Caught in between right and left...battered by both sides...Dean and DNC

madfloridian

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Mon Sep-26-05 08:02 PM
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Caught in between right and left...battered by both sides...Dean and DNC

I have watched this board and other so-called progressive forums the last while. I have been amazed at how well we can eat our own, chew them up, and spit them out.

Then I see the other side, like the blogs which are becoming daily more like the NDN/DLC...I see them eating up our Democrats from the right.

And then there is that governor from Wyoming who is so clueless he does not know Howard Dean does not believe in gun control, and he does not even know he is trying to give money and build state parties.

It is all so unbelievable.

Here is the attack from the left:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2005/09/dc_protest.html

"If Bush won't talk to Cindy Sheehan, other politicians will. In a speech to a gathering of progressives at the University of DC on Sunday, she excoriated DNC chair Howard Dean and New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, all of whom she met last with week, for refusing to call for a pullout. "If you want, we can walk slower so you can catch up with us," she joked, addressing Schumer in absentia.

In my nearly 10 years as a journalist, I've never asked anybody that clich� question: "How are you feeling?" But with Sheehan it seemed appropriate. "This weekend was huge�it was amazing," she said. "But our work's just starting."

For the first time, the antiwar movement has a face and a real strategy. Think of it as a pre-exit exit strategy. "We're forcing the Democrats to take a stand," Sheehan said. Given that a recent congressional hearing on withdrawal options failed to draw the leadership of either party, that may take some doing."

Is there anything wrong with this? No, not really. But I get lectured for being a one-issue person about women's rights....we have to stop doing this to each other and the party.

And from the right there is that governor who thinks the DNC is too liberal.
http://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/articles/2005/09/25/news/news03.txt
"Freudenthal pushes Democrats to think independently

Democratic Gov. Dave Freudenthal pressed the state party to distance itself from national newsmakers at a meeting of Wyoming Democrats where he and a Democratic National Committee vice chairman painted contrasting views of the national organization.

Freudenthal told a group of about 75 state Democrats gathered at the Clarion Hotel on Saturday night to focus on local issues that relate to Wyoming residents and to ignore national questions about a party that frequently differs from the local level.

"This is a party that's not afraid of firearms," Freudenthal said. "It's a party where people are interested in whether the governor managed to shoot an antelope with one shot."

"I don't care about Howard Dean," he summed up.

DNC Vice Chairman Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., who came to Gillette for the meeting, acknowledged that the national organizations had slipped.

"We lost touch at the federal level," Honda said. "Our job is to correct this with you."END SNIP.

Good luck, Mike Honda, I don't think the governor hears you.

Caught in the middle of a squeeze play with many of our own bloggers turning right. Hang in there, Howard, keep building the party the best way you can. Some of us are with you. Not sure of the others.