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2008 Reasons to Vote Progressive in 2008

March 21, 2007 08:05 PM EDT (Updated: March 21, 2007 08:36 PM EDT)

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I have set myself a challenge for writing about the 2008 presidential election season, and to tell the truth, I'm not sure that I will be able to meet it.

The challenge: Compile a list of 2,008 reasons to elect a progressive President in 2008

The catch: If I don't finish the list by January 1st, 2008, I have pledged to write a check for $2,008.00 to the campaign of each Republican candidate for President. I'm a political progressive, so I really, really, really don't want to do that.

As of today, I have 152 reasons compiled. That leaves 1,856 reasons to go.

Does anyone have any ideas? Does anyone care to contribute a reason to vote progressive in 2008?

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chris w. Mar 21, 2007, 8:26pm EDT

progressive? You mean democrat whose embarassed to call themself democrat?

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J. Clifford C. Mar 21, 2007, 8:27pm EDT

Gosh, no, Chris, that's not what I mean at all.

I didn't say Democrat. I said progressive. I meant what I said.

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Don (is it 2010 yet?) H. Mar 21, 2007, 8:46pm EDT

You're gonna vote for Kucinich this time around?

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J. Clifford C. Mar 21, 2007, 8:51pm EDT

I'm not committed to a candidate yet. We have a long way to go before that. I am committed to voting progressive - not just for a Democrat because the candidate is a Democrat.

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J. Clifford C. Mar 22, 2007, 12:39pm EDT

That ridiculous comment along with the writer's comments elsewhere that liberals smell, almost amount to a separate reason to vote progressive in 2008.

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Kim J. Mar 29, 2007, 12:39am EDT

Why is it that if I call myself a liberal, the cons start calling me names and if I call myself a progressive, the cons start calling me names, but thats all the cons are good at is yelling and calling people names...oh and lying about weapons of mass destraction...or was that destruction?
Lessee reasons to vote as a progressive....(I still say liberal):
social justice
repealing the no child's behind left in public school
fair funding of education
helping the student loan issues
putting teeth & protection back into bankruptcy for individuals--just like it is for companies
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
Raising Social Security Ceiling from $90K to maybe $180K to make the system more solvent and not upping the taxes on the lower end of the employment system
GET OUT OF IRAQ
Quit treating corporations as individuals and start treating corporations as businesses and taxing them as such.
Helping giving DC citizens representation in congress
reproductive choice
stem cell research
fixing VA hospitals(another place that the repugs have failed miserably--keep talking about how neocons support the troops--right into that black moldy room, right?)
OK---that's what I can come up with off the top of my head.

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