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qwlauren35
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:10 PM Original message |
Why Would Obama "Owe" Progressives? What Promises Did He Make? |
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Lyric
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. Since when is support for basic civil and Constitutional rights a "progressive" position? |
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qwlauren35
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. But he said, quite clearly, that he doesn't support same-sex marriage. |
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Joe the Revelator
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Exactly. |
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EFerrari
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. You're misreading disgust as surprise. |
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Toasterlad
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:18 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. EXACTLY |
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dflprincess
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Wed Dec-17-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. It was the Progressives who warned that unregulated "free markets" would lead to disaster |
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mwei924
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. I think it has to do with the whole people projecting their own views onto him.. |
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HysteryDiagnosis
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. ... |
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JamesA1102
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. You nailed that right on the head |
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S_E_Fudd
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Obama was a Rorschach test for some "progressives" |
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Mojambo
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. Did he not promise to repeal the Bush tax cuts? |
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rug
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
9. Allying with scumbags is not change. |
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Sex Pistol
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. He owes the people who for voted for change, but what he owes them |
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Runcible Spoon
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I see you haven't gotten a granite cookie yet. |
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Sex Pistol
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Wed Dec-17-08 08:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Okay...please show me something that shows me that the majority of Obama voters |
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Mojorabbit
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Thu Dec-18-08 01:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. I can multitask |
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leftofthedial
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Wed Dec-17-08 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
12. I never thought of him as anything but a right-of-enter, corporatist DLC-type. |
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qwlauren35
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Wed Dec-17-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. What Rhetoric was to the left? |
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Lilith Velkor
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
16. He promised to listen to those who don't agree with him |
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Undercurrent
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Thu Dec-18-08 01:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Huh? |
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Lilith Velkor
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Steve Hildebrand |
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Thrill
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
17. If you listen to these special interest groups. He owes everyone |
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Solon
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:08 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. So Gay People are just a "special interest" group, is that it? |
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Thrill
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:13 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. No its not just Gay groups? Have you been reading the newspapers |
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Toasterlad
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Thu Dec-18-08 12:21 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I Would Be Quite Happy With Obama-Sponsored Legislation to Make Gay People Equal in This Country. |
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Sunnyshine
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Thu Dec-18-08 03:03 AM Response to Original message |
24. Obama is progressive and so are the causes of most Democratic Voters. Here is Obama saying that: |
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Sunnyshine
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Thu Dec-18-08 03:51 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Obama does "owe" America's citizens- that is the exchange for voting for him. |
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mmonk
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Thu Dec-18-08 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
26. Change. |
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