I WILL PICK UP THAT LABEL AND I WILL WEAR IT AS A BADGE OF HONOR --

LIBERAL! Get a transcript of that righteous rant by Jimmy Smits and emblazon it on the front of the DNC headquarters in D.C.!


(ON EDIT: Watch this on liveoaktx's video here --
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5284391)

:)

Source, links, experps, something...

Santos was fighting back about the denigration of the word "liberal."

WW hasn't aired on the left coast yet tonight. I'll have to tune in!
:popcorn:

Democrat of Texas, in the Presidential debate.

I always felt that progressives are actually conservatives that want to be cool.

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer's dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."



John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I didn't get to see it; I've not been watching West Wing regularly anyway, but I was interested in this episode.
I didn't know it was going to be that good!

Wow! Awesome!