Reply #1: When did he say that? Please provide exact quote and link. [View All]

[MH1]

What I saw, he referred to them as "the party of ideas" which has a SPECIFIC meaning and was a phrase commonly used not so long ago. It does not mean that "republicans are the only ones with ideas" as you apparently interpret it.

There is another problem with your interpretation. Individuals like Feingold, Kucinich, and Dean may have great ideas, but when the Democratic Party machine squashes those ideas, then the Democratic Party can hardly call itself the "party of ideas", now, can it?

Maybe the reason Feingold and Kucinich have sort of quasi-supported Obama rather than getting miffed about this, is that Obama presents the possibility that their great ideas will be listened to for a change. So that maybe the Dem Party really can be the "party of ideas."