by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2007 | Blog
Presidential hopeful Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., addressed Take Back America earlier this hour, and as far as I know, this was the first time he criticized Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards by name for not supporting his position...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2007 | Blog
Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert L. Borosage debated staunch Iraq war defender Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., on the MSNBC news talk show "Hardball with Chris Matthews." Borosage offered a realistic assessment of the reality of the war and the truth about...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2007 | Blog
The three freshman progressive senators who participated in the "kitchen table" discussion at Take Back America Monday night all said they would support a strategy of not backing down from efforts to end the war in Iraq in the face of veto threats and political...
by Bill Scher | Jun 18, 2007 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
The Take Back America session was titled "How Conservatism Has Failed," but with the strong desire for positive change, discussion quickly moved to how to turn that failure into progressive action. Our own Rick Perlstein succinctly summed up why conservatism failed,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2007 | Blog
Freshman congressman Keith Ellison took on one of the movement’s most serious problems when he told progressives not to allow their frustrations with Congress’ inability to stop the war in Iraq to divide them. “You might be mad at the Congress because they didn’t and...
