Comments on: Donna Edwards On Obama And The Netroots

By: bonkers

bonkers — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:38:19 +0000

I had a similar thought. Perhaps she could form a Presidential Exploratory Committee for 2012 to get her name out more, and then run in 2016 with this running mate:

Donna Edwards/Alan Grayson 2016!

I may even start believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster if that actually happened.

By: rootless

rootless — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:57:01 +0000

Of course I have such a right.

By: McKinless

McKinless — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:07:20 +0000

Wow! Donna Edwards for Vice-President.

By: CitizenE

CitizenE — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:07:51 +0000

Surely people at Firedog Lake do not believe whoever becomes the President of the United States will be an all things perfect and progressive candidate. That is the business of the people. People should go to that New Yorker so many were screaming about last week and read the story inside the covers. It presents Obama as very much a political player who wove his way through Chicago Democratic politics and politicians to get where he is today. They should not be surprised to find that in many ways he resembles a younger generation Bill Clinton; that is, he is a mixed bag and always has been. He will in no uncertain terms be better than John McCain, but netroots will have to keep on advocating. His stands on gun control and religion were way out in the open all during the primary campaign. The FISA vote is very troubling, and in all cases he needs to hear that there are people who value the Bill of Rights as they were written more than a single candidate or a temporal issue. But please, let’s get over the idea that a President is some sort of savior. I voted for him because it does seem to me that he takes his counsel from a wide swath of intelligent people. That alone would be a refreshing change after the last 8 years.

By: brendanscalling

brendanscalling — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:47:53 +0000

I don’t think you have any right to tell someone like Deb how to vote.
I’m not planning on voting for Obama either: I’m only voting for democrats who stand up for my rights.

With AT&T outright branding the Denver Convention as their own, one would have to be blind to just vote straight ticket.

Accountability NOW!!

By: rootless

rootless — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:26:59 +0000

Good idea, because letting the Republicans continue to control the WH will really show ‘em.

You know, when if the Democrats at the start of the great depression refused to vote for FDR, who ran on a moderate wimpy platform, had only let the Republicans win, so that people could starve and pro-Nazi foreign policy would have been carried out, the whole history of the world would have been better. Don’t you think?

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:51:26 +0000

You think that’s a Gooper-sounding comment, read this.

nite david

By: David Neiwert

David Neiwert — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:40:56 +0000

The Democrat Party? Dude, you sound like either a freeper or, worse still, Larry Johnson.

By: ACitizen

ACitizen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:16:05 +0000

Just so.

By: ACitizen

ACitizen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:15:18 +0000

Contrast my Senators: Boxer and DiFi!

This is indeed what we need 534 more of.

And we can do it. The citizenry is sick of the vile ReThugs and their pals the ‘Democrat’ Party.

I do intend to shove this statement down the throat of every Obambi supporter I can find.