I would normally agree with your take on what Mr. Gingrich did with John King but we all know what his agenda is. Newt the populist? I don’t think so.

Yes Alan you gotta be a bit careful posting here on FDL. There are some perfectos here that will scold you like nobodys business if you don’t meet their unrealistic view of what it is to be a progressive.

Tambershall your point is well taken, but so was Jesus’ when he spoke of the rich man passing through the eye of a needle. A hypothetical to you: Had you by fate somehow amassed the wealth of an Ali or Jobs, how would you have dispersed it to meet the approval of the 99% or [...]

San Bernardino is no Oakland. Same is true of the entire Inland Empire. It’s flooded with right wingers and corporatists and they will do everything they can to make Occupy look bad. I’m in Rialto a small place next to San Bernardino and i know of a few people who are planning to begin an [...]

President Carter also said of the Tea Partiers: “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American. I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way, and I’ve seen the rest [...]

Tea Partiers are hurt by the same corporatists that the OWS protesters are. They won’t come out because they see too many faces of color out there. And they be damned if they join hand in hand with such filth. Poor misguided souls.

That wasn’t intended to be divisive. As I’ve posted before. I cannot see myself standing next to a Tea Partier, no matter what our common objective. Anyone who sees other humans as sub-human deserves to be alienated. Sorry but I disagree. I heard their greivances and they don’t come anywhere close to mine.

Actually in all seriousness the one thing that concerns me about OWS’ers is what happened to the Idealists of the 1960′s(of which I was a part) and what they turned into. The Materialistic Yuppies of today who totally lost their way and forgot all of what they preached back when. It all began to fall [...]

Very insightful post. Thank you. You know the difference between Tea Party protesters and OWS ones? I’ll take you 2 years searching a Tea protest to find 2 people WITH a degree.

Thank you for keeping ACORN from being just another failed liberal left-wing spineless bunch of lazy and shiftless minorities. Iwonder why no one ever mentions them in the media anymore. Maddow said she wouldn’t ever give up on them but where did she go? I’ll never forgive Obama and those useless Dems in Congress for [...]

I don’t consider myself a progressive. I feel that it’s a term the useless Democrats hide behind after allowing the right to disparage the word ‘liberal’ so effectively. No, I’m just what I’ve always been and what I feel we all are. European-like Socialists and I don’t think it’s anything to be ashamed of.

I agree with you on pitting the majority against itself but isn’t this just the same tired game the Obama team has always tried to sell? A coming together of red states and blue states and we will all get along. I cannot imagine standing next to a Tea Partier no matter what our common [...]

Yes and what really pisses me off is to hear those phoney media experts on tv always using those terms, ‘hedge funds’,'short selling’,'sub-prime’,and many more. They know that the average person sitting out there doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about. Why do they do it? They are bought and packaged by the [...]

The point I was attempting to make here was that I feel it’s the fault of those Corporate bastards and the so-called liberal media and not the people, especially those people who were hurt the most.

ADDENDUM: for some reason the editor here on FDL is not working properly and has lost the remainder of my diary. Not sure what’s happening but this is the second diary its done this with.sorry

When I lived in Berkeley back in the early 70′s at the end of what I call the ‘forgotten renaissance’ in american history, we had a number of grocery store cooperatives there and throughout the Bay Area named simply ‘co-op’s’. They were great for the community and helped to keep food prices down from what [...]

Yes Ingram really did, believe it or not, have her very own show there once. Coulter didn’t have a show but appeared quite regularly as a pundit/contributor. I don’t believe they go to Fox strictly for the money either. Knowing that once there you are never going to be acceptable in the so-called mainstream again. [...]