klondiker's Comments (3571)

“They aren't?”

“I was thinking about this also. Here's an interesting scenario:

The Republican party in 2012 is able to fight back the teabagger idiots enough to run a not quite insane candidate like Mitt Romney. Palin in her quest to inflate her ego until it blocks the sun runs as an independent, destroying the Republicans. Dean could run as an independent and actuall have a chance of forming a legitimate progressive third party with a good chance of winning.

He would have to run head on and unapologetically excoriating Obama for selling out to corporate interests, abandoning the core principles of law and justice, and aiding and abetting war crimes by obstructing justice and failing to uphold his duties to prosecute torturers and war criminals. By 2012 more information on the crimes of the Bush administration should be in public view and Obama's obstructionism and extension of unconstitutional Bush policies will have eroded his cult of personality to the point where real progressives can no longer support him.

The progressives are the organizers and workers who got Obama elected against huge odds and if they focused their attention on a legitimate third party... who knows?”

“Obama has been right of center since day one because that's what Rahm Emanuel and the other DLC adherents have convinced him that's what the country wants. Obama needs to move left of center or he'll lose his base and maybe his re-election.”

“Dr. Dean will WIN because he has the backing of the progressives.......he doesn't need any other backing....”

“Mary Landrieu is GONE!”

“So what was the point of having Dean on? So Mary could l i e and Chris would let her?”

“Yes, I did it was sickening.”

“She did a pitiful job of defending her position.”

“There wasn't even a compromise on single payer because it was never treated seriously.”

“Dean is correct!! KILL THE BILL! It's an insurance company bonanza. Sure more people will get coverage, but everyone else will see premiums will continue spiral upwards. They already told us that. And what good is prohibiting 'preexisting' if to cover it they can be charged up to 3 times the normal premium? The bill is so weak in terms of protecting the already insured that it seems bogus to call it reform. What people want to see is congress TAKE ON THE INSURANCE COMPANIES and show them who's really boss and curtail their unfair practices. Every time something of any significance was proposed, even lowering the age for medicare, republicans and insurance companies threw left hooks and dems failed to duck every time.”

“klondiker this is dbcooperisalive - your are right on.”

“In some measure it is thanks to Dean that the Democrats have this wonderful majority that they are so successfully squandering...”

“Rumors came out about a year before.”

“I love Kristen Wiig's Kathie Lee Griffith's Today Show, too. Couldn't be better.”

“and they threw dean under the bus immediately. I see a 3rd party possibility getting stronger.”

“Absolutely. No Dean in 2004? No Obama in 2008. Trust me on that.”

“in charge of the congress? Hmm. I must have read the wrong constitution.”

“Hear, hear.”

“2nd that”

“Exactly.”

“Exactly!”

“yup”

“Especially when watching cartoons will lead to lots of full length features and video games and theme parks based on those cartoons. Of course any kid would HAVE to oppose all that. That would be way too much fun for the kid who wanted it all...”

“The most civilized countries gave sex workers a lot of respect. The workers themselves -- women and men -- were trained entertainers, often the only truly educated people outside of the higher classes that could afford their services.

I'd like that to return. And it can, one house at a time, if respect is both offered and demanded by the people who protect the workers. Of course, any madams that have tried offering their workers better conditions are usually the ones raided and paraded around on the news.

Not because they service exciting, newsworthy people -- those people should be able to protect the service. They get busted *because* they consider themselves, and their employees, the equals of their clients. Oh, big no-no -- how dare they consider themselves human?”

“Do not disagree with any thing you said it truly is a complex and at times dangerous and perplexing subject. My main point is that it is just as degrading to a man as a woman no matter who is the prostitute.”

“If you have enough US books to fill it, I solute you!”