Is it too much to hope that the estab. Dems and the protestors combine?

[Melodybe]

unlike plenty here, I want our big dems at all the protests.

My feeling on it is, if the media is going to vilify them for being with the left anyway, why not actually show up at a few protests?

With American sentiment turning against the president and the media, now would be a great time to just team up.

While I know that the DLC doesn't do protests, cause really why would they want to upset their corporate masters that way, but people like Clark, and Dean, and Conyers, and Boxer, and Kennedy, and Kerry, should just go ahead and jump in.

Everyone is figuring out that people protesting are not left wing kookballs, but everyday Americans and why wouldn't people like that want to stand with the majority of Americans?

[wli]

1. the DLC is 100% corporatist shills

There is a very real "fifth column" in the Democratic Party, and it needs to be rooted out.

What we need are people like Clark and Hackett who can criticize the "national security" bullcrap the neocons are pulling with impunity because of their military experience. And we should have plenty of Iraq war veterans and former generals of varying star ranks to call upon after Bushler's "purges" of the military.

Of course, we must be exceedingly vigilant to counter the forces of Diebold and the like. Getting on local Boards of Elections and packing them by ANY MEANS NECESSARY is a very, very strong concern. Accurate, democratic, truly reflective of popular opinion etc. elections are a necessity ignored by many who write off such concerns as "tinfoil." It is no tinfoil. Indictments for crimes of the nature decried have been issued. Conclusive circumstantial proof exists in abundance. There is no question of the need for the participation in boards of elections. There is only a question of "who will get on the boards of elections and blow the whistles when wrongdoing is done?"

[Melodybe]

2. Agreed when I meant big name dems

I do not include any DLCers.

Are Kennedy and Kerry DLC?

[Melodybe]

3. They didn't hold back in the 60's why should they stay away now?

[Melodybe]

4. I guess I answered my own question.

[htuttle]

5. Actually, they DID hold back in the sixties

Remember that little riot in Chicago in 1968 outside the Democratic convention? What do you suppose that was all about (other than the police 'preserving the disorder')?

Back then, the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic party (who are now known as 'neocons', btw) was probably about as strong as the DLC is today.

[Melodybe]

6. Hmm, I could swear that some politicans of the day were protesters