This is no surprise to anyone with a brain. Far lefties have no principles that they will not discard at a moments notice. Everything is relative to them. No greater evidence of this was when the National Organization of WOMEN routinely trashed the victims of Bill Clinton's wanted and unwanted advances using his power position over them. I really don't know how these people live with themselves.
On Aug 18, 10:49 am, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > If they were principled where is their voice now??? > > http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/For-the-Left_-war-without-... > > >>> Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party's > >>> most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic > >>> presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops > >>> the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. > >>> Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military ("General Betray Us"). Cindy > >>> Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, became a heroine > >>> when she led protests at Bush's Texas ranch. > > That was then. Now, even though the United States still has roughly > 130,000 troops in Iraq, and is quickly escalating the war in > Afghanistan -- 68,000 troops there by the end of this year, and > possibly more in 2010 -- anti-war voices on the Left have fallen > silent. > > No group was more angrily opposed to the war in Iraq than the netroots > activists clustered around the left-wing Web site DailyKos. It's an > influential site, one of the biggest on the Web, and in the Bush years > many of its devotees took an active role in raising money and > campaigning for anti-war candidates. > > In 2006, DailyKos held its first annual convention, called YearlyKos, > in Las Vegas. Amid the slightly discordant surroundings of the Riviera > Hotel casino, the webby activists spent hours discussing and planning > strategies not only to defeat Republicans but also to pressure > Democrats to oppose the war more forcefully. The gathering attracted > lots of mainstream press attention; Internet activism was the hot new > thing. > > Fast forward to last weekend, when YearlyKos, renamed Netroots Nation, > held its convention in Pittsburgh. The meeting didn't draw much > coverage, but the views of those who attended are still, as they were > in 2006, a pretty good snapshot of the left wing of the Democratic > party. > > The news that emerged is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have > virtually fallen off the liberal radar screen. Kossacks (as fans of > DailyKos like to call themselves) who were consumed by the Iraq war > when George W. Bush was president are now, with Barack Obama in the > White House, not so consumed, either with Iraq or with Obama's > escalation of the conflict in Afghanistan. In fact, they barely seem > to care. > > As part of a straw poll done at the convention, the Democratic > pollster Stanley Greenberg presented participants with a list of > policy priorities like health care and the environment. He asked > people to list the two priorities they believed "progressive activists > should be focusing their attention and efforts on the most." The > winner, by far, was "passing comprehensive health care reform." In > second place was enacting "green energy policies that address > environmental concerns." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
