Reply #1: Ok Now, You've Raised So Many Important Points

[Me.]

It's hard to know where to start or which to focus on. This line struck me forcibly, "We demand that our leader, in the spirit of Mario Cuomo, not give a speech that brings crowds to their feet, but rather, deliver a message that brings this nation to its senses."

Will that ever happen, is often the thought which brings some progressives to despair from time to time. Trickle down has been the strategy since Reagan and it is still in effect. This just doesn't apply to economics, it is the thinking that is done behind closed doors and which as it seeps out and down to the rest of us, demands we fall in line. Imagine their surprise that everyone is not acquiescent. In fact the only ones who are seeming to do so are the beltway insiders, Congress and the fundies. One group lives in a city of eternal war and the other isn't able to stop that insanity.

"I refused to say I would ‘support the Democrat’ if unsuccessful in my party’s lists"

Do we hold our noses, again, and vote for candidates who are an anathema to the very things we believe. How difficult will it be to vote for a candidate who believes the war in Iraq should extend to 2013 and beyond as well as another in Iran?

The dems in Congress were worried sick about being viewed (at least so they say) that they would be branded 'do nothing' and be blamed for the sorry state of affairs in this country, and that the obstructionists would get off scot free. Well the numbers are in and by a margin of 2/1 the country views the republicons and * as the troublemaker, the party of warmongers. Seems the American people know how to figure some things out. So what will the next excuse be I wonder?

And where has Mario been the last couple of years? He's been sorely missed.