"GUEST, you and I both know that the word "liberal" has been demonized by the right, and that those who call themselves "progressive leftists" would have called themselves "liberals" twenty years ago."

WRONG. But just because you insist on wearing blinders and swallowing the mainstream media mantras doesn't mean I have to play your phony, disingenuous little game there, NERD.

I am proudly, unabashedly, A FLAMING LEFT WINGER!!! Yes, today we use the word 'progressive' often enough to describe ourselves. But you have one thing VERY wrong. 'Progressive' isn't a euphemism for 'liberal'. It is a euphemism for 'radical left'. That is where I am now, where I have always been, and where I shall always remain.

No suprise that Rapaire and Big Mick come down on the same side either.

Jesse Jackson is a Democrat. Paul Wellstone was a Democrat. There are many green leaning Democrats. The majority of registered Democrats (and 80% of the current convention's delegates) are anti-war, and their views are being 100% ignored by the Democratic Party platform that will be voted on and adopted without any debate (which is as poison to the Democratic elite as it is the Republican elite)this week. Kucinich is a Democrat. Russ Feignold is a Democrat. Cynthia McKinney is a Democrat.

Yet the Democratic Party elite have silenced them all.

What Dave Dellinger (may he RIP) said at the 1968 Democratic National Convention is as true today as it was then:

"Our position is that whoever the candidates are, and whatever the platforms, that we must stay in the streets and stay in active resistance or else there will be no peace."

And let's not forget, the Democrats were running against a candidate every bit as evil as Dubya: Richard Nixon.