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BlindTiresias

(1,563 posts) Wed Sep 10, 2014, 11:26 PM Sep 2014

Regarding prominent leftists [View all]

Does anyone have a list of leftists that the doctrinaire dems haven't thrown under the bus for slights against Obama (real or perceived)? It is getting hard to keep track of.

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Regarding prominent leftists [View all] BlindTiresias Sep 2014 OP

Quite frankly, I have no respect for "prominant leftists" who do not win public office. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #1

The perfect response to that post. BlueCaliDem Sep 2014 #2

Let them run for and win office. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #4

I mean BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #6

Have you run for office? Won, lost? So MLK eg, would not have had your respect? sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #17

Alright BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #3

I think you've made your dislike Union Scribe Sep 2014 #9

I do not disike the left in general, since I am a leftist. MohRokTah Sep 2014 #10

. Union Scribe Sep 2014 #11

Thank you for proving the point. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #12

(you didn't have one) nt Union Scribe Sep 2014 #13

And yet again, you prove the point. eom MohRokTah Sep 2014 #14

Funny, a lot of people definitely got that you don't like the 'left', which is fine, but the left sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #18

Martin Luther King, Walter Reuther, and Albert Einstein never won public office. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #15

So you DO respect prominent leftists like Dennis Kucinich eg? I'm not surprised btw, that you sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #16

The party just keeps sidestepping rightward. JEB Sep 2014 #5

yeah BlindTiresias Sep 2014 #7

I think a handful of Obama worshippers get their shorts in a twist JEB Sep 2014 #8

I threw a big one under the bus, OilemFirchen Sep 2014 #19