Opting Out of the Progressive Vision

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Friday October 09, 2009 · 10:00 AM PDT

2009/10/09 · 10:00

When I read the argument that we should let states opt-out of the responsibility to protect their citizens with affordable health care, especially posed as revenge of the blue states against their backwards red state neighbors, I thought of Obama's break out speech in 2004. Much as I am disgruntled with Obama the President, go back to that speech by Senator Obama.

E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."

Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us . . . I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America.

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Monday June 22, 2009 · 10:42 AM PDT

2009/06/22 · 10:42

As the son of a now-retired US military officer, I grew up with the benefit of a US public healthcare plan, which included direct care provided by doctors (paid by our government) at military hospitals and clinics. My family and I (like all military families) also enjoyed the option of using insurance the government offered for private doctors of our choice.

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 6:54 PM PDT

2009/04/09 · 18:54

A few months ago one diary noted Jim Gilliam's project Whitehouse2.org, but it popped up and sunk away. So I'm noting it again and inviting progressives to participate. Gilliam was honored in 2008 with Take Back America's second annual Maria Leavey Tribute Award for his behind-the-scenes work building the progressive movement at Brave New Films. Initially, he pitched the site as a tool for Obama's first 100 days: "We're imagining how the White House might work if it was run completely democratically by thousands of people on the internet." But its usefulness goes beyond the first 100 days.

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 8:58 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 08:58

I'm a dorky white guy. Growing up, I loved Star Wars. I spent a lot of time playing video games on a Commodore 64, and for some reason I really liked Phil Collins (I guess I still do). I also liked to skateboard. I'm of European descent, mostly Italian. Most of my family on my father's side is Catholic. My father is a retired Commander in the US Navy. And I have a confession: my middle name is Nuri Amin. It gets worse. In my twenties, I had "Nuri" tattooed on my bicep.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 11:09 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 11:09

Well, I'll qualify that. When it comes to voting in an election, I care more about values than I care about "the facts" or a list of policy proposals. I realized recently, with a strange feeling in the realization, that I'm a "Values Voter." Not the kind you're thinking of. I'm a middle-class, educated, urban, non-gun-toting, pro-women's rights progressive. I attend a church but I'm not a Christian or a theocrat. I'm not a member of the phony "Moral Majority." But I have one thing in common with them, as I bet a lot of DKos readers do.

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 8:18 AM PDT

2008/08/30 · 08:18

McCain's pick of Palin--oh God, another theory about it. Having hit as much as I could from blogs, the verdict is still out on whether she helps or hurts, although the one unanimous conclusion is that McCain's attack of experience vs inexperience just went out the window. The conservative reaction I've read reminded me, however, of 2004.

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 1:49 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 13:49

Missouri state Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was indicted today in connection with a reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after this year’s Legislative session ended.

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 9:13 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 09:13

Early in the primaries, the question of why Obama was winning again and again when, according to the Clintons, he wasn’t offering anything but "Hope" was definitively answered. In the midst of the blood, sweat and tears of the Neverending Primary, I think it's time to pause to remember the strength of Obama’s winning strategy. This article also made a reappearance over at thebigjob.org a new green sprout of a progressive site, rising from the ground made fertile by George Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 11:38 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 11:38

In david mizener’s excellent post he pointed to the defensive posture of the response by Democratic party leaders after Bush’s recent attack on Obama. We need many more posts like this to unlearn the defensiveness and fear decades of conservative attacks have ingrained in progressives in general and Democrats in particular. As a result of this defensiveness and even fearfulness, the Democratic reputation is not one of being FOR anything, only AGAINST things. If Obama and other Dem leaders are always on the defensive—not matter how "rapid" the response—citing etiquette or unfairness or dirty tactics, or simply issuing denials, John McCain will win. He will.

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Amen!

20 votes

Almost, I'll be posting my own ideas

1 vote

Wrong

6 votes

Just tell the truth, that will be heard

1 vote

The truth will not set us free, there must be framing and strategy behind it

8 votes

Agree, but the Dems aren't ready to pull it off.

2 votes

Get ready for President McCain...

6 votes

MSM and the "Liberal Elite"

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 7:42 AM PDT

2008/04/24 · 07:42

I recently read a post (from August) by Kos that asked people to stop referring to the large media outlets as MSM. He argues that MSM is a conservative concoction and that

more importantly, by calling them "mainstream media", we are saying that we ourselves aren't mainstream, and that's not something I'm willing to concede.

I think he’s right there, but he suggests that "traditional media" take its place (with the possible alternative of corporate media) and I'm not sure I agree.

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Corporate media

24 votes

Traditional media

2 votes

Corporate Media Elite

4 votes

Conservative Media

1 vote

MSM

4 votes

Old Media

5 votes

Commercial media

2 votes

Braindead megaphones (copyright George Saunders)

5 votes

None of the above

6 votes

Lakoff's Rockridge Institute Folds

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Monday April 21, 2008 · 8:23 AM PDT

2008/04/21 · 08:23

The think tank Progressives desperately need has sent out an email announcing that they are folding for lack of funding. This news is sad indeed.

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 8:29 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 08:29

An excellent endorsement article written by Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich
http://www.thenation.com/...

Includes a link to Progressives for Obama
http://progressivesforobama.blogspot...

excerpt below

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Opting Out of the Progressive Vision

America's Government Health System

Join Whitehouse2

Confessions of a Man with a Funny Name

I Don't Care About Facts and Policies

Palin is another Edwards?

Another Republican Sex Scandal

Why Obama Won and Will Continue To Win

Will Dems Win or Lose in 2008?

MSM and the "Liberal Elite"

Lakoff's Rockridge Institute Folds

Progressives for Obama Must Read