Monday, September 19, 2011

Obama Will Have Challengers in Democratic Primary

Popcorn time.

A group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the President in primaries next year.

The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a “progressive” position or where he has “drifted toward the corporatist right,” reports the Washington Times.

“Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” Nader said in a news release. “The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters.”

Nader and the others sent out a letter, endorsed by 45 “distinguished leaders,”to elected officials, civic leaders, academics and members of the progressive community who specialize among other things in labor, poverty, military and foreign policy. The list, they said, also includes progressive Democrats who have held national and state office and have fought for progressive reforms.

11 comments:

  1. "Majoritarian"? LOL! I think he just established a new low in Newspeak.

    I guess those are people who are happy with whoever wins? But somehow I doubt that's the case.

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  2. I don't see this as real unless somebody major steps in. If Clinton, Reid, Pelosi, Sanders, or whoever jump in, then we need popcorn, but that's not happening here.

    What's going on here is the marxists and social democrats that were on the fringe of the Obama campaign are now on the march. I mean, look at these people. Cornell West is a communist academic that has no real influence, on top of that he's a lunatic who should never be taken seriously. Nader, while a serious and honest thinker, has no real pull within the party either. (I have to add that I have serious respect for Nader, I consider him intelligent and knowledgable. That said, I lament the fact that he has no understanding of economics and tends to lean towards social democracy.)

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  3. It's funny how these people are so ignorant of history that they don't even realize that "Majoritarian" is basically what the Bolsheviks named themselves.

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  4. Is someone going to step up and actually mount a campaign or is this just going to be a forum for Obama to pretend to be for the people?

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  5. I could see this keeping people voting in the Dem primaries as a way to keep them from crossing over to support Paul because he's pristine on wars and corporate cronyism, along with having a political support system which Nader couldn't hope to approach.

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  6. Obama won't have any legitimate competition. Just fringe kooks (e.g., Nader). IMHO: He will be the Democrat nominee. He will (sadly) be re-elected. Too many tax-eaters and lemmings.

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  7. How do you specialize in poverty?

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  8. Star, its still way too early, considering there is going to be a lot of bitter ex government workers and scared current ones. Yes barry will be the democratic candidate but can he win in the swing states? too far out yet.

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  9. "popcorn time" ....funny

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  10. I fear anon@631PM is right- the corporate Democrats are as scared of Ron Paul as the corporate Republicans. If the sheeple Dems are given a chance to "defect" and vote for RP, many will- but, give them a .001% chance that someone like Nader will win, and they will latch onto it and vote for the alternate (D) instead.

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  11. I find it hard to believe there is any group large enough to matter that doesn't think Obama is socialist enough.

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