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In reply to the discussion: If HRC runs in 2016, who should be the pro-worker, pro-peace, pro-justice candidate in the race? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)82. OWS didn't "fade away"...it was crushed by police brutality.
And there's no good reason for any Democrat to be happy about OWS being crushed by state violence(and it's unforgivable that any "liberal" mayors took part in the crushing, since only the right wing and the richest of rich white men gained from it), since nothing positive came from that act of suppression. The story isn't over there, yet, though. The depth of feeling still exists, as does the desire for greater democracy. A new form will be found to carry that fight on.
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If HRC runs in 2016, who should be the pro-worker, pro-peace, pro-justice candidate in the race? [View all]
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
OP
Does get fucking tiring, doesn't it? Yet people that post shit like this are considered the
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#88
...and electing a Republican who takes the wrong stance isn't a win either...
brooklynite
Jan 2013
#15
No, and in fact I've already reached out to another prospective candidate...
brooklynite
Jan 2013
#24
So you believe that the net result of the President's first term has been a negative?
brooklynite
Jan 2013
#51
In the end, all "prevention of regression" achieves is the reduction of regression.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#147
YOur post is delusional. The majority of americans call themselves moderates.
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#90
If Cuomo did nothing but austerity as governor, he'll do nothing but austerity as president.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#22
Budget deficits have to be dealt with. Cuomo is enacting policy that reduce deficits while
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#92
Probably because they are not RFK, hardly remember Dad, and have moved on to the 21st century
Hekate
Jan 2013
#106
Grayson and Warren are not going to run, there wont be a serious candidate with a realistic
JI7
Jan 2013
#29
A progressive candidate in the Dem primaries isn't like backing Nader or Roseanne in the fall
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#37
"Progressive ideas" may be popular, but when you put a face to that progressive....
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#41
Okay, I'll kick your thread one last time. I have no "grudge against" progressives. Hell, I used..
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#56
Not a valid characterization of progressives at all-and a slander against most of the poor, btw.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#110
Your post is what used to separate us from teabaggers. Cheers to you for a most excellent analysis.
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2013
#124
I am a Hillary supporter, but you make a great point that someone should run from the left of her.
hrmjustin
Jan 2013
#34
Welcome to DU. We have posters here that don't realistically look at politics,
bluestate10
Jan 2013
#98
A race where HRC was nominated with no one else in the primaries would be passionless.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#102
I didn't list those people as running mate possibilities, OR assume she'd be nominated. n/t.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#68
By asking people for running mates for Clinton, you are assuming she will be the nominee
davidpdx
Jan 2013
#83
Sen Warren should stay in the Senate and Grayson is unrealistic as far as winning
WI_DEM
Jan 2013
#53
Well, despite the order I listed the names, Grayson wasn't actually my FIRST choice
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#72
Don't be so sure...we really aren't "a center-right country"...and no Dem should believe that we are
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#67
Waste of taxpayer money for anyone else to run. Especially if the others are in office
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#76
President Obama picked Warren and gave her the victory with his coattails.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#78
let's just say I disagree about LBJ, I think it was the people that messed up a winnable race in 68
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#85
John Kitzhaber or Jerry Brown. Just no more 3rd Way Centrist Clintons,
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2013
#86
If we have to go down in flames, couldn't we do it with a competent candidate?
brooklynite
Jan 2013
#122
You're right about Obama...He was not as progressive as he led us to believe.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#115
That, and they'll dredge up Whitewater and exhume Vince Foster all over again. n/t.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#144