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Home Front: Politix
Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries
2011-09-20
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please...
President Obama's smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year.
There isn't a bowl of popcorn big enough...
Oh, boy! It's Ralph Nader!
The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a "progressive" position or where he has "drifted toward the corporatist right."
If one were a glutton for punishment humor, one would read the current 505 comments to this article at the Times.
Shhh. Calm yourself, dear Reader. It's the Washington Times, not the same audience at all, unless the blogs are sending them over.
"Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party's presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored," Mr. Nader said in a news release. "The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters."

In search of candidates, Mr. Nader and the others sent out a letter, endorsed by 45 "distinguished leaders,"to elected officials, civic leaders, academics and members of the progressive community who specialize among other things in labor, poverty, military and foreign policy. The list, they said, also includes progressive Democrats who have held national and state office and have fought for progressive reforms.
OMG, it's a consensus!!1!!1. The science must be settled!!!!!
"We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people," said Cornel West, author and professor at Princeton University who has been highly critical of Mr. Obama's tenure since helping him get elected in 2008. "His administration has tilted too much toward Wall Street, we need policies that empower Main Street."

Mr. Nader and Mr. West are joined by Christ Townsend, of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, and Brent Blackwelder, president emeritus of Friends of the Earth.
Posted by:Steve White

#21  ...members of the progressive community who specialize among other things in labor, poverty, military and foreign policy.

You mean...communists?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-09-20 15:37  

#20  Obviously, Barbara is just another fat-cat toady of Big Popcorn. :)
Posted by: RandomJD   2011-09-20 14:25  

#19  AP - I've just gotten permission to expand my rail siding to hold three times as many railcars as before. The work should be finished before Christmas - so I'll be able to keep up with the demand in 2012. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara   2011-09-20 14:13  

#18  Now all we need is for OBumble to decide not to run. The Dummycheat party would fracture into a thousand pieces, each one absolutely CERTAIN only THEY were the "pure". Why not nominate Rahm Emanuel? He's an expert on "crisis management" - he never lets a good one go to waste. How about Larry Summers? He's an economic "genius", isn't he? This is just LOL funny. Hey, even get ole Harry "what legislation?" Reid to run - he can lose as well as anybody else can!
Posted by: Old Patriot   2011-09-20 13:25  

#17  Tu, they're Idealogical racists. In other words members of the CBC.
Posted by: Charles   2011-09-20 13:18  

#16  Poverty experts. YCMTSU. Anybody have the heart to tell 'em that it ain't gonna happen?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-09-20 12:06  

#15  Doesn't this mean they're racists?
Posted by: tu3031   2011-09-20 11:41  

#14  Not all good. It might end up as a way for the MSM to portray Obama as a moderate and to get a fair piece of the US to believe it.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-09-20 11:30  

#13  I need to buy stock in popcorn.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-09-20 10:52  

#12  Well any Marxist is an expert in (creating) poverty.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-09-20 10:24  

#11  Holy shit, it's Dingbat vs Moonbat.

I wanna run, everybody else is.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-09-20 09:05  

#10  Ralph Nader? I heard he was dead.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-09-20 08:55  

#9  They want to recruit six candidates who bring expertise ranging from poverty to the military.

Does this include Ralph Nader? He is a perennial candidate. It's expected. Cynthia McKinney? Cindy Sheehan? Yeah and yeah. I want to see that debate. That would be a circus. Lots of popcorn.

Hillary, the most popular and smartest woman in the world, could challenge Obama and maybe win in Nov. Jeez, I hope not. I remember 8 years of the Clintons. That was like treading in mud for 8 years.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-09-20 08:29  

#8  Hm. Which would be preferable? A theoretical "principled" moonbat challenger, or someone serious who could defeat (a) B.O. and then (b) the Republican?
Posted by: RandomJD   2011-09-20 07:52  

#7  Now all they need is a candidate. Cynthia McKinney?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2011-09-20 07:35  

#6  Liberals vow to challenge Obama in Democratic primaries

racists!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-09-20 06:41  

#5  "Afterall, it's not class warfare, it's math"
Posted by: newc   2011-09-20 04:40  

#4  It will be a bloodletting, just like the Roman Coleseum! Barbara---better get the popcorn factory going 2 shifts. Ima sending 4 cars of popcorn to your siding at a time of your choosing.

This will be like the good olde days of the Arafish.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2011-09-20 02:47  

#3  @ #2 EXCELLENT
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2011-09-20 01:26  

#2  "His administration has tilted too much toward Wall Street, we need policies that empower Main Easy Street."

I sincerely hope Cornel won't mind my minor editing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-09-20 00:32  

#1  Majoritarian? Must be some sort of shorthand for "raving moonbat loony lefty fringe."

Go Ralph! (A slogan that's its own rejoinder!)
Posted by: PBMcL   2011-09-20 00:15  

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