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Stephen C. Rose
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... The Progressive Party, in order to secure to the people a better administration of justice and by that means to bring about a more general respect for the law and the courts, pledges itself to work unceasingly for the reform of legal procedure and judicial and methods.

We favor the union of all the existing agencies of the Federal Government dealing with the public health into a single National health service ...

Peace and National Defense

Progressive Party deplores the survival in our civilization of the barbaric system of warfare among nations with its enormous waste of resources even in time of peace, and the consequent impoverishment of the life of the toiling masses. We pledge the party to use its best endeavors to substitutes judicial an other peaceful means of settling international differences.

The Immigrant


Through the establishment of industrial standards we propose to secure to the able-bodied immigrant and to his native fellow workers a larger share of American opportunity.

We denounce the fatal policy of indifference and neglect which has left our enormous immigrant population to become the prey of chance and cupidity....

While much of the Platform is tied to past issues, the idea is not different. The Obama Movement will necessarily be one that looks beyond the Democrat and Republican visions to the creation of a governance that is capable of liberating the country from the control of special interests and the restoration of participatory democracy so that it is a reality, not a catch phrase.

If you click the Game link above, you will see a simple anticipation of at least a 50 point Electoral victory for Obama. This is my anticipation of the redrawing of the electoral map.

This has already begun. It will begin in earnest when Hillary Clinton packs it in and Obama is freed to break the bonds of Primary Captivity and fly as the leader of a movement that can capture the imagination of the vast majority in the United States who are sick of the politics of gridlock and make believe

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Born in NYC, attended Oberlin & Trinity Schools, then Exeter and Williams (Phi Beta Kappa 1958). Worked with the Reverend James Robinson, finished Union Theological Seminary in NYC (1961). Joined Student Interracial Ministry in Nashville. Founded (more...)
 
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