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Civilizing Savages
by Saab Lofton

To be left-wing means to side with the poor/oppressed -- whether you yourself are poor and/or oppressed or not. Case in point, Marlon Brando was a rich white man but he bailed the Black Panthers out of jail many a time back in the day.

To be right-wing means to side with the rich/powerful -- whether you yourself are rich and/or powerful or not. Case in point, the Ku Klux Klan -- most of whom are poor trailer park trash and yet they masochistically support capitalism even though a WHITE coal miner dies every six hours from BLACK lung disease.

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!

No Democratic censure for MoveOn ad

By Sean Lengell
Washington Times
September 12, 2007

General Petraeus or General Betray Us?
Democratic congressional leaders and the party's presidential candidates yesterday refused to repudiate a liberal group's ad questioning Gen. David H. Petraeus' character.

Capitol Hill Democrats rejected a call for votes in both chambers to condemn the attack newspaper, run by MoveOn.org, saying Republicans are trying to take attention off what they call the president's failed Iraq policy.

Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the California Democrat "wished [MoveOn.org] wouldn't have done that ad," but declined to comment further.

King Richard Ain't Comin' ..!

Article By Saab Lofton - Aug 10 2007 www.coanews.org

"Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence."
--Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

"Malcolm X and the Black Panthers made King and others' demands seem 'reasonable' and thus politically acceptable to center-right elites."
--Sally Kohn, project director of the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change

"Although publicly I continued to ignore the raging antiwar controversy ...

Democrats vs. Republicansby Jerry Mayer of Democracy Arsenal

So there's still time (about 12 days!) to enter the contest for coining a slogan to describe the Democratic foreign policy for '08. To spur you to greater heights of deft wordsmithing, here is what I found as the current slogans for the Democrats running for president:

Obama
Strengthening America Overseas
Or, possibly--
Strengthening American Security in the 21st Century

Biden --he didn’t seem to have a position paper on general foreign policy, but he did have a slogan for his Iraq policy of dividing the country into three regions:
Iraq: A Way Forward

Hillary