We need a leader.

[kentuck]

Pure and simple. No one in the House or Senate is stepping up to the task. Simply running for president or pretending to run for president does not do the trick. We need someone that can unite our Party. Someone that offers a different vision for our country.

I do not see it coming from a Senator - any Senator. We need someone that speaks more populist and speaks to the working people and the middle class and is not afraid to speak out against the corporations or the war in Iraq. We need someone with courage that is not looking at the next election.

We need a leader that will challenge the decisions of the present Administration and speak in blunt English about it. We do not need the ambivalence that is so prevalent in most of our politicians today. Is there such a leader out there?

[Tiggeroshii]

1. NO Senator?

Not even Kennedy?

[faithfulcitizen]

2. Imo, we alreadly have one....

<= see avatar. ;)

[jeff30997]

3. Pick me ! Pick me !

Nah,I wouldn't want that job for all the Halliburton gold in the world.

:puke:

[alpaca]

4. Agree, but

even if someone stepped up, would the media give him/her any air time?

[patrice]

5. I think whoever it is, s/he should Educate everyone as s/he goes

through the campaign process, and Honesty should take priority over getting votes . . . .

And s/he should implement, and be held accountable for, INCLUSION of as many people as possible, especially into "power" enclaves where they've been previously excluded - call it an Affirmative Action for Congress itself.

[firefox]

14. That is a big statement

That is what is bad about the power of the incumbent in races. It often keeps candidates from running in primaries and it even means some incumb ents do not have opposition from the other side of the duopoly. People are going to have to run just so that the populist message of get real gets through.

That is what is sad about the other parties too. With all the hay they could make if they just took one thing like busting up the media to the campaign trail.

Winning isn't everything and winning is going to be an impossibility at times. Debate and penetrating media control is everything especially when the representatives are so far away from what the public believes and wants.

Never Re-elect Anyone and create a wind for new blood into public offices.

[patrice]

17. Media Reform could be a very unifying Focus.

especially since that includes the Internet, and issues like Accessibility and Free Speech.

We're working to get AAR here in K.C.

[w13rd0]

6. I feel that...

...our constant need to have this need for a "savior of the democratic party" when combined/contrasted with our less-lockstep, more-individualism perspective on the world, does us a disservice. The GOP can do that kind of crap, they have an easy time denying reality and ignoring faults in their messiahs. Us, not so much. Hell, witness this website, where the hero of last week is this weeks paraiah, and next week he'll be a hero again. We're too big of a tent to be led by just one person. So we suffer from cooks in the kitchen syndrome.

[understandinglife]

7. "Draft" Congressman John Conyers -- Massive DU Activist effort.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4975921

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=23663&mesg_id=23663


Peace.

[ladjf]

12. Why not. He speaks out more clearly than any other Dem.

[understandinglife]

15. Precisely. Here's my latest open plea ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4991363&mesg_id=4991363


Peace.

[YDogg]

8. Not a belly-itcher.

:dunce:

[kentuck]

9. Ufortunately, they cannot be drafted or swayed to be a leader...

They just are. They make their own news. They don't need the "media". They touch the people. But is there such a person?

[lpbk2713]

10. Somebody from Show Biz maybe?

Seriously.


It worked for Raygun and it worked for Ahnuld. They have the name recognition and people admire them for whatever reasons.


I wonder what it would take to get Clint Eastwood to switch over to the Dem side?

[ladjf]

11. An American Chavez?

[Xithras]

13. I've said the same thing here several times.

Most here disagree. IMO, the focus should be on the people, not the party. We need a vocal, vibrant leader who can get plenty of face time on CNN and LEAD. What we have today is a whole crowd of people who collectively represent the party.

Here's an experiment. Ask a bunch of Republicans to identify a "great Republican leader", and 2/3rds will name George Bush. Ask Democrats, without qualification, to name a great Democratic leader and half will name Bill Clinton. The other half is all over the map.

Our lack of coherent leadership costs us focus, and without focus we can't get any message across.

[Az]

16. Not a leader. We need Leaders. And that means standing up

Standing up for the things that are right. No matter if they are popular or not. A leader is someone that champions an idea and presents it before the people.