the outcome of the election

[kandrathe]

...With them at the helm the Democratic party is not Democratic, but a Leninist party and we all know how well that ended up.
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Huh? I think I get the jist of what you are saying. For instance, is there room in the democratic party for someone more centrist like Joe Leiberman? The Clinton presidential campaign was characterized by him reaching toward the middle and distancing himself from party progressives. That progressive movement is populated with the likes of Daschle, Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Gephart, Boxer, the former Wellstone, and now ironically Mrs. Clinton.

My father was a life long Teamster, and Democrat. His values were characterized by the struggle of labor against greedy corporations, and he would have applauded the speech Zell Miller gave at the Republican convention. In many ways he was a blue dog democrat, or dixiecrat. But not from the south, only from the salt of the earth, and raised on a farm during the depression, and struggling to make a life for himself and his family.