These spots are brilliant, thanks for posting them!

-Wexler

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The term is liberal and dammit I'm proud to be a liberal. Until we stop running from republican labels we will not get anywhere.

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What is going on with my fellow Americans..How about we are Americans that have diverse views on a lot of issues! The left and the right are steering the sleeping ones in the middle and if you really want to be Independent jump off that bird and think for yourself! Stop letting these political hacks tell you who or what you are! Wake up! We are run by Corporations not this illusion of left and right!

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... or call me a liberal, becuase:
"Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities, and hence, it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak." ~Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"The modern Conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy -- that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." ~John Kenneth Galbraith
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This guy, is claiming she's a progressive.

But, right now lots of you liberals (socialists, leftists, progressives, whatEVER, neo-WHATevers) are pissed (or are supposed to be, anyway) about her position on progressive (or is it liberal) "things".

What's going on here? Who's what?

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These ads are exactly what will influence Americans. I love them.

I once reminded my right-leaning grandfather that his education, home, monthly Social Security checks, and much more, sprang from the New Deal and the work of the (then) progressive Democratic Party.

I didn't hear him cheering the Republicans tearing it all down any more.

"Thanks" to the Center for American Progress for reminding us that the "good life" sprang from progressive actions -- in spite of conservatives fighting tooth and nail against.

(Makes me think republicans/neocons/conservatives would like to see seniors starving, children uneducated and working alongside their parents to provide more wealth for the rich to steal. It appears repugs support soldiers only for battle, then discard them. Would repugs like to rape our national parks and send women back to the kitchen? I can't see how repugs stand for any postitve action, only positive (hypocritical) words.)

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I like the second one.

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Thank you! This is exactly what we on the left need to be doing. We tend to get so focused on individual issues that we aren't presenting the big picture to the American public.

When I ran for state office last year in a VERY Republican district I got to talk with a lot of people in my district. On numerous occasions I found myself thinking, "these people are Democrats, they just THINK they're Republicans."

We can waste a lot of time blaming the stupidity of the people, or the laziness of the people for not better informing themselves or we can accept the fact that for whatever reason the people are misinformed and try to work from that reality.

That's exactly what these ads do. It's like a remedial Civics class for the electorate. We can argue all day about what caused the need for the remedial primer, or we can just try to fix the problem.

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in Oklahoma. The media is totally in the grip of BIG business. My brief, incomplete, search on the internet showed that SICKO played in one theatre briefly in the entire state. Molly Ivins sister publication in Oklahoma has a circulation of 25,000. That is twenty five thousand card carrying liberals in a whole state.

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