rebublicans

The Devil and the D.L.C.
by Saab Lofton

"We've got to repudiate, you know, the most strident and insulting anti-American voices out there sometimes on our party's left ... We can't have our party identified by Michael Moore and Hollywood as our cultural values."
--Al From, CEO, Democratic Leadership Council

It all started in September of 1946. Paul Robeson -- actor, singer and all-around Renaissance man -- tried to persuade President Harry Truman (a Democrat) to pursue anti-lynching legislation. Truman claimed the time wasn't right for such legislation because it'd offend members of Congress from the Deep South!