Who is Coakley?

[omega minimo]

:yoiks:

[graywarrior]

1. Who is Brown?

That's the real question.

[omega minimo]

2. Who is John Gault?

[BeatleBoot]

A figment of Ayn Rand's imagination.

Objectivism sounds great - on paper.

Never panned out in reality.

Go ask Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand's best friend.

[11 Bravo]

15. Psssst. It's John Galt.

[dysfunctional press]

39. why is hitler?

[gateley]

3. Tbe next Senator from the Great State of Massachusetts. Make it so. nt

[omega minimo]

4. OIC

[gateley]

16. I don't know what that means - enlighten me? nt

[omega minimo]

20. Oh

I see

[gateley]

28. Thanks. I sure feel dumb. nt

[omega minimo]

29. OK

:hi:

[gateley]

52. I DO know what that means!

:hi:

[graywarrior]

We're working on it!

[BeatleBoot]

5. A Democrat.

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

:dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem: :dem:

[omega minimo]

6. real one?

:wow:

[graywarrior]

7. Important one.

[lukasahero]

8. Yes.

A real one.

[BeatleBoot]

11. More than you.

For sure.

[omega minimo]

13. wtf

is wrong with you? :evilfrown:

[BeatleBoot]

18. Back atcha!

[omega minimo]

24. It's your problem

not mine. Am I supposed to know why you're being an ass?

[BeatleBoot]

37. Okee-Dokeee

I'll call out anyone not supporting a Democratic Candidate.

But, that's just me.

I am a Democrat.


:dem:


How about you?

[omega minimo]

41. Assume, much?

:puke:

[BeatleBoot]

46. Jumping to Conclusions...

is the only exercise I get.



:smoke:

[RBInMaine]

12. Just because a person isn't an ultra-leftwinger that doesn't make them an "unreal" Democrat. If Pro-

gressives are so correct, why can' they function as a party of their own? Why can't they get Nader or Kucinich elected President? No excuses! Tell me why. ..... Because the majority of this large diverse nation is no where near far-left "progressive."

[omega minimo]

19. Really?

Pushed your spew button, eh? What, pray tell is an "ultra left winger"? :popcorn:

[RBInMaine]

32. "Progressives" who shit on virtually anything different than what they want. "Progressives" who

can't step outside their own narrow ideology to see that this is a very big centrist nation on balance where national elections are determined by moderate independents. (Check any data set you would like.) "Progressives" who are willing to "stay home" and bash Obama even though Dems are many times friendlier to their causes than RePUKES. "Progressives" who are vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvery long on complaining and all too often very short on ORGANIZING. "Progressives" who think Kucinich and Nader can actually be elected POTUS.....Need I say more?

[omega minimo]

34. How do you fit

that many overblown cliches in your head at once? :nuke:

[RBInMaine]

38. How do you find time to piss and moan so much?

[omega minimo]

44. Was that statement

as stupid before you edited as it is afterward? "Piss and moan"? Was that load of cliches supposed to have something to do with what you think I endorse? :wow: And you're pissed off at one of your imaginary Ultra Left Wingers?

Does anyone attack the Magnificent Middle for being Reagan Democrat/Republican Lite zombies who were asleep at the switch while their nation was being dismantled around them?

How do you like your Corporate Government? Still arguing about Left and Middle? :spray:

[H2O Man]

45. No.

But you probably will.

I'm one of those terrible left-wingers that have become notoriously unpopular with a certain mind-set on DU. I am a progressive democrat, well to the left of liberal democrats. Thus, while I have some things in common with moderate democrats, and a few with conservative democrats -- who tend to view themselves as "centrists."

Being at the center of an error in thinking, or being at the center of a cruel and immoral system, may hold a certain attraction for some. I tend to view this as a symptom of herd mentality. I do not feel any compulsion to bump shoulders with a crowd. If I am convinced that my position is correct, and that 99 others are wrong, I believe that I have both a moral and ethical obligation to advocate for my position -- by any means necessary, as Malcolm used to say.

King noted that social progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes only through the hard work and dedication of those few, usually starting from a position outside that centrist mainstream, with the courage of their convictions, and a willingness to fight the Good Fight. There are a number of DUers who subscribe to that belief, and who are thus called "ultra left wingers," etc, by some others who are promoting another agenda on this forum. I think that they are the cream of the crop here.

[omega minimo]

49. Well put.

Thank you.

