Osama Bin Laden, a man who manipulated people with twisted claims about spirituality to mobilize and glamorize an on-going campaign of mass murder, has been stopped dead in his tracks. Normally, I could see why this would be cause for celebration. Indeed, I am relieved he has been stopped from killing anyone else and stopped from continuing to voice justifications for violence and inhumanity. But celebration is unfitting given the tragic and criminal history of our former leaders’ use...
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Pledging to Prohibit Policy Riders in Budget Negotiations
Two weeks ago, the Democratic women of the United States Senate demonstrated to the nation the type of hard-nosed leadership necessary to raise the Democratic Party far above the Republican Party in the public eye. Unfortunately, while they were modeling for President Obama what real leadership looks like, one of their brethren, Senator Jon Tester of Montana, was doing his best to maintain “politics as usual.” The good news is that Democrats can still build on the progress achieved...
The Birthday Gift America Cannot Do Without
Declare a Democratic Worldview by John Hank Edson This Fourth of July, let’s give America the birthday present she cannot do without. Let’s give the people back their Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence sets forth a worldview that, back in the 18th century, served as the foundation of our new nation. This foundation was composed of the principle of human equality and the rights of self-determination implied by the famous phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of...
Obama’s ‘New Declaration of Independence’
By Hank Edson If you are a frequent reader of the Democratic Daily, you know that on election night, November 4, 2008, I published my first book, The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview, a sequel to The Declaration of Independence. That night I also posted the preface to my book on this site. If you’d like a copy, you can get one at: http://democracypress.net. I dedicated my Declaration to Barack Obama and added this thought: History will honor the...
Preface to The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview
By John Hank Edson Dedicated to Barack Obama History will honor the architects who advance the quality of humanity by improving the structures of democracy. This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an extraordinary and important moment in the history of the United States of America. In May, 75,000 people overflowed an auditorium in Portland, Oregon to hear Barack Obama give a campaign speech in his run to become the...
A Positive Vision of 21st Century Democracy
We need to be as ambitious in envisioning political process integrity as John Edwards has been honest in talking about political process corruption. For supporters of John Edwards, the end of his 2008 campaign for the presidency should not be spent in either deep gloom or false bravado. The future of the cause Edwards champions remains open and John Edwards’ influence on the rest of this campaign and perhaps on the next four years is unknown. We would be...
What the Reagan-Flap Really Says about Obama, Clinton, and Edwards
The recent flap over Barack Obama’s comments on Ronald Reagan speaks volumes about what distinguishes our three democratic presidential candidates. But what it says is not complementary to either Obama or Clinton. Instead, once again, it shows us that John Edwards is the real candidate all Democrats should support. Obama’s Intent When Obama described Reagan’s Republican Party as the “party of ideas,” his intention was to use Reagan as a sort of yardstick for measuring whether or not a...
Goldilocks and the Three Candidates
It was primary day in the forest and so Goldilocks told her mother she was going to go vote. Goldilocks was a Democrat and she was terrified at the terrible condition of her country. Her vote today mattered a great deal to both her and her country. She left her home and went down the path to the local library where the voting booths were all set up. The kind young man at the welcome counter had her sign...
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