Reply #11: Unfortunate crossroads being reached here

[ewagner]

I'm afraid that we've reached an unfortunate crossroads in the life of our party. We've reached the point where we can not have a win/win for both factions of the party. Somebody will have to lose...something...for my money, the Vernon Jordan faction of the party needs to be the loser. If you remember in Jom Hightower's book, he talked about Vernon Jordan at the 1996 convention where Jordan spoke to a group of Democrats and told them that when he (Jordan, as a lobbyist) brought Corporate Execs in to see the President of the United States, he wanted to bring them in to see a "...Democratic President instead of a Republican President..." The book also noted that many of the events (breakfasts, conferences, etc) were sponsored by corporations. Hence, corps and lobbyists have too much influence on the party and grassroots have too little influence....

This has to change.

Dean can be the vehicle for that change.

But, unfortunately, the corporatists will have to lose.....

(note:flame retardant suit on)