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Politics has gotten nasty in the USA. And it has driven many regular people from participation. Let's remember our National Motto: E Pluribus Unum!
 donphilipe  07 Mar 2008 09:07
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Well if the Democrates are willing to be bullied then that's on them. The Democratic and Republic parties are made equally no one has more power than the other. The only over power they exult is on the US citizens and some of us don't bother to care and give our votes to who is more popular. If being patriotic is popular than that's where the nation leads it's self. When the day comes that logic is popular then we can actually start debating about which puppet can rally up the most support for their cause. Plus that it's better to be mad with power than no power. With no power no body listens to you.
 
 Ishoto  24 Apr 2008 03:54
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C'mon Y'all, this is the easiest debate to get behind! Feel the Love! And for those of us who aren't Hippies.Remember the motto given us by our Founding Fathers!
 
 donphilipe  07 Mar 2008 09:09
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Bipartisanship is a mind game that republicans play on Democrats. Unfortunately, many Democrats are suckers and fall for it every time. Do the republicans ever worry about bipartisanship? Of course not. They pursue their own crazy agenda at every opportunity. And if democrats object to it, they'll be denounced as unpatriotic, unamerican and "angry". Yet every time democrats get into a position of power they aim to be "bipartisan".

Democrats need to recover confidence in the essential rightness of their own positions. They need to be willing to assert them vigorously, in the teeth of entrenched opposition. The right-wingers control the media landscape. They can generate any kind of clamour they want. Democrats have to be prepared to face it down rather than submit to it. Otherwise political debate in America becomes a contest between the right and the centre rather than the right and the left. And if it becomes a contest between the right and the centre, the republicans have won.
 
 Hidell  07 Mar 2008 09:21
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 This debate was discussing a concept that transcends partisanship or even Bipartisanship. It appeals to the concept in our founding documents: the common welfare. Partisanship has narrowed the American political debate into a bichromatic rainbow: if you're pro-choice you're automatically for gun control. Real people don't actually generate opinions this way. Democrats do not own a patent on "essentially right ideas" after all it was the Republicans who overturned slavery over Democratic opposition. Partys are abstract labels which mean far less than they appear to. Good governance doesn't come from being a Democrat or from being a Republican. It comes from having good ideas.
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 07 Mar 2008 09:46
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