Evidently the DNC doesn't think climate change is one of the top 15 priorites facing our country

[garybeck]

Got my "Presidential Survey" in the mail today from the DNC and I'm just flabbergasted that in section IV they list the top 15 priorities for our country and climate change is not even listed. what a disappointment. I can't say I gave them very good grades on the other issues either.

perhaps climate change would have been #16, but they just didn't have enough room on the form for that many options. :sarcasm:

[villager]

1. Well, no. Solving it would require they actually stand up to their masters.

n/t

[garybeck]

2. sigh. quite sad. n/t

[Avant Guardian]

3. The Democrats are doing absolutely nothing

Because Rush Limbaugh would yell real loud and say mean stuff

[garybeck]

5. thanks, I've been scratching my head and that does explain a lot :)

[karynnj]

4. Almost worse, they could have linked it with energy independence

Last year, it was clear that many of the President's political people, including Axelrod did not think it was something that Obama should use any political capital on. Obama also gave away the concessions - like more offshore drilling and more nuclear - that Kerry and others wanted to use as bargaining chips.

The really sad thing is that in Gore and Kerry, the Democratic party had two leaders who were extremely committed on this - none of the 2008 candidates - when we had the best chance to win - weren't.

[neverforget]

6. I just got that in the mail too except I threw it away. They'll get my vote

but my money is staying with me.

[garybeck]

9. I think it's worth the 2 minutes to speak your mind

a survey with no donation and an explanation why is (hopefully) worth the time. I hate to think that they just take the checks and don't even look at the surveys.

[Raine]

7. I'll just bet they had plenty of room to ask for a donation

though! :mad: I haven't gotten mine yet but I know they always leave plenty of room to ask for a generous donation. A donation is something they will never ever get from me again! :argh:

[garybeck]

8. they sure did, and guess how much I gave them.

I checked the "other amount" box and filled it in with a big fat zero. I wrote that I was really disappointed about the way the tax cuts were handled and when they cut aid to poor for heating their homes, I decided to stop donating. I invited them to start following their own principles and then I would consider donating again.

[Lorien]

10. Disgusting. More than half of it reads like it came from the GOP

They aren't the party that I joined 27 years ago; they're worse than our opposition was 27 years ago!

[ProSense]

11. Democrats need to play up

this EPA study.

[nilram]

12. And nothing about public funding of elections?

How surprising.





NOT!

[ThomCat]

13. "Energy Independence?"

That should mean green energy. But that ends up mean fictitious "Clean Coal Technology" and other mythological bullshit.

America's image in the World Community? Hey, stop torturing, start truly upholding the real rule of law (finally), and start obeying treating obligations again and our image will improve. How damned hard is that to understand? :grr:

"Improving education" That would be really damned nice. Let's get rid of this bullshit of No-Child-Left-Behind that has been re-branded and is still being shoved down our throats. And let's get rid of blaming the teachers, and promoting bubble tests as the answer to everything. And let's get rid of this bullshit about standardizing everything into one-size-fits-all, and privatizing schools so that wealthy people can suck tax money out of schools and somehow expect that this is going to benefit education. Yes, let's focus on improving actual education, and let's put TEACHERS in charge of finding ways of improving education. Wouldn't that be nice?

"Immigration?" Obama is already booting record numbers of people out of this country through ICE. There have been a couple of well publicized cases of them picking out mentally disabled people because they couldn't prove to someone's satisfaction that they were citizens, and they had to hire attorneys from Mexico to find a way to come home. And then there was a Citizen who spent 7 months locked up because they refused to believe he was a citizen. If Immigration becomes any more of a priority, how many more people are going to have their lives ruined?

Lowering unemployment? I'm glad that's on here. Shouldn't that have been a priority long before now? Trillions have been spent benefiting Wall Street. Where are the damned Job Programs? Shouldn't there have been massive programs nation wide by now? A year ago already? And shouldn't you be PROTECTING all the aid programs that protect poor and unemployed people while they are poor and looking for a jobs? You know, instead of cutting those programs and gutting them in your budget?

Putting this on a list of priorities looks like hypocrisy to me when the government is not only doing next to nothing to create jobs, but also coddling corporations that hoard government bailout money, and also cutting programs that poor people need to survive.

Most of this list of "priorities" is damned insulting!

[upi402]

14. #1 Not apologize!

:silly: