I just heard that Barack Obama and Hillary voted no on the supplemental, but they voted after enough votes had been cast to pass the measure.
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To be fair it was never going to be close. It was 80-14. It’s not like they didn’t know all 49 Republicans and Lieberman weren’t voting with the President.
Edwards is looking better all the time w/ Gore in 2nd. Obama & Clinton are fading.
Chief — I think you’re right. I’m sad about Obama, but I don’t think he’s ready.
“…critics of the Dems will reply: “They just don’t have any backbone.†But why don’t they? The answer is not that Dems are less decent human beings or less principled than their Republican colleagues who, even in the minority, keep disciplined focus on their own principles (in this case, militarism until Iraq is safe for our oil companies and other corporate bandits).
“It’s rather that the Dems lack a coherent vision and ideology from which they could derive strength of purpose that would provide the foundation on which they could easily develop a moral backbone to fight for what they believe in. Thus, for example in relationship to the war in Iraq, they talk about the inability to win, rather than about the moral failure of the paradigm of trying to bring about safety and security by military or political domination of other countries.
“While Republicans proudly cling to their own ideology, Dems have allowed the term “liberal†to become a political curse, not because they ever lost an intelligent argument about liberalism, but because they have been unwilling to fight for it. They are liberal about their liberalism. So why should anyone trust the country’s defense to people who won’t fight for themselves or their own views?”
Not a new idea, but we saw how the lack of a coherent, unabashed liberal ideology cost us this week.
both hillary and obama have triangulated their way out of my interest and respect. i thought obama might have something, but he’s turning out to be all flash and no substance.
The U.S. military announced today the deaths of six more soldiers in Iraq, hours after President Bush predicted a “bloody” summer lay ahead.
I just heard that Barack Obama and Hillary voted no on the supplemental, but they voted after enough votes had been cast to pass the measure.
That’s what I thought they would do. Is there an article somewhere stating this?
To be fair it was never going to be close. It was 80-14. It’s not like they didn’t know all 49 Republicans and Lieberman weren’t voting with the President.
Edwards is looking better all the time w/ Gore in 2nd. Obama & Clinton are fading.
Chief — I think you’re right. I’m sad about Obama, but I don’t think he’s ready.
I think this article by Rabbi Michael Lerner cuts to the heart of it, Funding and Crying: Why The Dems Capitulated To One of The Least Popular Presidents in US History to Support One of The Least Popular Wars in US History—A Response From The Religious Left. Excerpt:
“…critics of the Dems will reply: “They just don’t have any backbone.†But why don’t they? The answer is not that Dems are less decent human beings or less principled than their Republican colleagues who, even in the minority, keep disciplined focus on their own principles (in this case, militarism until Iraq is safe for our oil companies and other corporate bandits).
“It’s rather that the Dems lack a coherent vision and ideology from which they could derive strength of purpose that would provide the foundation on which they could easily develop a moral backbone to fight for what they believe in. Thus, for example in relationship to the war in Iraq, they talk about the inability to win, rather than about the moral failure of the paradigm of trying to bring about safety and security by military or political domination of other countries.
“While Republicans proudly cling to their own ideology, Dems have allowed the term “liberal†to become a political curse, not because they ever lost an intelligent argument about liberalism, but because they have been unwilling to fight for it. They are liberal about their liberalism. So why should anyone trust the country’s defense to people who won’t fight for themselves or their own views?”
Not a new idea, but we saw how the lack of a coherent, unabashed liberal ideology cost us this week.
both hillary and obama have triangulated their way out of my interest and respect. i thought obama might have something, but he’s turning out to be all flash and no substance.
The U.S. military announced today the deaths of six more soldiers in Iraq, hours after President Bush predicted a “bloody” summer lay ahead.
I just heard that Barack Obama and Hillary voted no on the supplemental, but they voted after enough votes had been cast to pass the measure.
That’s what I thought they would do. Is there an article somewhere stating this?