Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

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Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

by Josuah Holland at AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/obamas-big-finale-dnc-dems-are-more-agressive-united-weve-seen-years?akid=9355.138890.O741EC

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What did is that in 2012, after years of running away from the party's ideology, the Dems seem to have embraced it to a degree we haven't seen in some time. Perhaps we are, at long last, witnessing a backlash against the "backlash right." As the party has so clearly come to occupy the center of American politics -- in large part a result of the Republicans' sharp rightward lurch -- Democrats' usual fear of being labeled “un-American” or accused of stoking “class warfare” was far less evident.

The entire convention was more coherent and united in purpose than the Republicans' party down in Tampa – it just seemed, for the first time in many years, that it was the Democrats who excell at this kind of political theater, while the GOP seemed stiff, and strained, and overwhelmingly negative.

As for Obama's address, we knew he would deliver a rousing speech because he's an excellent orator, and while it wasn't the 'speech of his lifetime' – the president started slow and offered fewer specifics than Bill Clinton had the previous night – it was solid, and at times, inspiring.

We expected Obama to make this election a contest between two competing – and very different – visions for the future rather than a referendum on the economy, and he did. “When you pick up that ballot to vote,” he said, “you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation.” He talked about big decisions to come – on taxes, jobs, deficits, energy policy and education. And then he laid out a defining question for our times: are we citizens or are we just tax-payers? Are we on our own, or are we all in this together? “This is what the election comes down to,” he said.

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[johnlucas]

1. Hope they don't just stay Aggressive but also Progressive

Aggressive Progressive Democrats will turn the tide of this country & eliminate the mythology Reagan & his cohorts put down.
The rich are not owning up to their responsibilities.
Tax them at a minimum of 50% & let's invest in this country.
Kill that job creators/trickle-down nonsense & command the message for the general public.
John Lucas

[RBInMaine]

2. EXCELLENT Convention ! They were positive but also BASHED THE SHIT out of MittTwitt. FINALLY !!