[quote name='Sarang01']You're my friend, myke, but you're straight up being an asshole for calling being a Vegan a character quirk.[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying *I* think it's a character quirk, but it is brought up, obnoxiously enough, as a character quirk in a negative way.
I could give a
, personally.
Settle down.
[quote name='thrustbucket']Not even that. For the past 2 years (maybe 4), Democrats have done little but blame Republicans. They lost before because they had very little in the way of plans, and this is more of the same.
I would just like if Democrats would lay out detailed plans for all their "fixes" across the board. That's what bothers me. Their whole shtick for nearly a decade has been "We don't really have much of a plan, but we know the Republican plan sucks!"
A lot of people often side with the guy with detailed plans, even if they aren't crazy about the plans, if the other choice is simply a guy with lots of good intentions and no plan. This is what the Dems are up against.[/QUOTE]
This entire post is pretty much nonsense. What you're telling me is that Democrats lack substance and are, by default, the masters of negative political campaigning as a result? What are they saying if they have no plans? What about their plans on health care? On rolling back tax cuts (which, under Obama's PLAN, are more beneficial to every American earning under $150,000 per year, otherwise known as 95% of the country, than McCain's plan)? On encouraging the growth of "green collar" jobs? Of eliminating so-called "free trade" agreements (that Clinton put them on the map is irrelevant, since they're inherently pro-business and anti-worker, and thus conservative in nature)?
Democrats have NOTHIN' on Republicans when it comes to nonsensical polemics, ad hominems, and assaults.
It's one thing to say Democrats plans are less preferable, to you, than Republican plans; or that their kind of talk fails to resonate with Americans than the Republican myths of individualism. But "they have no plans" is beneath someone who follows politics like you, thrust. Save that kind of talk for the nitwits who don't follow politics but like to talk as if they did.
Now, to what others have said indicting Democrats in helping perpetuate that which Kucinich rails against:
you're absolutely right.
Which, while it sickens me and my very, very left sensibilities, does more, I think, to make the Democrat party endearing to a greater number of Americans. It shows that they aren't all, like FOX News wants you to believe (since they are seemingly unable to utter the word "left" politically without prefacing it with the word "far"). There are, then, ample moderates in the Democrat party. Moderates that have character nuances, are willing to vote across the aisle. A diverse group of individuals; hell, that's what the Democrat party's always been about. Working class interests, gender-rights interests, minority interests, environmental interests, religious interests. They don't always overlap very cleanly (see the purported problems Obama has in courting white working class, typically Democrat voters). At all. See also the overblown "PUMA" molehill the media is making into a mountain.
The Democrat party is more likely, thus, to represent you and your interests than you would think. They certainly don't always represent mine (thanks for the
in' FISA support, Obama! Thanks for authorizing the war in Iraq, Hillary!).
But don't you WANT a party that is diverse and serves a great number of groups? One that is more moderate than good ol' ultra-liberal myke wants?
Yes you do. Of course you do. Kucinich's "WAKE UP" call was as much for his own party as it was an indictment of the GOP.
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