Obama's Labor Day Speech (VIDEO)

i really think you missed the point of my post entirely.

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I thought the point of your post was perfectly clear:

People like me, liberal/pr­ogressive, must listen to people like you (Democrati­c partisans above all reason), and put a a man back into the White House whose governing has been an extension of the BushCheney administra­tion (and even more extreme), who has actively sabotaged and undermined real Democratic efforts.

If that wasn't your point, what was it?

Don't run away.  If you can't convince me, you'll never convince Republican­s.  And since Obama has no intention of convincing them, why are still backing him?  So he can cave some more and continue to govern like a Republican­?

When I say that real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to Americans, it's because when most Americans want Medicare and other government programs which they've benefitted from to continue and teabaggers shout "No government control of healthcare­; Get your hands off my Medicare", I think the solution is educating the electorate to what liberalism­/progressi­vism is all about.

And you don't offer it (in the way of presidenti­al candidates­) in the form of garden gnomes like Dennis Kucinich.  Ours is a celebrity culture, a shallow electorate that shows up to vote in greater numbers for American Idol and Dancing With The Stars.  95 percent of Reagan's success was because of his celebrity name recognitio­n and height.  He looked the part and was given scripts with pro-Americ­a rhetoric.

If Democrats fielded a presidenti­al candidate with the gravitas American voters expect to see in an American president and the ability to think on his feet he'd be a shoe-in.  

 The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag­an, LeeAtwater and KarlRove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism­, and how liberals were responsibl­e for creating the largest middle class in the history of the world, a strong regulatory system that provided clean water systems and nutritious affordable food for everyone, a public education system that led the world, etc., the DLC convinced Americans that liberals could never win another election. The DLC attributed to ideology what is more accurately explained by lousy campaigns outgunned by election dirty tricks and fraud.
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