Since I have been accused by that one of "pissing and moaning," I will share: yes, I'm tired of hearing it too, because no one listens, the "centrists" or whatever they call themselves go along with the herd, we all get screwed and they still don't have the sense to realize that they were WARNED ahead of time.

"If I am convinced that my position is correct, and that 99 others are wrong, I believe that I have both a moral and ethical obligation to advocate for my position -- by any means necessary, as Malcolm used to say."

My position is validated by being -- unfortunately, becoming -- correct as long term events have followed their foreseeable outcomes. The ''middle" want to continue to insult and blame anyone who tries to pull their head out of the sand.

Un/fortunately, I now know that it won't change, history will repeat. The comfy, self congratulatory middle will always allow the hard won community progress of the "extremists" to be undone ... and blame them for that too.

And now we're supposed to get excited about some new effort to get organized and do something about the mess the lemmings have left us? :eyes:

As for this imaginary shifting line marking left/mid/center/whatever: these folks can't figure out that three decades of Reagan Republicans and Dem Lites is what has destroyed the nation? :crazy:

[lib2DaBone]

50. Because MONEY controls all campaigns and all candidates..

Kucinich will not take money from Big Insurance or Big banks.. thus.. he is not a viable candidate.

[rox63]

9. Martha Coakley...

The Dem nominee in the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by the unfortunate death of Senator Ted Kennedy.

[bemildred]

10. I am Spartacus! nt

[Warpy]

14. I know who Coakley is

I just want to know who decided she was the best one to run for Kennedy's seat.

[lukasahero]

17. The Massachusetts voters.

:shrug:

[rox63]

21. There were 4 Dem candidates, and she won the primary

She was the only one who had statewide name recognition, having been elected Atty General twice before.

[Mass]

26. delete.

[Mass]

23. MA voters choosing her among 4 candidates.\nt

[provis99]

55. the DLC and Rahm Emmanuel decided.

If the Democrats lose the seat, I blame the centrists. It is completely and utterly their fault, for their contempt of the liberal voter base in Massachusetts, for their arrogance in thinking liberals should be shitted on, told to be DLC bitches, and just take it. Screw the DLC, screw the Blue Dogs, and Screw Rahm Emmanuel. I'd rather deal with Republicans who try to stab you from the front, than centrist Democrats who try to stab us in the back.:mad:

[rox63]

56. No, the Mass voters decided

Although I prefered Mike Capuano, he didn't have much name recognition outside the area near his congressional district. Coakley had already won statewide election twice as attorney general. The other two candidates were virtual unknowns with no political experience or recognition.

[Blue-Jay]

22. You don't have Google?

You should look stuff up once in a while.

[Sebastian Doyle]

25. The current DLC candidate for Senator from Massachusetts

Not worthy of the seat held by a Kennedy for over 50 years, but slightly less not worthy than the naked Repuke running against her.

Only two possible outcomes: sad or extremely sad. Guess we're supposed to cheer for sad? :evilfrown:

[omega minimo]

27. "slightly less not worthy"

:spray:

[BeatleBoot]

31. Sounds like Florida 2000 to me.

"Gore, Bush, they're just the same, man."


"Inseparable, those two."


That thinking is really sad (with history of the last decade to prove it).

[Sebastian Doyle]

42. Probably more like Ohio 2004

http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/st-lawrence-news/54-worldnational-news/10625-easily-hacked-voting-systems-to-be-used-in-ma-special-election-for-the-us-senate.html

This one will be stolen electronically :evilfrown:

[RBInMaine]

35. DLC DLC DLC....can you please stop pissing and moaning this stale stinky broken record.

[Sebastian Doyle]

40. Fuck the DLC, fuck their platform, and fuck them calling themselves "Democrats"

Because they are anything BUT, and their track record of corporatism enabling and warmongering proves it.

[BeatleBoot]

43. You get 'em, buddy!

Gore = Bush, right?


Talk about being sick: :puke:

[omega minimo]

54. "their track record of corporatism enabling and warmongering proves it."

seems inarguable at this point.

[H2O Man]

30. Who am I?

Why am I here?

[omega minimo]

33. Where are we going?

:hi:

[H2O Man]

36. Well, I suspect

that I may be one of them there ultra left wingers. But that still doesn't answer the question: is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?

[omega minimo]

51. Scuse me

while I kiss the sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tstjeLGRow

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. Who are those guys?

:hide:

[stevedeshazer]

48. Who is Spartacus?

I am Spartacus!

[omega minimo]

53. Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!