AMAZING Democracy Now! show today (interviewed 4 antiwar Dem challengers)

[Terran1212]

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! interviewed 4 of the antiwar Dems challenging incumbents (including Ned Lamont and Tascini from New York) and Cindy Sheehan. She also showed clips of Noam Chomsky at the UN yesterday.

Great show, best in a while.

See it here if you don't have LINK TV or FSTV:

http://www.democracynow.org/

[mike_c]

1. thanks for the reminder-- it just started here on pub radia....

9:00 AM PST. I just tuned in.

[Terran1212]

2. no problem

enjoy!

[pberq]

3. Cindy Sheehan attacks pro-war Dems

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1337214

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AMY GOODMAN: I want to start with Cindy Sheehan. Tell us about this nationwide movement, where you have Democrats not only taking on President Bush, but taking on their own party.

CINDY SHEEHAN: Well, I think it's imperative. We have basically right now in Congress a one-party system. We have very few Democrats who are speaking to our core values as progressive liberal Democrats. And they are rubber-stamping and bobble-heading everything that this administration wants to do. And it's so urgent right now that we have an opposition party. And I believe if Democrats courageously spoke out to their core values saying, “This war is wrong; if we voted for it, we shouldn't have,” and to call for an end to the occupation of Iraq, I believe that we could have a government that is run with integrity, and the Democrats could have a landslide victory in November, if they would act different from the Republicans. And I’m supporting these candidates who are saying that this war is wrong, we need to bring our troops home, and we are not going to support the Republicans who are corrupt and who are leading our country down this path of destruction.

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4. JONATHAN TASINI: takes on Hilary for her pro war stance

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1337214

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JONATHAN TASINI: Well, I think that there's no question that because of who I’m taking on, there's an enormous amount of spotlight and attention to this race. And I think that's important for a couple of reasons. One is we have to send a message to the Democratic Party that we will not support Democratic candidates who support illegal and immoral wars. We also will not support and should not support Democratic candidates, incumbents who are for the death penalty, who believe that NAFTA is a good thing, who sat on the board of Wal-Mart for six years, whose best friend now is Rupert Murdoch who is going to hold a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. She is out of step with the Democratic primary voters in New York.

So I believe that separate from what might happen after 2006, she does not deserve re-election, simply because of her record in the first term. I believe that, you know, 2008 is 50 political lifetimes away. We're focusing on her record now. Voting for an illegal and immoral war, simply on that, she doesn't deserve re-election.

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5. MARCY WINOGRAD: time for somebody to challenge the leadership

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1337214

MARCY WINOGRAD: Amy, it was time for somebody to challenge the leadership of this party that has been all too willing to acquiesce to the Bush agenda of eternal war. I happened to see my opponent on Meet the Press on February 12, at which time she said that she kept quiet for a year and a half while being briefed on the massive illegal wiretaps being conducted by Bush and Cheney, because frankly she didn't know the law. She is a lawyer, but she didn't know the law. Besides, she said, she deplored the fact that the leak had been revealed, that the wiretaps had been revealed, that people now knew the truth. And when I heard that, what raced through my mind is, “Wow! We have a Democrat who is surrendering the Constitution. She championed the war in Iraq, took to the floor of Congress to sell this war, refused to join 133 other members of Congress who said no. And now, what will happen if George Bush decides to invade or conduct air strikes over Iran? What will she say? What will the Democratic leadership do?” And I knew that at that point somebody had to challenge her.

[Terran1212]

6. I say they're all right

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7. Clarification? "I say they're all right"

What do you mean by this?

In any case this is an outstanding show, as you noted. If the majority of Democrats were talking like this they would have every ounce of my support.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/06/1337214

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AMY GOODMAN: Marcy Winograd, do you support impeachment of the President of the United States?

MARCY WINOGRAD: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I do want to say that I am the president of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, which is a chapter of Progressive Democrats of America. There's been a lot of talk about impeachment within this organization. I am now running ads on Air America. I’m part of an impeach team with Charles Coleman and Bob McCloskey, two other challengers to incumbent Democrats, and we are calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney and asking everyone to join us in calling on members of Congress to sign onto this, as well.

[Terran1212]

9. They're progressive takover of the Dem party and

the ousting of bad incumbents is a brave effort -- and in the spirit of democracy, considering most incumbent Democrats are far less progressive than their voters.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. hear hear to that terran KICKED AND REC. n/t

[EFerrari]

8. Bonifaz -- an election hero and the next MA Sec of State.

:)

[gratuitous]

11. Wow, Democrats who stand for something

You'd think that having found some, the major media would be all over this, interviewing these folks and airing their views, instead of sitting back and dismissively repeating the mantra that the Democrats don't have any ideas or alternatives to the massive fuck-up that is GOP leadership of our once-great nation.

[pberq]

12. Yes, you would think the media would be all over this.

But then again these people are not bought and paid for by corporate America, so they will be ignored.

It is up to us to spread the word.

[democrank]

13. This show was an epiphany for me.

I mean it. An epiphany. Given the horrific situation in Iraq and a march toward fascism in our own government, the Democratic base must stand for something.

[Terran1212]

14. Showed me there are more Dems willing to stand up

for what's right than I thought.