

international peace: it begins at home with peaceful American people, and a domestic focus on peace and prosperity, imo. I'd love to see the DOP gain support in Congress.

sustainable, earth-friendly energy and food production/consumption

health care, including mental health and alternative medicine, as a right, not a privelege, and not for profit

a living wage

election reform in the form of equal funding and media exposure for all candidates, IRV, proportional representation...

A separation of $$ and power. Or corporations and political power. Progress in building and growing independent business.

I could go on, but this is enough for now.

How many of these issues do the progressive politicians above address?

[cali]

15. Bernie Sanders

is a true Progressive, a man of guts and heart, who always speaks out for progressive causes and has been doing so for a very long time.

[LuCifer]

16. TIM RYAN!

I hop I is spel dat rite!!!

He is one to watch!

I say Ryan/Obama '08!!!!!!

Lu Cifer, now I got that "SAME PEOPLE WHO SAID..." speach in my head, oh man did that ROCK!

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Tied between Dennis, Cynthia, and Bernie Sanders

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Liberal and darned proud about it!
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[satori]

21. General Wesley Clark

General Wesley Clark is a progressive because he is not afraid of calling himself a liberal. He is a new form a liberal one that is not a career politician. He is smart and trustworthy and I have no doubts Karl Rove's worst nightmare because of these outstanding qualifications.

[Forkboy]

22. Barney Frank

[Lenape85]

23. Tie between Feingold, Kucinich, and Sanders