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Bai suggested in that article that HRC would be an antidote to the so-called excesses of the 1960s. I'd rather have a president who reined in the excesses of the first years of the 21st century--especially at the Executive Branch level.
John McCain's Straight Talk Express runs on fossil fuels.
by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 02:33:22 PM PDT
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I'll have to re-read to whole article, but if you're talking about what's on the first web-page, it says that "Robert F. Kennedy, who used the same Senate seat as his springboard 40 years earlier" stood for Liberal issuess, but Hillary stands for nothing and:
wants nothing to do with ideological crusades, and she has thus far resisted the pull of rising antiestablishment forces - bloggers, donors and activists - who are fast becoming today's equivalent of the 60's left. Instead, Hillary (as she is universally known) has navigated with extreme caution through the party's fast-changing landscape, and if she has evolved as a public figure, it is in a way that has distanced her from the party's more liberal base. http://www.nytimes.com/...
wants nothing to do with ideological crusades, and she has thus far resisted the pull of rising antiestablishment forces - bloggers, donors and activists - who are fast becoming today's equivalent of the 60's left. Instead, Hillary (as she is universally known) has navigated with extreme caution through the party's fast-changing landscape, and if she has evolved as a public figure, it is in a way that has distanced her from the party's more liberal base.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Bai says "bloggers, donors and activists are fast becoming today's equivalent of the 60's Liberal left" and that Hillary wants nothing to do with them.
by William Domingo on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:04:14 PM PDT
a lot of those "excesses of the 60s" are urban legends made up by right wingers and the press. I was really young at the time, but I think there is some revisionist history going on.
I think their solution is a return to the 50s which had its own set of problems.
It's the constitution, stupid
by CTMET on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:19:04 PM PDT
A lot of those "excesses of the 60s", and the 30ties up until the 60ties that Right-Wings wail about are working people getting too many rights, economic and legal. In 1968 Richard Nixon ran on a platform of turning back the "excesses" that supposedly had occurred in the prior decades up to that point. The civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, the labor movement, etc. Hw wanted to turn all that back.
by William Domingo on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:53:50 PM PDT
As someone who is a member of Generation Y, I don't see why this election should be about the politics of our parents. This is 2008, not 1968, or even 1988. People want our troops home, better healthcare and a crackdown on corporate abuse. The DLCers think that voters are still voting like they did 20-40 years ago, when this is complete bullshit.
by Progressive Moderate on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:41:52 PM PDT
wide narrow
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