Anyone else like this pro working/middle class theme by the speakers

[JohnKleeb]

Reid talked about his miner dad, Kucinich made a very pro labor speech, and Cummings is talking about his own. I realy like this, because labor is my pet issue and why I got in to DK in the first place, it wasnt the war, but I of course love his views on the war.

[wyldwolf]

1. sure... Hallmark for the democratic party

[JohnKleeb]

2. its what made my family staunch democrats

a lot of them were immigrants in FDR's time and in the working class.

[Kitka]

3. Honestly? I'd prefer a pro working/lower class theme.

I'm lower middle class, so of course I like that they're talking to me... but the urgency, in my opinion, is to address the working poor. The Democrats aren't doing that well enough, IMO.

[JohnKleeb]

4. well Kucinich talked about labor

Reid brought up his miner father who was in the working class and Cummings brought up his folks as well. I didnt mean middle/upper middle class. Definely we should help the working poor.

[AP]

6. What is going on today though is that it's the middle class that's getting

ripped off so badly in America.

At Ford, the factory workers have unions. Yet they hire temporary employees to do white collar jobs, and they rip these people off so badly.

The most oppressed worker today is that white collar worker who went into incredible debt to educate themselves, are now in homes they can barely afford and who have few opportunities to do better because almost every dollar they make goes to pay interest on their mortgage or college loans, and goes to paying their privatized energy bills.

I'm not saying the poor and the lower middle class has a great life, but the Republicans have really sunk their fangs into the middle class and are sucking them dry -- they went where the money is (who has 401ks? not the lower middle class, who had money invested in S&Ls, which Neil Bush stole? Not the poor.)

The Democrats know what's going on in America, and this convention reflects that fact.

[emulatorloo]

5. Oh yes, I am really liking it.

Mainstream Message of the Democratic Party. . .so good to hear. so good to feel pride in it.

[Robbien]

7. This was the Democratic Party I joined

but haven't seen around these parts for the last dozen years or so. So yes, I love this part but am sad because I know it is just for the convention.

[Sparrow]

8. what else would they say?

the convention exists to tell people what they want to hear.