Time for a new progressive third party...

The news came out today that Joe Sestak, the senatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, was offered an advisory board job or some such appointment from Bill Clinton, speaking for the Obama administration, if Sestak wouldn't run against incumbent Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter.

O.K., much can be determined from that one piece of information.

1). That Sestak didn't sell out for a presidential favor. I think that speaks well of Sestak, who had to run against Specter and all those Clinton/Obama jerks within the Democratic Party.

2). If President Obama wants to buddy-up to Bill Clinton and use Clinton advisers and continue to milquetost the Democratic Party into the same centrist nothingness that Bill Clinton offered during his presidency, why in the hell didn't Obama just let Hillary Clinton win the election? I thought we got rid of the Clintons once and that it was largely because of them, as well, that we ended up with the disaster of the Bush years.

3). If Obama doesn't start standing on his own and being the candidate that he promised to be, and dump the Clintons and their cronies, then I am done as a progressive in supporting Obama. I will then spend my time, my words of support, and any money that a Democratic Party is always seeking from me for a good, progressive, third party. I left the Democratic Party because of Bill Clinton and went to Nader and the Green Party. When Obama sounded like he was progressive, I returned. That was apparently a mistake.

Progressives need to find a good party that supports real progressive action. The Democratic Party is quagmired by fools of the past and apparently shills of the present. Progressives, let's go elsewhere.

It's early and we have time to find a real progressive candidate for 2012. There just has to be someone who believes in progressive stands and wants to provide real progressive change.