Posted on 07/24/2010 9:29:37 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
“I wish things were as bad for progressives as progressives think they are.”
That was one epiphany for Phillip Klein, a conservative writer for the American Spectator, after palling around with liberal bloggers for several days at the fifth annual Netroots Nation in Las Vegas this weekend. Klein was marveling at the melancholy suffusing the conference, given the Obama administration’s undeniable legislative accomplishments to date. The health care bill “alone,” he said, “is more than any liberal has passed since LBJ.”
Now Klein could just be, in web parlance, concern-trolling for his political opponents. But his view coincides neatly with several of the political heavyweights who spoke at keynote sessions of the conference, when most of the 2,100 attendees gathered in a cavernous Vegas ballroom flanked by dark curtains studded with glow-in-the-dark stars. The flashy digs hosted Democratic Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and liberal heavyweights like Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Van Jones, Richard Trumka, Majora Carter and Markos Moulitsas, who founded the blog that first spawned the conference.
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"Lt. Dan Choi was one of the first and most prominent soldiers discharged for sexual orientation during the Obama administration, and he has become a vocal activist for repealing DADT. Choi asked Joan McCarter, a DailyKos blogger, to present his West Point graduation ring to Harry Reid during a keynote session. (Reid’s hometown session was carried live by only one cable channel: Fox News.) Reid had previously pledged to Choi that he would end DADT by 2009. First Reid said he couldn’t accept the ring, just as he had declined one of his son’s championship rings. Then members of the audience yelled out that Reid could take it and return it once DADT was signed. Reid agreed on the spot; Choi jumped onto the stage and the two embraced to a thundering standing ovation.
“The ring means a promise,” Choi told The Nation after the exchange. “And that ring was my promise to serve, and that promise that Harry gave to me that he would end DADT by 2009 was broken. So now I had to renew that promise,” he explained, “and it’s a symbol of the promise to hold our friends accountable.”
Choi added that Reid was the “most powerful” senator, so for him to claim he cannot do anymore for reform “betrays what it means to be a leader of anything.”
FOX NEWS covered Al Franken's speech at the Progressive Blogger convention in Vegas tonight. Lack luster, but informative or "red meat" for the Right as the Fox anchor described it. Franken praised his own Air America, his book & the Daily Kos. Targets: Fox, AT&T, Verizon (owning the pipeline, example), Comcast were in his sights..Big Corporations with Big Money. One issue upsetting the Progressive Franken has to be the FCC is supporting an old media cross-ownership rule that allows companies to own more media outlets in communities across the country.
Franken closed by calling the progressive bloggers and himself: The Networks Nation Gang.
opening his man-pleaser is what got the Lt. in trouble in the first place. some people never learn when to STFU.
In the grand scheme of things they will probably be known by another name or alias in the weeks to come. Liberals, Progressives, Netroots Gang......
LOL, poor Harry, being held hostage like that by a raving homo in front of all those nutroots. What was he going to do, turn the perv down and get booed off the stage?
Accoplishment, perhaps, victory, don't make me laugh. I guess in the world of politics it's a "victory" if you manage to pass legislation which the great majority, don't want, and lie through your teeth to get it passed (even with the lies a great majority wanted nothing to do with it), not to mention it breaking the bank in the process.
Choi was one of the silky “soldiers” who chained himself to the White House fence last spring. He runs around in uniform playing gay soldier. The perfect shock troop for the lavender mafia.
I’m surprised to see Harry accepted his ring, I thought Harry was already married. Are the LDS ready to marry gays in the temple? Will a KOS blogger be the ring bearer?
I wonder if Choi ever served *under* Wesley Clark.
Is Wesley Clark gay?
If he isn't, he's the only straight person to ever appear on the cover of "The Advocate" in a leather jacket and v-neck t-shirt...
oh.
LOL! At least Choi isn't a cross-dresser...now that would have been embarrassing!
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