I'm Going to Make a Prediction Here: Hillary's Toast
By Dave LindorffFor two years now, I have been telling people who insisted that Hillary Clinton would be the next Democratic candidate for president that they were wrong. I even put it in writing a few...
View ArticleObama and Progressive Change
By Dave Lindorff I don’t want to overstate the case for Barack Obama, who has been fairly circumspect about his intentions if elected. While saying he is against the Iraq War, he has not acted very...
View ArticleWhy BlueDog Democrats Make Me Sick
Matt Stoller blogs about Democrat Bill Foster's special election campaign in IL-14 for the open seat vacated by Denny Hastert. For some unfathomable reason, Foster is embracing the Blue Dogs because he...
View ArticleOn Waking Sleeping Giants
By Dave LindorffDuring my six-year sojourn in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, one of the things I came away with was a sense of how generally un-nationalistic and non-patriotic the Chinese people...
View ArticleFinding Voters 'Bitter and Frustrated,' Obama is Sounding Like Nader
By Dave Lindorff I haven’t lived in rural Pennsylvania or in rural Indiana, but I have lived in rural upstate New York, in towns where there are so few Democrats that on some local election ballots,...
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BushDemocrat Endorsement #1: Regina Thomas GA12
I just got off the phone State Senator Regina Thomas, and I can't tell you how excited I am! Thomas is running against BushDemocrat John Barrow in Georgia's 12th District in a primary on July 15, just...
View ArticleWhy Do "Conservative" Democrats Support Warrantless Wiretapping?
I cannot for the life of me understand why any Democrat would vote for warrantless wiretapping. I can easily understand why every Republican would. Republicans fully support the Bush Dictatorship in...
View ArticleThe War Criminals Cannot Define the Democratic Party
I haven't weighed in on Obama's choice for Vice President, but DLC founder Al From just made it easy with this quote in support of Evan Bayh: "The antiwar people cannot define the Democratic Party,"...
View ArticleOh yeah...Remembering the War and Other National and Global Crises
By Dave Lindorff The ongoing and deepening global economic crisis, to which Barack Obama owes his presidential election victory, is no small thing, to be sure. It also presents us on the left with a...
View ArticleGloomy Outlook from Business Experts
By Dave Lindorff Amid the news that retail sales have fallen for the fourth straight month, that housing prices continue to slump, and that another 600,000 workers were laid off in the month of...
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