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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
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04 Mar 2005 02:40:56 PM |
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OT: Ari Berman |
Going Nowhere
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050321&s=berman
The DLC Sputters to a Halt
by Ari Berman
In May 2003 the centrist Democratic Leadership Council published its
yearly list of "100 New Democrats to Watch." The DLC frequently puts
out these lists as a way to publicly solidify its identification with
the New Democratic movement within the Democratic Party. The 2003 list,
however, contained a number of questionable additions, including
then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. As a state senator, Obama had
continually passed progressive legislation--a record that he vowed to
add to when he began his run for the US Senate on a platform of clear
opposition to the Patriot Act, the Iraq War and NAFTA, all positions
anathema to the DLC. The puzzling addition caused The Black Commentator
magazine to wonder, a month after the DLC list came out, whether Obama
had been "corrupted" by the centrist group. Obama's reply to the
Commentator was indicative of how the DLC plays the "New Democrat"
card.
Ari Berman
http://news.google.com/news?tab=gn&q=%22Ari%20Berman%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&
http://www.google.com/search?tab=nw&q=%22Ari+Berman%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ari+Berman%22&btnG=Google+Search&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%22Ari+Berman%22&start=0&scoring=d&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&
Barack Obama
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/86241a9beab154e5
Howard Dean
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/7f1614e567c9147c
Ruy Teixeira
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c3818f6d45054959
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