I have said it a number of times....the Democratic party has been hijacked (not unlike the recent hijacking of the Republican party) and this is from news today...gives you an idea of, AND THIS IS MY OPINION, how this current administration is tearing the party apart...

The article I am linking to is one from a conversation with Jim Webb the Democratic senator from Virginia and he says at one point...

""I've been warning them," Webb says, sighing, resting his chin on his hand. "I've been having discussions with our leadership ever since I've been up here. I decided to run as a Democrat because I happen to strongly believe in Jacksonian democracy. There needs to be one party that very clearly represents the interests of working people ... I'm very concerned about the transactional nature of the Democratic Party. Its evolved too strongly into interest groups rather than representing working people, including small business people."

He mentions in the article that in a conversation with the President, he warned him that the health care bill was going to be a disaster !

The moderates in this party are becoming outcasts. The party has been taken over by a radical agenda..have you ever noticed that the President's advisers are all tried and true folks...there is not outside influence at all and that, my friends is very rare for a President !

Another quote from the article...

"A lot of people in this country, when they look up here, they want to see leadership. They want to see credibility. And they are not always the same thing," Webb says. "The healthcare issue really took away a lot of the credibility of the new leadership--Obama particularly--the Reid-Pelosi-Obama trio."

He speaks openly about the race issue and this is one tidbit from that area ....

"Earlier this year, writing in The Wall Street Journal, Webb argued that diversity programs are wrongly discriminating against working class whites. He supported abolishing the programs or narrowly limiting them to their historic original intent, to mend the "badges of slavery" forced on blacks.

"In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations," Webb wrote."


An interesting article and one worth the time to read ! As an ex Democrat myself, it is great to see someone finally standing up within that party and telling it like it is !

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...er_107875.html

Originally Posted by Bucco

I have said it a number of times....the Democratic party has been hijacked (not unlike the recent hijacking of the Republican party) and this is from news today...gives you an idea of, AND THIS IS MY OPINION, how this current administration is tearing the party apart...

The article I am linking to is one from a conversation with Jim Webb the Democratic senator from Virginia and he says at one point...

""I've been warning them," Webb says, sighing, resting his chin on his hand. "I've been having discussions with our leadership ever since I've been up here. I decided to run as a Democrat because I happen to strongly believe in Jacksonian democracy. There needs to be one party that very clearly represents the interests of working people ... I'm very concerned about the transactional nature of the Democratic Party. Its evolved too strongly into interest groups rather than representing working people, including small business people."

He mentions in the article that in a conversation with the President, he warned him that the health care bill was going to be a disaster !

The moderates in this party are becoming outcasts. The party has been taken over by a radical agenda..have you ever noticed that the President's advisers are all tried and true folks...there is not outside influence at all and that, my friends is very rare for a President !

Another quote from the article...

"A lot of people in this country, when they look up here, they want to see leadership. They want to see credibility. And they are not always the same thing," Webb says. "The healthcare issue really took away a lot of the credibility of the new leadership--Obama particularly--the Reid-Pelosi-Obama trio."

He speaks openly about the race issue and this is one tidbit from that area ....

"Earlier this year, writing in The Wall Street Journal, Webb argued that diversity programs are wrongly discriminating against working class whites. He supported abolishing the programs or narrowly limiting them to their historic original intent, to mend the "badges of slavery" forced on blacks.

"In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations," Webb wrote."


An interesting article and one worth the time to read ! As an ex Democrat myself, it is great to see someone finally standing up within that party and telling it like it is !

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...er_107875.html

I for one no longer support diversity programs.....

Bucco: Can't argue with that at all.