I enjoyed your stuff Dave (0.00 / 0)

I was peripherally aware of Seeing the Forrest, and used to read Perlstein at CAF but not familiar with your work.  I like the bold questions and the bigger liberal ideas you take on.  

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by: Daniel De Groot @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 22:45:14 PM UTC

I just started with CAF (0.00 / 0)

My first day was a week ago Monday.

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by: DaveJ @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 22:54:28 PM UTC

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Great job (4.00 / 1)

We definitely need people pushing the envelope - asking us to think about things even if they seem politically unfeasible right now.  A great deal of the strength of the conservative movement came from doing that for decades.  

Bravo.

Politics is the art of the possible, but that means you have to think about changing what is possible, not that you have to accept it in perpetuity.

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by: David Kaib @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 23:35:37 PM UTC

Thanks for your though provoking posts (0.00 / 0)

I even thing I found Seeing the Forest through Incoming Signals. I think I was visiting it before I stumbled onto Daily Kos. I think I bounced between your site and Crooked Timber. Never getting the two straighten out in my mind.

Thanks Again

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by: JugOPunch @ Wed Jul 29, 2009 at 23:54:50 PM UTC

Your real test (0.00 / 0)

Is whether you nail that question about Adlai Stevenson's gubernatorial administration for us at pub trivia.

Seriously, thanks for helping us out, Dave. See you in Pittsburgh.


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by: Adam Bink @ Thu Jul 30, 2009 at 01:53:36 AM UTC

Thanks for all your great posts (4.00 / 1)

I've enjoyed reading your posts here. I appreciate that your writing is not as constrained by Realpolitik as are many of us that have focused primarily on election-watching before 2009. I find that I agree with just about everything you post, but it is still thought-provoking. I will definitely be checking out your home blog.

The last month or so of national politics has been tough to watch. The limits of electoral victory are starting to sink in. It seems like the break in GOP hegemony has given us a chance to look in and see the face of power with it's mask off, and it has been ugly and disturbing to see the lengths to which hegemonic power will go to protect its interest if a real threat is perceived. I guess we should pat ourselves on the back for at least being threatening, but it is a long way from real change.

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by: Mark Wallace @ Thu Jul 30, 2009 at 04:22:43 AM UTC

Thanks (0.00 / 0)

Hi Dave

Thanks for mixing things up.

Hope you come back and blog some more !

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by: Katie @ Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 05:00:37 AM UTC