http://anarchogeek.com/2008/01/04/the-iowa-primary-and-two-parties-vs-four/ Wed, 02 May 2012 23:09:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://anarchogeek.com/2008/01/04/the-iowa-primary-and-two-parties-vs-four/comment-page-1/#comment-1604 Jonathan Nil Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:40:00 +0000 http://anarchogeek.com/2008/01/04/the-iowa-primary-and-two-parties-vs-four#comment-1604 <p>Interesting to me that you assumed Obama was a ‘centrist’. I don’t pay that much attention to the electioneering, but must mean he’s running that way. Having lived in Chicago for 7 years, I had assumed that Obama was super progressive. Despite running against Bobby Rush, that’s his reputation among white politicos in Chicago. I was actually surprised to take a look at his positions and find he wasn’t quite so ‘progressive’ as I had assumed.</p> Interesting to me that you assumed Obama was a ‘centrist’. I don’t pay that much attention to the electioneering, but must mean he’s running that way. Having lived in Chicago for 7 years, I had assumed that Obama was super progressive. Despite running against Bobby Rush, that’s his reputation among white politicos in Chicago. I was actually surprised to take a look at his positions and find he wasn’t quite so ‘progressive’ as I had assumed.

]]> http://anarchogeek.com/2008/01/04/the-iowa-primary-and-two-parties-vs-four/comment-page-1/#comment-1622 Matt Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:40:00 +0000 http://anarchogeek.com/2008/01/04/the-iowa-primary-and-two-parties-vs-four#comment-1622 <p>There’s a certain historical antecedent to Huckabee, William Jennings Bryan. While certainly not a socialist or republican, Bryan was a religious conservative running for president (as a democrat) with a somewhat liberal economic position (and critical corporate bent). Like Huckabee, he did not believe in evolution (in fact he was involved in a court case trying to rid a Tennessee school of evolution).</p> There’s a certain historical antecedent to Huckabee, William Jennings Bryan. While certainly not a socialist or republican, Bryan was a religious conservative running for president (as a democrat) with a somewhat liberal economic position (and critical corporate bent). Like Huckabee, he did not believe in evolution (in fact he was involved in a court case trying to rid a Tennessee school of evolution).

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