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Originally Posted by pinky lee
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You're correct. If it'll make you happy, I will include them all now....all of them:
Warren R. Ashe (D-Virginia) *
Donald P. Award (D-Connecticut) *
Jerry G. Beck (D-Missouri) *
Sanderson Beck (D-California) *
Jim Bollinger (D-Indiana) *
Willie Carter (D-Texas) *
Patrick Cazneau (D-California) *
Randy Crow (D-North Carolina) *
John Estrada (D-Nevada) *
Susan Fey (D-Colorado) *
James I. Glover (D-New Jersey) *
Al Hamburg (D-Wyoming) *
Amanda Lou Hardy (D-DC) *
Alfonzo Jones (D-New York) *
Lyndon LaRouche (D-New York) *
Glenn D. Leaverton (California) *
Sherry Meadows (D-Texas) *
Grady Dean Mollenhauer Jr. (D-New York) *
Fred Ogin (D-Oregon) *
Bill Pearman (D-Indiana) *
Fern Penna (D-New York) *
James J. Prattas (D-Hawaii) *
John Donald Rigazio (D-New Hampshire) *
Adam Safran (D-California) *
Ole S. Savior (D-Minnesota) *
Craig E. Sharp (D-Texas) *
Former Congressman Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) #*
Evelyn L. Vitullo (D-Arizona) *
Lucian J. "Louie" Wojciechowski (California) *
Happy now? Might wanna double check on when they all filed their paper work, too.
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Gephardt was a big blunder there t33boy, he may well win the nomination yet.
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I doubt it.
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And anyone who really follows politics knows Clarke has been jockeying for position since before the Gulf War. But perhaps you are just a dilettante, in that case you are excused.
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And anyone who really follows politics would know that Senators Clinton and Biden were both "jockeying for position" as well, and they have since ruled it out. Clarke would not be running were he not getting the grassroots/financial support he has, nor would he be running if he hadn't done well with some test sampling groups he sat down with. So he can "jockey" all he likes, but he just announced it this week.
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As to the rest of your blather, its a fucking forum. If you put up a thread, don't think you can come bullying around telling people exactly what they can and can't discuss.
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Never once have I told anyone in this thread what they can or can't discuss. The viability of any Democratic candidate is a fine discussion, and I wouldn't dismiss it. But what I ask is that you actually start the conversation, articulate the point, rather than posting some snide remark.
Saying something enough times doesn't necessarily make it true. Conservatives can say "Dean will be McGovern, Dean will be McGovern" all they like, but that doesn't make it true. Just like if I had said "Bush will be Goldwater, Bush will be Goldwater" over and over again, that doesn't make it true.
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If you are discussing candidates for president, their ability to take on the current president is not only relevant, its the ONLY relevant thing. Unless they are just talking to bring up policy points they hope the eventual winner, Bush, will have to respond and react to.
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I sincerely doubt that's what they are doing, but it's kind of why I started this thread. I disagree that the challenge the pose to Bush is the only relevant matter. Historically, it should be of interest to every Democrat/Liberal/Leftist just
who gains Dem. popularity, and in contrast, who favors support from the Party operatives in the DLC. The Democratic Party IS in trouble, and that's what makes an internal debate just as relevant as the debate over who will be president (although the latter just might be a premature debate).
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That may be all they are doing, because basically this election is an exercise in futility for the Dems, who are treading water until 2008 when Hillary runs and takes the party down in flames.
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On what grounds do you make these claims? I'm not a Democrat, nor am I a Hillary fan, but I don't think your argument has any merit at all. It really sounds like partisan grumbling. You don't think Hillary would mobilize an apathetic voter, perhaps one eager to simply put a woman in the White House...? And further, on what grounds are the Dems "treading" right now??? Clearly, most of these candidates stand no chance, and some would represent a wrong path for the Democratic Party, IMO. However, Dean has mobilized immense popularity, considering the void he came from, where most citizens had no clue who he was.
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If this election doesn't, that liberal fest will mark the complete end of the Dem party as a national force. I predict it will break into various feuding components, much like it is now, but with less effect.
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This is a gross over-exaggeration. The Democratic Party is too monied, too much of a corporate-like institution to fracture like this. Our system can currently only sustain to major parties, and the two with the most investment will be the ones in the dance. The DLC, and all of its financial interests, have MUCH decision making power in the Party (which in part contributes to the popularity of a Dean campaign, or even a Kucinich campaign on a considerably lesser scale).
Can you at least expand upon your apocalyptic prediction here....?