Progressive Patriots

Would Clinton Or Obama Do Better in a 2012 Re-election Race?

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Those young voters who chose Obama so overwhelmingly over Clinton are going to be in the ascendancy four years from now, and the older voters upon whom Hillary Clinton now depends will be smaller in number.

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Tags: democrats

Clinton And Obama Break Promise To Stop Spying Immunity for Phone Companies

January 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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Tags: democrats · freedom

That Barrage of Second Guessing of Clinton Is Democracy

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Hillary Clinton has to deal with the little people, the American people, We The Activists who care enough to vote. No multimillion dollar series of television advertisements is going to buy us off. If Hillary Clinton wants to win, she had better start paying attention to the “second-guessing” coming from the progressive grassroots. If she had listened to our “barrage of second-guessing” back in 2002, she wouldn’t have made that tragic vote in favor of starting a war in Iraq.

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Tags: activism · democrats

Under Bush, Politicization of Federal Prosecutions Soared

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

You know, Bill Clinton was hardly a die-hard progressive president, but at least he understood why progressives place an emphasis on the separation of the passage of laws in the congress, the enactment of laws by the executive, and the enforcement of laws by the judiciary. Three separate and equal branches each interact with […]

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Tags: ethics · republicans

Democratic Presidential Candidates Reject Xenophobia of English-Only

December 16th, 2007 · No Comments

In the NPR Presidential Debate of December 4 2007, Democratic presidential candidates were confronted with the sentiment of a North Carolina resident:
We mentioned that we’ve been taking questions from listeners in recent weeks about this debate, and one is on a small issue that, I think, points to a large concern. It comes from Tally […]

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Tags: democrats · values voting

Vote Progressive to Restrain Fear-Driven Vigilantism

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

On December 4 2007, Steve Inskeep of NPR News asked the Democratic presidential candidates whether they, if elected, would encourage American citizens to ferret out and turn in illegal immigrants to law enforcement authorities. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio answered the question by evoking the Americanism of Emma Lazarus:
Rely on the Constitution. You know, […]

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Tags: democrats · homeland insecurity · international relations

NYS Democrats Admit Hillary In Trouble In Iowa

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

This morning, Stuart Brody, chair of the New York State Democratic Rural Conference, sent out a message to other members of the New York State Democratic Committee representing rural counties, admitting that the race in Iowa is now “described as a dead heat… our voice can be especially helpful in Iowa, and then, five days later in New Hampshire”.

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If Homeland Security Can’t Protect Us, Why Allow It To Restrict Our Liberty?

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

A green face animated video discusses the sham promise of Homeland Security, that we can all be safe if only we sacrifice our liberty.

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Tags: freedom · homeland insecurity

Dennis Kucinich Gets National Security and Human Rights Right

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

In the Democratic Party presidential candidates’ debate of November 15 2007, Hillary Clinton explained why she “agreed completely” that national security was more important than human rights: “I mean, the first obligation of the President of the United States is to protect and defend the United States of America.”
Dennis Kucinich has issued a retort to […]

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Tags: democrats · freedom

Open Records From Clinton And All Candidates

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

There’s a scandal brewing for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign, and it has to do with a lot of the problems we’ve been having under George W. Bush. The issue is secrecy of government records. For Bush, that problem has to do with a sitting presidency. For Hillary Clinton, the problem […]

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Tags: democrats · ethics