Reply #45: Facts are stubborn things, cap [View All]

[FightinNewDem]

By "their May 20 annual meeting", I presume you mean the National Conversation in Phoenix.

Guess what. I was there. Heck, I was there early, so I was able to attend the reception for Ken Salazar that Al From hosted at the hotel. But I digress.

Bob Graham was not there.

As far as I can remember, Howard Dean did not send a videotaped message.

Kerry swooped in, spoke, shook a few hands and ditty-mowed to a fundraiser in downtown Phoenix.

Lieberman was not "feted all over the place", save for a few passing references by From and perhaps Mark Penn, who worked for Lieberman's campaign.

There were very few members of Congress present at the last two Conversations because the events are trying to focus on emerging non-federal elected officials. That's why the high-profile speaking slots went to people like Janet Napolitano, Bill Richardson and Tom Vilsack.

At the 2002 event in NYC, Edwards was a speaker, as was Kerry.

And is this what you mean by "ignoring" Edwards?

"Edwards also has championed a variety of DLC/PPI ideas, such as creating a new domestic intelligence agency, ending corporate welfare, matching better teacher pay with accountability for educational results, requiring community service for high school graduation, helping new parents balance work and family, requiring responsibility from fathers who owe child support, and overhauling the nation's broken parole system. He has also pushed for an across-the-board cut in the federal civilian workforce, and has proposed a variety of targeted tax cuts to help middle-class families save, invest, and buy a first home. His brand of positive populism makes a powerful values argument against Bush's "war on work," and echoes Clinton's case in 1992 that the middle class is working harder but falling behind".