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Posted by: populist 1 year, 1 month ago

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Today's Democratic Party came here in the night from some other planet. Someday we can only hope that the real ones will return. You will know them by the scars on their knuckles, the steel in their eyes, the sand in their gut - by their spirit, their drive, their compassion for the poor.

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aniokly1 year, 1 month ago

The once great Democrat party was sabataged in 1961, and it is not coming back. Todays Democrats could not shine the shoes of FDR, and JFK. They are gutless wonders. One trick ponies, if you will. My Grandmother told be before I cast my first vote, "If you ever vote Republican, don't tell Papa, it will kill him!" They really believed in what the Democratic party stood for, what ever that was is long gone from todays party.
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  populist1 year, 1 month ago
  
  I think it happened before '61, but either way, things sure aren't how they should be with the dems...
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aniokly1 year, 1 month ago

The old-time Democrats stood for this country. I cannot imagine the Democrats of 1941, cutting the funds out from under our troops. They stood for the working man, no NAFTA, or illegal alien Amnesty for them. A pity they are gone.
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  questionseverything1 year, 1 month ago
  
  they r still the only ones that stand up for the working man and while i didnt like nafta,letting china into the wto with out any protection for the american worker happened on ws shift and lands squarely on the backs of the repubs
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    bobo-in-texas1 year, 1 month ago
    
    Umm, that was all thanks President Clintons diligent leadership. But he's not a real Democrat, is he?
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      TCmuench1 year, 1 month ago
      
      Bill Clinton wasn't really the president, Hillary was
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      Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
      
      No, he's not, and thanks for pointing that out. Bill was a symptom of a disease seen on both sides of the aisle- he is a creature not committed either to his ideals or to the common good of Americans, but only to the fatbastard corporations which put him in power. Dems like this are called "New Democrats." What do you call the traitorous lickspittles on the republican side of the aisle?
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      questionseverything1 year ago
      
      nafta was under clinton but china entered the wto under bush,same week as sept 11
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ChefEOD1 year, 1 month ago

Not a bad article populist. Would you give the same consideration for those of us who also feel the Republican Party has been hijacked? Hijacked by those who claim to be conservative but are so in name only. And both parties, Republican more so I believe, have those who claim to be Christians and try to benefit from that recognition but whose actions are certainly not Christ like. The truth is we are all being taken for a ride by many of today's politicians.
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  populist1 year, 1 month ago
  
  some excellent points. the republican party has gone through just that as well. It's the nature of the beast, isn't it? Politicians just grandstand to get attention, votes - and power, but seem to do little that actually upholds the values of those who voted them in office...
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    cosmogenium1 year, 1 month ago
    
    Both "sides" should feel like they've been taken, because it's the corporatists who have taken over. They only care about their bottom lines and will do anything to improve them while doing nothing for the workers or the constituents of their puppets in government.
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  AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Do you believe that elections in 2008 will change anything? I am not sure.
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    populist1 year, 1 month ago
    
    I don't - I see the establishment on both sides as being happy with the status quo.
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      TCmuench1 year, 1 month ago
      
      "Establishment", another '60s term but you are right, nothing will change whoever comes out on top in '08.
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  Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
  
  Yep. The republican party is no longer conservative, the Dem party no longer liberal. They talk the same crap to their bases of support, but look at their actions - they are both corporatist parties.
  Two flavors of fascism.
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    populist1 year, 1 month ago
    
    differences in rhetoric only...
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Goppy1 year, 1 month ago

You know, I really hates it when commenters talk bout Christian Conservatives.
first of all, we dont believe in evolution, so you commentin bout draggin our knuckels really really offends us. Cause that implys we came from apes.
We Dint come from apes.
Christian Conservatives are like a precious idea - an idea that can be compared to a newly fertilezed egg - a gelatenous jiggly mass of un-formed matter that has potention to become something - if all goes well.
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TCmuench1 year, 1 month ago

I usually don't agree with anything from this source but I have to here; the last of the true democratic was JFK. I remember his most famous line (not quite verbadem) "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you a can do for your country"
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  AmericanIdiot1 year, 1 month ago
  
  And look what happened to JFK. Who has the guts to risk all? I can't think of one.
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    TCmuench1 year, 1 month ago
    
    Gotta agree with you again. Thats twice in one week :)
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JoseMadre1 year, 1 month ago

Sounds like more Hillary-like excuses for failure.
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