Word: antiwar
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...former Senate aide who helped found the DLC in reaction to the Walter Mondale presidential wipeout in 1984 and now serves as its CEO. From is a moderate who acts like an extremist. Early on, he gleefully picked fights with various crumbling pillars of post-Vietnam liberalism-trade unions, antiwar activists and ethnic pleaders. Many of these battles were worth waging, especially on social issues like crime and welfare reform, where Democrats had drifted into a slough of guilt and warped good intentions...
...That fight reached a climax in 2006, when From, independent of the DLC, supported his friend Senator Joe Lieberman, who was facing a primary challenge in Connecticut from Ned Lamont, a blogger-backed antiwar candidate. The Lamont primary victory followed by the Lieberman general-election victory (as an independent) infuriated the party's activists. They argued that From, like Lieberman, seemed to see liberals as a greater threat than the singularly awful presidency of George W. Bush. Indeed, the activists became positively Fromian: they decided to drum him and his DLC out of the party-and with their cybermegaphone plus...
...keep the pressure up by continuing to schedule votes on Iraq and hope "that more Republicans will go to the White House and say, 'We can't do this anymore.'" The reply didn't quite mollify Gabriel, 49, a financial adviser who calls himself pro-life, pro-gun but antiwar. His son Michael, 22, is in the National Guard in neighboring Ohio; half of his division is expected to be deployed to Iraq...
CINDY SHEEHAN, former figurehead of the antiwar movement, on her threat to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless the Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush by July...
CINDY SHEEHAN, mother from California who became an antiwar leader after her son was killed in Iraq, declaring in her online diary that she is walking away from the peace movement...