| # | Name | Comments |
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| 401 | Peter Hogness | |
| 402 | Jonas Lerman | |
| 403 | Noel A. Cazenave | |
| 404 | Harvey Dupiton | |
| 405 | Susan Figliulo | |
| 406 | Rich Klimmer | We need an independent left voice to advocate for a "new' New Deal. That means: The Employee Free Choice Act, Medicare for all, progressive taxation on income and wealth, regulation of finance, banking & insurance, and a North-South development program as basis of foriegn policy. |
| 407 | John Pietaro | |
| 408 | Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Separate from my personal choices in the election, The Shalom Center and Arbeter Ring/ Workmen's Circle (which don't endorse candidates) are co-sponsoring an action conference in NYC on Nov 23, 2009: "Jews Uniting to End the War & Heal America." Date deliberately chosen so we'd know who has been elected & have time to organize for Jan & beyond, no matter the makeup of the new Congress and Administration.
Besides, please note that Jan 19 is Martin Luther King Birthday; Jan 20, Inauguration Day. This offers us a unique opportunity to organize around the vision of MLK's Riverside speech so as to make his vision real in the rebirthing of America.
For more information on these events write me at Awaskow@aol.com |
| 409 | Mark Jensen | Is it really true that the American public, which has largely acquiesced in so many crimes committed in its name by an administration that has run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution and the core values of most of its citizens and even today seems incapable of generating "domestic resistance," deserves better than Barack Obama, as John Pilger has argued? Why? What if Obama is better than what Americans deserve? But taking a more optimistic view, what about the turnout that has greeted Obama's campaign around the country, to which Pilger does not refer? Does this not raise the possibility of new things in American politics, as well as new sources of financial support? And given Obama's family history, can he really be adequately represented as a mere spokesperson for the wealthy class to which the Kennedy family belongs? There are obvious differences. Obama was raised by a single mother, had an African father and an Indonesian stepfather, and worked as a community organizer on the streets of Chicago. Isn't this profile significantly different from Bobby Kennedy's? It's obvious that no one running a platform that Pilger would enthusiastically embrace has any hope of winning an American presidential election. There is nothing for the short term in Pilger's utopianism, which has psychological satisfactions but few political ones. In his books, Obama is frank about his brand of idealism, which is realist and centrist, and not revolutionary. Thus the relative clause Obama's slogan, "change we can believe in." Pilger is a lifelong advocate of another sort of change -- valuable in keeping an ideal alive, but often separated from practical politics in the year 2008 by an enormous gulf. There is no fully satisfactory response to Pilger's complaint, because there is much truth in what he says. But Voltaire's observation that "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" ('The best is the enemy of the good') has become proverbial, and applies in this case. |
| 410 | Bonnie Koshofer | |
| 411 | Craig Lindley | A different type of leader for a different vision of America |
| 412 | Craig Lindley | A different type of leader for a different vision of America |
| 413 | Rosemary Rivera | |
| 414 | Anonymous | |
| 415 | Mary Rodgers | |
| 416 | Robert T. (Tim) Yeager | |
| 417 | Barbara Haber | |
| 418 | Judith Pilgrim | |
| 419 | Andrea Johnston | |
| 420 | Michael A. Dover | |
| 421 | Bruce Johnson | |
| 422 | Zelda Bronstein | |
| 423 | Aisha Robertson | |
| 424 | Mindy Bass | The Democrats must regain power in Washington D. C. with Obama in the White House to put this country as well as it's people back on track ! |
| 425 | Marilyn Later Bozentka | |
| 426 | Ed Hunt | |
| 427 | Dr. Joseph Emerson | |
| 428 | Max Mastellone | |
| 429 | Tom Cleaver | Obama in the White House and 60 Democrats in the Senate is the only "math" that has any possibility of making real change in it. |
| 430 | Alex Hogan | |
| 431 | Phyllis Shulman | |
| 432 | Joseph T. Miller | |
| 433 | Lindsay Caldwell | |
| 434 | Michael Rivas | |
| 435 | Gillian Young-Miller | |
| 436 | DANIELA ELIZONDO | |
| 437 | Barbara Wold | Thanks for including me in your blogroll at
http://www.DemocracyForNewMexico.com |
| 438 | Craig Brown | |
| 439 | Cory Kraft | |
| 440 | Hope Hopkins | |
| 441 | Michael Lavery | http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/alternativefuel |
| 442 | Anonymous | fine work |
| 443 | Kristen Looney | |
| 444 | Eric Mar | |
| 445 | Martha Leslie Allen, Ph.D. | |
| 446 | Michael Rivas | |
| 447 | R C N | |
| 448 | Connie Allison | |
| 449 | patricia bory | |
| 450 | Attica Georges | It's up to us as progressives to do our part to support and press leaders for decisions that will make this a better country for all. |