Who is ThirdWayer and who isn't...

[mylye2222]

Those Are

Bill and Hillary Clinton
Joe Liberman
Dianne Feinstein
Terry McAuliffe
John Edwards ( maybe ...)


Those are not

Elizabeth Warren
Howard Dean
Bernie Sanders
(Ted Kennedy)
Joe Biden
Prez. Obama
John Kerry.

At least thats how I see them.

[Rex]

1. The actual group itself is the problem.

Board of Trustees

John L. Vogelstein (Chairman)
Bernard L. Schwartz (Chairman Emeritus)
David Heller (Vice-Chairman)
Georgette Bennett
William D. Budinger
David A. Coulter
Jonathan Cowan
Lewis Cullman
William M. Daley
John Dyson
Robert Dyson
Andrew Feldstein
Brian Frank
Michael B. Goldberg
Peter A. Joseph
Derek Kaufman
Derek Kirkland
Ronald A. Klain
Peter B. Lewis
Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
Susan McCue
Herbert Miller
Michael Novogratz
Andrew Parmentier
Kirk Radke
Howard Rossman
Ted Trimpa
Barbara Manfrey Vogelstein
Joseph Zimlich[16]

[mylye2222]

4. All unknown names

Who still play the game behind our backs.

[Rex]

5. Exactly, all investment bankers and Wall Street CEOs.

That want unregulated capitalism, and a federal government that is weaker than the private sector. Sound familiar?

[mylye2222]

6. Oh yes it Sounds...

[hrmjustin]

2. I still like Hillary!

And I will still vote for her.

[Recursion]

3. Edwards isn't; Dean is

Obama mostly is. Unless "third way" just means "a Democrat whoever is talking doesn't like"

(There's an actual group called "Third Way", none of whose members are in either of your lists; "third way" as a philosophy is more nebulous, but Edwards definitely isn't it, and Dean almost certainly is, at least if you go by his record as governor.)

[wyldwolf]

10. While Senator, John Edwards was a member of the Senate New Democrat Coalition

[Recursion]

16. SNDC was pretty much required membership for southern Democrats

And, for that matter, "new democrat" and "third way" are not synonymous either.

[wyldwolf]

17. No it wasn't

There no evidence of that

[Recursion]

21. Well, the only non-southerners in it were Kerry, Clinton, and Bayh

And I can't think of a southern democratic Senator that wasn't in it.

[antiquie]

7. Third Way Notable

People

CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider is a Resident Scholar and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Third Way. A few of the staff members for the organization now work in the Obama administration and several former Third Way Honorary Co-Chairs serve in President Obama's cabinet including Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

In February 2011, Third Way announced that Assistant House Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-SC), and U.S. Representatives John Dingell (D-MI), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) and Jared Polis (D-CO) would be joining as Honorary Co-Chairs.

On October 6, 2011, Jonathan Silver, the director of the Department of Energy's loan office, and a figure involved in the Solyndra loan controversy, resigned and become a distinguished visiting fellow at Third Way; Department of Energy officials stated that the decision was unrelated to the controversy.

[wyldwolf]

8. It's not a matter of 'how you see them.'

It's a matter of their statements, membership and association in affiliated entities - DLC, Senate New Dem Coalition, House New Dem Coalition.

[mylye2222]

9. I more focus

At the way some acted , by collaborating with people like the Bushes, than at their written affiliations.

[Rex]

11. You mean you go by a persons actions and not their words?

Me too.

[wyldwolf]

13. that doesn't qualify them to be 'DLC' or 'third way.' It isn't a matter of your 'focus.'

[mylye2222]

18. Id say it is.

Thats said, peace, wyldwolf.

[wyldwolf]

20. Both ludicrous and hysterical

[treestar]

12. I think we should argue over this and not worry about Republicans

[greatauntoftriplets]

19. Yes. Circular firing squads have such positive results.

This is getting ridiculous, isn't it?

[Marr]

14. Obama was on the DLC roles. He had his name removed before running for the presidency.

His staff has always been populated with Third Way types as well.

[wyldwolf]

15. Sure. He was creating a palatable persona for the left

[randome]

22. "Mr. Obama, are you now or have you ever been a member of The Third Way?"

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