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I agree that Bernstein should resign (4.00 / 1)

But don't believe he supports this.  His attempt at defending this was pathetic and he's too sharp not to know it.  

Obama's BS also sounds like Jimmy Carter.  My question is who will be our Ted Kennedy in 2012?  Unlike 1980, public support for central state based, demand-sided solutions is rising.  A Democratic challenger from the left wouldn't be waging a rearguard battle to preserve a rapidly dissolving New Deal consensus, s/he'd be embracing ideas whose time has clearly come.  

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by: wobbly @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:00:35 PM CST

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I Don't Know Who'd Be Willing (4.00 / 2)

Elizabeth Warren is certainly worth a look.

And there's always Wesley Clark.  

Or Howard Dean.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:05:20 PM CST

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All three are stellar (0.00 / 0)

Pick out of a hat and you have a winner. I think he needs to be primaried also.

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by: abbeysbooks @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:09:21 PM CST

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The More I Think About It (4.00 / 3)

The more I think that a Clark/Warren ticket would be pretty awesome.  He's a general who's a New Deal liberal, and she's a non-politician who's got economics down cold.  After Obama's bomb, it would be a bit hard to put her--a complete political novice in the top slot, but having her at #2 would be a big plus, then give her 8 years as VP...

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:14:53 PM CST

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Warren is great (0.00 / 0)

Clark is an albatross.  Just on the level of selling a politician he is awful.  I never sensed any more charisma on his part than Kerry had, and Kerry actually knew the issues backwards and forwards.  Then there are the deeper worries concerning Clark's behavior in the Balkans, specifically his near run ins with the Russians.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs...

But from what I have seen and heard from Warren she is someone I would vote for.

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by: PTM @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:47:18 PM CST

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I suggested Dean in a very brief diary (4.00 / 1)

that I wrote a few months ago.

He is absolutely not beholden to neoliberal cabal that runs the DLC, and by extension, shapes the agenda for the party as a whole.  Indeed, given his treatment after the election, he has every incentive to reassert his priorities.  

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by: wobbly @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:11:20 PM CST

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Dean (0.00 / 0)

is fully behind the Afghanistan escalation.

Nuff said.  

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by: david mizner @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:39:57 PM CST

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True (4.00 / 3)

but he has a fundamentally different approach to party-building, argued for real health care reform, and has evolved considerably in terms of economic policy.

I'm not dismissing your concerns, but, given what I mention above, all other things being equal, Dean's thinking represents change I can tolerate. Given what we've seen from the Democrats over the past 30 years, that's not insignificant.    

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by: wobbly @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:47:29 PM CST

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Clark was close to Clinton (4.00 / 1)

I don't trust him!

My blog  

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by: Dameocrat @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:20:55 PM CST

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Vote Republican (4.00 / 1)

like I said before.

It worked so well in MA.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:28:19 PM CST

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what did that have to do with a post on not trusting (4.00 / 1)

clark?

My blog  

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by: Dameocrat @ Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 22:29:19 PM CST

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I disagree with both of you here (4.00 / 1)

Neither primarying Obama (which will lead to another '68, obviously), nor supporting a 3rd party candidate (which will lead to another '00, obviously), nor voting Repub (which will lead to another Brown '10, obviously) is the way to go here.

Forget Obama. He's the only non-Repub who can win in '12, and we don't want a Repub president so soon (and no 3rd party candidate can win, obviously). What we DO want, and still have a chance in '10 & '12, is a more progressive Dem majority (even if it means a smaller overall Dem majority), which would force Obama to the left.

He listens to the most powerful and threatening people in the room. Let's become that.

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything...Mankind are forever destined to be the dupes of bold & cunning imposture" -- Alexander Hamilton

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by: kovie @ Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 00:53:10 AM CST

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Obama is essentially a Republican (4.00 / 3)

only when he does their failed policy it gets credited to liberals.

At least when Bush failed it was seen as conservatism failing.  

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by: BDB @ Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 05:44:21 AM CST

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