The marginalization of "The Left" through the years. Not hearing us now at all.

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125. Dean should have been given a great deal more recognition by the Obama

administration than he was. He should have been offered a cabinet post. Dean, whether he is universally liked or not, responded to the disillusionment of a segment of the Democratic Party, invited its members to get active, showed them how, and the result is a much more successful and unified party.

President Obama has given far too much credit to his buddies from Chicago and Wall Street and shut out organizers and Democrats from the rest of the country.

Unless that situation is changed before 2016, we face some tough times.

The Republicans are undergoing self-analysis. They don't seem to be getting very far with it, but at least they are doing it. We Democrats need to start think about our future in a country in which the 99% have been pretty much decimated economically by the 1% that takes it all. That reality is going to become harder and harder to gloss over and touch up.

And Democrats are going to be blamed for it if we don't start doing more about economic disparity between the rich and the rest of us right now.

We have to bring the jobs back. Most of our problems including the problems with Social Security and Medicare can be solved if we just have more jobs. I hear almost nothing about that. It's as if the Obama administration is happy with the high unemployment rates we have today.

Those high unemployment rates are the core of the problem, and they are due to our trade policies and the dictatorship of the multi-nationals.