Spinoff of the "why im leaving the left..." piece..

I think the reason that this one was written ( http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3748436 )

was in responce to this... oh and let me tell you all the repugs i know just soaked this up and said "see i can see the left is losing it all..." blah blah blah...
just thought i would post this
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/INGUNCQHKJ1.DTL

we've got better peopLe coming to our side.

http://alfrankenweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22563

we've been trying to get his (drew) story out, and it's been hitting many parts of the internets.

if you didn't read tiLL the end, he's been getting offers for radio and tv and such, and we'LL probLy get on the franken radio show if aLL goes weLL. :thumbsup:

ps: feeL free to see the rest of our board if you Like. :)

right here on my DU cyberhome :evilgrin:

I will send the article out to my local dem list though, with the link to Franken's forum

lol :evilgrin: :popcorn:
:p

:rofl:

hey I see the new baby is home! Good to see ya and glad you're home and all is well with the family :hug:

lol ;)
how have you been ? yeah he is doing great :) and big brother is just loving him :)
:hug:

Alert on her if you like - I've got your back.

:rofl:


No really, just give her one of these every now and then, works every time!

:spank:

but ill bust this :spank: out on her from now on ;) lol

and butter won't melt in my mouth.... O8)

Sorry for my contributions to the hijack of your thread, though, because it's a good one. I'm bowing out now, but at least this little exchange kept it kicked, right?!

:)

i'll drop you like a melted moonpie and pour my RC cola all over you to boot!!!


:evilgrin:

Lucky there's no smiley for that. I'd lend you my poke-it-with-a-stick classic, except I think I'd be the pokee in that scenerio. Ouch!!

You know I love you, silly mod! You know we always tease the ones we like the most, well, the most!

:hi:

:pals:

thanks for heLping it get around. :thumbsup:

<snip>
I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

Like many others who came of age politically in the 1960s, I became adept at not taking the measure of the left's mounting incoherence. To face it directly posed the danger that I would have to describe it accurately, first to myself and then to others. That could only give aid and comfort to Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and all the other Usual Suspects the left so regularly employs to keep from seeing its own reflection in the mirror.

Now, I find myself in a swirling metamorphosis. Think Kafka, without the bug. Think Kuhnian paradigm shift, without the buzz. Every anomaly that didn't fit my perceptual set is suddenly back, all the more glaring for so long ignored. The insistent inner voice I learned to suppress now has my rapt attention. "Something strange -- something approaching pathological -- something entirely of its own making -- has the left in its grip," the voice whispers. "How did this happen?" The Iraqi election is my tipping point. The time has come to walk in a different direction -- just as I did many years before.
<end snip>

The Iraqi election results are as much opposed by George Bush and his lackeys in charge there (namely John Negroponte) as the neo-conservative corporations who have hired PSA's (private securtity armies) to maintain the chaos and run the death squads it that country. Bush does not want "true freedom" in Iraq. He wants a puppet government that talks of freedom and democracy, while it pushes through and imposes the policies of the U.S. hegemony of that region. Left to the Iraqi people, true free elections would result in a government of their choosing which would tell the U.S. and Britain to: "... get the fuck out now!"

Keith Thompson's eyes are still wide shut!