Showing posts with label progressive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressive. Show all posts
10.26.2008
R.I.P.
6 years ago yesterday, Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. As the self-proclaimed "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" he was one of my heroes. An unrepentant and unwavering voice of progressive politics and policies he was often a lonely voice in the wilderness. But today his legacy lives on. I wish he were here to see Obama win and the resurgence of the Democratic party and hopefully a resurgence of progressivism.
8.23.2007
Edwards - Still my guy.
Read the full speech at the end of the post. That's good, powerful, populist, progressive stuff. Here is what I took from the speech:
1) The centrist/DLC way does not work and will be abandoned.
2) Corporations currently run this country, this will end.
3) Money quote: "We cannot replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other."
4) Need public financing of campaigns
5) Create true universal health care.
6) Implement caps on greenhouse gases without nuclear power or liquefied coal but with true renewable energy sources.
7) Strengthen unions
8) Raise minimum wage
9) Cut lower and middle class taxes, "Let's restore fairness to our tax code by insisting on a simple principle -- nobody in the middle class should pay higher taxes on the money they make from hard work than the wealthiest pay on the money they make from their investments."
10) End the war in Iraq, "We should immediately withdraw 40-50,000 combat troops immediately and have the rest out in about a year."
Like I said previously, Edwards is not prefect, there are some things on which we disagree but on most things we strongly agree. Obama could still ultimately win my support but he needs to get as fired up as Edwards and take off the gloves and direct his attacks at someone other than Hillary. How about an Obama/Edwards ticket?
1) The centrist/DLC way does not work and will be abandoned.
2) Corporations currently run this country, this will end.
3) Money quote: "We cannot replace a group of corporate Republicans with a group of corporate Democrats, just swapping the Washington insiders of one party for the Washington insiders of the other."
4) Need public financing of campaigns
5) Create true universal health care.
6) Implement caps on greenhouse gases without nuclear power or liquefied coal but with true renewable energy sources.
7) Strengthen unions
8) Raise minimum wage
9) Cut lower and middle class taxes, "Let's restore fairness to our tax code by insisting on a simple principle -- nobody in the middle class should pay higher taxes on the money they make from hard work than the wealthiest pay on the money they make from their investments."
10) End the war in Iraq, "We should immediately withdraw 40-50,000 combat troops immediately and have the rest out in about a year."
Like I said previously, Edwards is not prefect, there are some things on which we disagree but on most things we strongly agree. Obama could still ultimately win my support but he needs to get as fired up as Edwards and take off the gloves and direct his attacks at someone other than Hillary. How about an Obama/Edwards ticket?
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