Big question for the blog leaders, Markos, Plutonium, Hunter.. etc

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 12:39 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 12:39

This may seem vague, but I've been wondering, how many of 'us' are out there with relation to Democrats as a whole?

The straw poll prompted this questions because Clinton does not do well in this or the DailyKos polls, but she is the presumptive frontrunner.

We weren't able to get Howard Dean past the primaries, hardly any Democrats listen to us and talk about the Iraq war and, Paul Hackett and Louise Slaughter aside, I get this nagging feeling that we are just talking to ourselves.

Anyone know what percentage we are of Democrats?

"single issue" groups - a pertinent question for Kossacks

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Tuesday August 09, 2005 · 2:16 PM PDT

2005/08/09 · 14:16

There has been much ado here and on MyDD about "single-issue voters". By this I presume the definition to be advocacy groups and voters who make their political decisions based solely on one issue. (please correct me if I am mistaken)

What I want to know is, where do gays and the whole glbt community fit in?

I posted an entry a while back on a MyDD diary about how if Brian Schweitzer is opposed to glbt equal rights and marriage equality (including civil unions) then I would not vote for him no matter how much I agreed with him on everything else.

I got a reply that was merely a poignant "way to be a single-issue voter" meant, apparently, to be a perjorative.

However, I think the issue is more complicated than that... Read More

Moderates vs Liberals Where Do We All Fall?

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Friday August 05, 2005 · 9:45 PM PDT

2005/08/05 · 21:45

I read Armando's entry entitled "Fighting Dems" located here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/8/5/15134/56717

and one thing got to me. The author kept describing the net/grassroots as liberals saying how we will pull our party to the left, etc.

Now, on some issues I am unabashedly liberal. I think we need a liberal foreign policy in the middle east (for a variety of reasons that I wont mention in this diary).

I think Dems should quit the equivocating with the Civil Unions nonsense and endorse gay marriage IF they truly believe gays should be allowed to marry. I'm gay so it should be a no-brainer as to why I think that. I also am sick of hearing rumors about people like Hillary who "really dont have a problem with it personally, but think it's not politically viable." If you are for it, F-ing say it! You dont have to make that the cornerstone of your campaign!

Basically, I think Dems should stand for what they reallly believe in.

But I want to know what I would be considered. A moderate? A liberal? What exactly?

Brian Schweitzer... a bigot??

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Monday June 20, 2005 · 11:15 AM PDT

2005/06/20 · 11:15

After Kos' resounding endorsement of Montana governor, Brian Schweitzer I became curious. I tried to find what information I could on him. The more I read the more impressed I became. He truly was "the real deal". He's a populist, ACTUAL rancher and scientist who spent years in the middle-east and speaks Arabic. I thought, "this guy would make the perfect president!"

I couldn't have been more disheartened...
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Thomas Friedman is a douche-bag

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Wednesday June 15, 2005 · 9:27 AM PDT

2005/06/15 · 09:27

For years I've read Tom Friedman's op-ed pieces in the New York Times and thought, "This guy is such a douche-bag! I oughta pick one of his op-eds apart in a blog diary." Unfortunately, as is the case with most people I never had enough time, always had something more pressing to do, always found an excuse not to, etc. etc.

Not this time! His last op-ed was just too wrought with douche-baggery to let it go. A man who's underlying assumption for all his arguments about the middle-east is that the Palestinians would gladly leave Israel if they were just uplifted economically and given more "freedom" (by his definition of the word) should NOT be writing on Mideast foreign policy.

His op-ed piece is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/opinion/15friedman.html?th&emc=th