liberaldemdave's Comments (116)

“There have been several women and handicapped speakers..­. wasn't the head of GLAAD, who addressed the group a few years ago, Hispanic?”

“Because they knew Lieberman could/probby would win....as did I, and Clinton, and Harry Reid, etc.

Joe had a lot of friends in Senate, a lot of power...po­werful Dems didn't want to alienate/tick him off, knowing that he would indeed continue to vote Dem on most things (besides the war), and they didn't want him to actually switch & be a GOP member.

At that time, every seat was critical to the Dems, and, knowing he would win, an Independent Joe was a far better prospect than s GOP Joe.”

“You'rr welcome. The truth is frequently painful.”

“Anyone who uses the word "messiah" when discussing the president immediately loses all credibility.”

“But a lot of Democrats don't necessarily agree with the public option. Seriously, what would stop small business owners from dropping their health coverage, forcing employees onto a public plan? A public option sounds like a good idea, but in practice it's bound to be more nuanced than what I've been hearing from the far left advocates.”

“What message are you referring to? Much of the media at its very core is clearly conservative, and it sure is pushing the Republican message, especially where health care reform is concerned. Also, people with conservative views tend to control the media, not the progressives? Those who control decisions made in insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, the war industry, and Wall Street also dominate and control the media as well as most politicians. How can the president of the United States make decisions against the will of those powerful interests? Such interests don't want a public option because it will eat into their profits, and it's is pressure put on Obama by those interests that accounts for his support for the public option one day and his wavering the next. How would you govern, if you were president, in the face of all that power, especially knowing that it was the money from those powerful interests that led to your election as president of the United States, not the comparative pennies given to you by the people? Such knowledge likely accounts for Obama's choices to bailout Wall Street investment banks, to continue the wars from which powerful interests profit, to deliberately overlook the massive crimes committed by the Bush administration, to support FISA legislation protecting the telecom outlaws, and to provide no support at all to the ultimately jettisoned Bankruptcy bill. In sum, Obama listens to the most powerful, not the least powerful.”

“you sound more interested in arguing just to be argumentative.

call it a dixie cup if it makes you feel better...a­ll i know is that i want FULL EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS.”

“BTW, it ain't "inflammatory" to call it gay marriage.

There is nothing demeaning about the word "gay" or the word "marriage.­"

Honestly, the euphemizing of political correctness really does get in the way of political reality.”

“In the real world of the mainstream, which ain't lefty PC blogs, it's gay marriage.

You want to win, don't pretend that your "framing" matters one bit.”

“"your post refers to dadt AND doma....'s­upreme court unneccessary legal brief' was regarding DOMA,"

No. The Obama administration filed an unnecessary legal brief arguing that DADT is a good policy that's in the rational interest of the military.”

“That's not what most people call it. That's the new PC term.

Sorry, you want to win an election, you have to communicate with the mainstream.”

“I'm not mixing them up. My post refers to DADT.

"That's just not the case when it comes to DADT."”

“I think that the term "same-sex marriage advocates" would have worked just as well. That's what came to mind when I read it anyway.”

“Does anybody outside the gay movement call gay marriage marriage equality? I don't think so.”