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President Obama has endorsed the pro-corporate head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in her primary bid to retain her seat, a move that is in direct conflict with the desires of the base progressives of the Democratic Party. Ring of Fires Farron Cousins discusses this.
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)Employee Free Choice Act
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ish of the hammer
(444 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Not sure why anyone would think he wouldn't support his own pick for the job.
smh!
theaocp
(4,244 posts)in their thinking, yes? Unless his thinking is incapable of progressing past his mistakes? Or he doesn't think she's a mistake. Ignorant or complicit. Take your pick.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I've got to say, I disagree with this guy's analysis on pretty much every level. Obama's not going to reject his choice. And DWS isn't in the "steep climb" that this guy avers. This is one of those cases where the bias of the presenter is so apparent that it makes the reportage pretty much useless.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)It turned out they were a total fuck-up, and he fired them.
That would have been the best option.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)All others are cheap imitations.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)people who toe their rigged line. They also need to understand that they are not the majority of the voting populace, nor are they the majority of Democrats.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)theaocp
(4,244 posts)What has she accomplished to indicate she has done so?
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)are stuck with a two party political system, the idea that a status quo majority
of either party can simply ignore or dismiss a significant minority is exactly
what is about to shake the windows and rattle the walls of both parties.
Brace yourself.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)Lately(s) go back to their beer & pretzels.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)I've been a democrat for 50 years. You are definitely in for a rude awakening. Even if establishment corruption steals this nomination for your candidate, the handwriting is on that shaking wall. Time is running out for you "New Democrats" because the old ones are returning, and most of them are young. I'll celebrate with beer and pretzels. Time is not on your side. Bye, bye.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)People have been predicting the demise of the Democratic Party for millennia, and we're still here, even in spite of all the attempts by the Johnny Come Lately(s). If anyone were ever concerned about the nonsense you're talking, all one has to do is take a look at the demise of Occupy. "Movements" & "Revolutions" powered by "the youth" always end up in the same place, that's the reason the Green Party never took off.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)c588415
(285 posts)She has been a strong advocate for the state of Florida, Pres Obama, the middle-class and the poor. Schultz's critics dont like her because she wont bend the rules for Sanders.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,241 posts)Nope. Not going to be bending any rules for the guy who just joined the party a week ago to take advantage of the infrastructure built over decades for "Democrats".
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)She's a snake.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)getting the job done. Bravo.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)iandhr
(6,852 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)remember what happened in the 2010 mid-term elections, when progressives "stayed home"? Do you think that will not happen again? (It's shaping up to be déjà vu 2016.)
jwirr
(39,215 posts)of the establishment who just do not get it. They need to before Mr Trump is president.
ConsiderThis_2016
(274 posts)He's got his. This explains the 2012 demographic "Voter Recorded" that was set by the Democrats. Beauty's in the eyes of the beholder... not to be confused with DOJ's Mr. Holder.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)onecaliberal
(32,898 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)support the Corporate DNC Chair? She has done a wonderful job over the years for the oligarchs and the Repukkkian party...
FailureToCommunicate
(14,022 posts)Love Obama, disagree with him on this, even if it is 'normal'