Matt Bai, in a New York Times magazine essay titled "What Are the Lieberman Foes For?" to be published August 20th explains what many of us here have believed for a couple of years.
"... establishment Democrats exhibit a surprisingly shallow understanding of the uprising that now threatens to engulf them."
I have a major problem with the title of the essay but for the most part Bai "gets it" and makes a strong arguement that our movement may be as big as the one started by conservative Republicans in the 1970's.
more after the fold:
Bai picks up on Kos' concept:
"that you first have to master the business of getting elected before you can worry about how to govern.
My only problem with the essay is Bai's contention that for our movement to truly succeed we need "a leader with larger vision to finish the job" and that we still don't have one. Bai ignores the fact that there is a man out there who has made a series of speeches laying out what we stand for, starting with one in the fall of 2002 condemning the run up to the war in Iraq. He also gave Moveon.org speeches citing the current threats to our civil liberties and the value of the filibuster. That man, Al Gore, is also the star of the fourth most popular documentary film in history, a film that also explains what we stand for.
Go and read the entire piece at http://www.nytimes.com/... . It is not Times Select so it is there for everyone to read and forward to friends.