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Progressives Have The Mojo Now
The Take Back America Conference this year drew 3,000 leaders and activists from 40 states, 150 speakers, a bloggers’ boulevard and radio row larger than ever, and an energy that couldn’t be contained. This year was not only a larger gathering than any previous year;...
Poll: Progressives Favor Obama
Politico.com just announced the results of the presidential straw poll of Take Back America attendees. The percentages are: Obama 29 Edwards 26 Clinton 17 Richardson 9 Gore (write-in) 8 Kucinich 5 Biden 1 Dodd 1 Gravel 1 Isaiah J. Poole writes: Illinois Sen. Barack...
What The Boos Were About
Sen. Hillary Clinton being booed during her remarks is likely to be the big story coming out of Day 3 of Take Back America. What the boos were actually about is likely to be misreported. Byron York at the National Review writes that the boos began after Clinton said,...
An Unabashed 'Hope-Monger'
The pundits have been saying that Sen. Barack Obama lost his stride at the most recent presidential debates, but there was no evidence of that Tuesday when he made a passionate, forceful speech at the Take Back America conference. What a standing-room-only-crowd heard...
Edwards: 'No More Triangulating'
For an audience that was eager to hear a presidential candidate say that they would not compromise progressive principles for political expediency, former Sen. John Edwards knew what to say. When it comes to ending the war in Iraq or issues such as universal health...
Richardson Names Names
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...
Borosage Plays Hardball On Iraq
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...
Freshman Class Message: Don't Back Down
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...
From Conservative Failure to Progressive Action
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,...
Don't Fall Out Over Iraq
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...
