Reply #123: What I was saying was that Joe Kennedy, Jr. offered to run... as I've heard it --

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I know Ted's son Edward was saying he would move into politics -- but later on --

And -- just my personal opinion -- but perhaps he wasn't confident that democratic

pressure on Congress was stronger than corporate pressure?


It was not being bereft of liberal candidates. All 4 Democratic primary candidates ran on the exact same platform. And it was a liberal one. Strong public option. Gay marriage. Etc.

You're saying that Coakley was a "liberal" . . . ?

We've known for at least a year that more than 72% of the public wants a government health

care system like MEDICARE FOR ALL -- could the White House and Obama not know that the numbers

in MA were 82% or more for MEDICARE FOR ALL?

Were they shocked to learn that today?

Not only has the GOP/corporatist agenda been keeping Democrats away from the voting booths --

the LACK of Democratic populist response has also been keeping them away.

The lies -- the failure to enact a national health care plan long ago --

the abandonment of consumer protections while bailing out corrupt banks --

people aren't dumb!


AND, evidently the disgust with what's been going on in the Obama administration kept Dems

home yesterday rather than out voting --

Let's also not forget those nasty little voting computers!



Actually -- I came in here to try to get a line up for some threads -- suggestions for

threads to move us along to see ourselves, to envision a future -- to find out what we

all really think of the Democratic Party and our possibilities of recapturing it --

that kind of thing.

Maybe tomorrow --

Think I'm off to bed!

:)