An Example for Democrats (Do Democrats need LEADER to march to victory?)

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An example for the Democrats?

Jules Witcover, The Examiner
May 24, 2006 7:00 AM

BALTIMORE - As the Democratic Party marches toward the congressional elections in November with confident visions of taking control of one or both houses of Congress, one fact shades their optimism: They have no dynamic drum major leading their parade.


The Democratic front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination in the polls, Sen. Hillary Clinton, is golden in New York but elsewhere is often seen as polarizing. With some voters, it’s merely the idea of a woman as president; with others it’s a perception of arrogance and all-knowing about her.

Within her own party, the former first lady is suspect among liberal activists for seeming to emulate her husband, retired President Bill Clinton, in tacking conspicuously to the center of the political spectrum, as he did in winning easy reelection in 1996.

Other prospective aspirants to the nomination all lack, at this stage at least, the political standing or charisma to take their place at the head of the Democratic drive for a congressional takeover this fall.

The situation is not unlike that encountered by the Republican Party 40 years ago, when the Democrats controlled Congress but were falling in voter confidence, in the wake of the Vietnam War and growing public protest about the direction of the country.



So do Democrats need a leader? SO many key Dem figures with different ideas leave members a little confused. Should we march to the same beat?


more at.....
http://www.examiner.com/a-117175~Jules_Witcover__An_example_for_the_Democrats_.html

[Demeter]

1. IMO, We Need Policies That All Support

Universal Single Payer Comprehensive Health Care
Equal Rights for All
Fiscal Sanity
Civil Service: No Cronies, Hacks or Brownies
No Torture, Renditions, PreEmptive Wars or Punitive Global Health Policies or Economic Policies
Fair Trade (as opposed to the "free trade" which is destroying the world economy)


Anyone Else care to add to the list?


And then it will be obvious who our leaders are: They will implement these policies!