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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:24 PM Original message |
Are the Democrats going to step up and support the Occupy movement or not? |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. Let the first Dem who is without corruption voice support for #Occupy. |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. It's not obsolete, it's just been sold. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:32 PM Original message |
Get the money out of politics...would there be anything or anyone left? |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. Okay, then publicly fund elections. n/t |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Don't be afraid of change. The GA format of #Occupy is true democracy and a far better thing |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Only a RepubliCON teabagger |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. Are you seriously addressing me? With that? |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
43. there's a difference between voter fraud and election fraud.. |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:02 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Crap, my bad, I meant electronic voting machines and hanging chads, etc. |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:12 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. oops! |
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teddy51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
36. No, I disagree..... Cause I am not a Republicon, or a teabagger |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:36 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. Exactly, the disenfranchisement has been discussed here this week, |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:46 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. that would be election fraud, not voter fraud |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:03 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Too late to edit my post. I'm suffering the same problem as Daffy Duck: |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:11 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. np |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. They have orders |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yeah, I get that. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. All pols are agents for the .01%. nt |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. They are clearly terrified of the movement |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. Most are part of the 1% or 1% ass kissers. So.... |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hell no....they have corporate masters, too n/t |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
8. October 5, 2011: Representative Peter DeFazio calls Occupy Wall Street "The American Awakening" |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:33 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Senator Bernie Sanders has been speaking about all this shit BEFORE OWS! |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Peter DeFazio speaks the TRUTH. |
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The Wielding Truth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Many democrats have supported the cause and those there. They |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Why should they? |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. My guess is not |
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RoccoR5955 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. I was at a fundraiser for my Congressman, Maurice Hinchey, |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. +1, and thanks. n/t |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. Should they get involved, and to what end? Seems the OWS |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I get your point, and I partly agree. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
21. You don't think certain Dems would be laughed out of the building if they profess to support OWS? |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Why is that bad? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:07 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Oh I thought you were talking about Democratic reps but you are talking about |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:37 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. Yes! |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. Democrats who REALLY want to support the Occupy movement can get their ass in gear and work... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
24. Centrist dems have fucked the party - we will se if |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
25. I hope not. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. Steve, we have to do this independently |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Jack, I'm on your side. |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. I'll be 60 next Thursday |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:28 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Hell yeah. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. No and it's probably better if they don't. OWS hates them too. |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
29. OWS won't allow itself to be co-opted..The game is changing and no one wants to |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
53. I hope you're right. n/t |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
33. All they have to do to really support the movement is to do their jobs |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
34. Hell no the spineless SOBs won't even step up and |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Your post makes a great deal of sense. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:43 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. About the only Democrats that I see backing Obama |
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Generic Other (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
42. I don't care what anyone else does |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:28 PM Response to Reply #42 |
54. +1 |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
47. Uh, that would be a no. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
50. Kinda like asking the 7th Cavalry to support the Sioux at the Little Big Horn. |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
51. I want this to be a people's movement and I would prefer politicians keep their distance |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
52. I don't want them to... |
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