1.0 link 222257 <![CDATA[Al From and the Founding of Today's Majority Democratic Party]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lanny-davis/al-from-and-the-founding_b_222257.html Sometimes a private citizen, someone who has never run for office but has a vision and a political idea, someone who is both stubborn and insightful, can change the course of political history.

Thomas Paine is an example of one such person. His words and ideas literally helped changed the course of U.S. history. In 1776, his first two of four pamphlets "Common Sense" and "The Crisis" -- the latter beginning with the famous opening line, "These are the times...

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