Progressive "Working for Change" Runs anti-McKinney column

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Progressive "Working for Change" Runs anti-McKinney column

n a few precincts of American politics, voters still applaud the utterly futile gesture of defiance, the confrontational rhetoric that pleases only true believers, the fist shaken in the face of an opponent who neither notices nor cares. Apparently, such empty gestures -- signs of impotence, really -- have come to be seen as "speaking truth to power."

That helps to explain the remaining, if faltering, appeal of U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., whose supporters are nothing if not naive. They have turned Theodore Roosevelt's maxim -- "Speak softly and carry a big stick" -- upside down.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=21164

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(Cynthia Tucker is editorial page editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She can be reached by e-mail: [email protected].)

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Mon Jul-31-06 07:51 PM
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3. uh huh... do you think it accidently showed up on "Working For Change?"

... there was a thread earlier when it first ran in the AJC.

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10. but, yet, it doesn't

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Mon Jul-31-06 08:12 PM
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11. lol

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Mon Jul-31-06 07:54 PM
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6. "It's the difference between infamy and influence."

Edited on Mon Jul-31-06 07:56 PM by LoZoccolo

If our fellow DUers would take with them only this sentence from the article, rather than trying to argue that the article shouldn't exist, they would find great reward in it.

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Mon Jul-31-06 08:31 PM
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13. And so the sinister tendrils of the DLC

reach into yet another corner of the Democratic party....(snicker)

That column was right on the money.

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