Posted on 10/30/2008 10:06:43 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
I thought this might be a good opportunity to offer some thoughts about not only judicial confirmations, but how to bring about meaningful change in this country.By the way the Obama Camp and supporters have pummeled the more moderate Hillary supporters in the primary, The One meant every word of this when he wrote it back in 2005.
Maybe some of you believe I could have made my general point more artfully, but it’s precisely because many of these groups are friends and supporters that I felt it necessary to speak my mind.
There is one way, over the long haul, to guarantee the appointment of judges that are sensitive to issues of social justice, and that is to win the right to appoint them by recapturing the presidency and the Senate. And I don’t believe we get there by vilifying good allies, with a lifetime record of battling for progressive causes, over one vote or position. I am convinced that, our mutual frustrations and strongly-held beliefs notwithstanding, the strategy driving much of Democratic advocacy, and the tone of much of our rhetoric, is an impediment to creating a workable progressive majority in this country.
According to the storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists - a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog - we are up against a sharply partisan, radically conservative, take-no-prisoners Republican party. They have beaten us twice by energizing their base with red meat rhetoric and single-minded devotion and discipline to their agenda. In order to beat them, it is necessary for Democrats to get some backbone, give as good as they get, brook no compromise, drive out Democrats who are interested in “appeasing” the right wing, and enforce a more clearly progressive agenda.
The country, finally knowing what we stand for and seeing a sharp contrast, will rally to our side and thereby usher in a new progressive era.
Glad I searched- was just about to post this:)
Unbelievable post by Obama- and it shows his CLEAR..PROGRESSIVE intentions.
I was under the impression that anyone who might be considered a moderate in the Democratic Party; Sam Nunn, Robert Casey or William Donald Schaffer had been cast from the party long ago.
How many moderate Democrats are there, still in the Dem Party?
We probably have more Republican Actors in Hollywood!
Must reading. Obama and his Daily Kos diary in 2005...
Progressives (faculty and staff) at the universities I have been associated with have already started the process of making it extremely hard or impossible for conservatives to stay employed... Thus, anyone who has a small amount of independent or not along the EXACT Obama line will most likely be the next to be ostracized. That will probably include students many of whom who have already suffered grade deducts as a result of their beliefs.
Where is the FR press list?
This needs to go viral, immediately!
The moderate Dems will not go quietly. If Obama loses, I predict a civil war within the Dem party over control, the PUMAs versus the Obama faction, with the losers being purged.
I promise you there will be no FreeRepublic.com,
Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity when I become president.
I’m counting on Obama’s Communism to drive out a good number of moderates from the Democratic Party, continuing the job Jimmy Carter started. People haven’t yet figured out that they are buying into the biggest grift in the history of this nation, but if we elect this monster, people will start catching on quickly.
Both of them?
Obama writes on daily Kos?
The fringe lunitics are Obama’s base.
The fringe lunatics are Obama’s base.
Thought control in America.
Lenin’s concept of a “party elite” that knows better than ordinary people what’s good for them.
I’ll have to read the rest of this, what Obama is doing is saying what ‘the storyline’ says. Does he agree with it or offer an alternative?
According to the storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists - a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog - we are up against a sharply partisan, radically conservative, take-no-prisoners Republican party.
They have beaten us twice by energizing their base with red meat rhetoric and single-minded devotion and discipline to their agenda. In order to beat them, it is necessary for Democrats to get some backbone, give as good as they get, brook no compromise, drive out Democrats who are interested in “appeasing” the right wing, and enforce a more clearly progressive agenda.
SOMEONE get this to the McCain/Palin camp. They need to wave this around as proof positive that Osama Hussein’s “Unite the country” is a steaming pile of marxist lies.
THis could blow the commie out of the water if someone can get this to the RNC.
Consider your Digg link FRugged!
PS There’s no Digg ping list. If you put the keyword “Digg” in your post, FReepers will know right where to find it.
Thanks again for the ping!
Are you still writing in Fred? I bet you voted for Perot too, didn’t you.
“THis could blow the commie out of the water if someone can get this to the RNC.”
There are moderate democrats who might not be very pleased with it either.
Actually, your Digg link isn’t working...says “fatal exception” each time I try. You might want to try posting it on FR again.
The RNC needs to run a national ad with this in it. Who the hell is in charge of the RNC these days?
This is very interesting. For some reason (maybe this) I’ve had the feeling lately that the re-energized Right should help the REAL Democrats take their party back from the Socialists. Not at the expense of our own party, obviously. I guess I’m old enough to remember when the Democrat party was far to the right of what passes for that party today.
Velveeta, time for us to send more emails!
Actually, you might want to find the Digg link for this and post it as its own FReep this Digg!!! post on FR. We need to change lots of minds between now and the election!
The digg it link didn’t work!
Thanks for the ping!
Read the rest of the article. Obama may be a radical, we know he was in the New Party, but he is not dumb enough to say that moderate democrats should be banished.
He portrays himself as a moderate - read it.
Send it to everyone you know!
Rush is talking about it right now!
Rush just mentioned. ;)
Rather, he portrays himself as a true beleiver, with the smarts to know how to disguise it by minimizing inflammatory rhetoric.
Fascist thug.
Can you help get his out to whoever needs to see it?
PUMA sites, Hill Buzz, Drudge, Just Say No, etc.,
I suggest you send this to johnmccain.com immediately.
Spread it around to anyone and everyone, ESPECIALLY the PUMAs.
Are we sure this isn’t just a user who chose the screen name “Barack Obama”?
Thanks for the new link. I tried to search for it, and had no luck! (Still new at this).
Dugg and commented!
So much for judgement. They showed their far left side and people are running.
I asked, well, what's going to happen to those people that we can't re-educate; that are die-hard capitalists. And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.
You can find this info at this link:
“the storyline that drives many advocacy groups and Democratic activists - a storyline often reflected in comments on this blog”
The pragmatist in me demands that we step back and realize that he is stating what the “storyline” is — that centrists be driven out. Then he goes on to say that this is NOT how things should get done.
Context matters. To claim these are his feelings is tantamount to some Kook’s claim that the Bible says “there is no God”. The Bible DOES indeed say that, but the part where it says “A Fool claims there is no God”, is left out.
This is a non-starter. Stand down.
I won’t disagree with that, but we won’t get anywhere saying Obama wants to ‘banish moderates.’ We’ll just look like idiots.
I agree. In fact, it's not at all difficult to find the original post: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/102745/165/500/153069. Immediately after the excerpted paragraph, Obama goes on: "I think this perspective misreads the American people."
This "Gateway Pundit" blogger is either stupid or intellectually dishonest. Whichever one he is, it's not the kind of thing that I would be urging to go "viral." Because it will just make you (and FR, by association) look stupid or intellectually dishonest.
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