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"Common Good" is pretty common (none / 0) (#1)
by Rich on Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 08:50:48 PM EST
BTD--where have you been? I have a lot of respect for Jim McDermott (I live all the way across the country, but I've very familiar with him), but "common good" has been a concept of faith for generations of liberals (and some thoughtful conservatives, too).

It certainly was (none / 0) (#2)
by Big Tent Democrat on Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 08:57:02 PM EST
a long time ago.

Can you cite and link to anyone using that phrase before McDermott in the last 10 years?

BTW, if what you say is true, then why the big whoop about Tomasky's formulation?

I do not agree with you but if I didi, I wonder that you do not wonder at all the fuss over Tomasky's use of the phrase. He has gotten alot of press for it.

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i hate to bust your bubble (none / 0) (#3)
by cpinva on Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 09:40:49 PM EST
(ok, no i don't, i enjoy busting your chops! lol),

but where do you think the term "commonwealth" originated? geez, you think this was some unique articulation of a never before advocated principal of societal formulation?

quick history lesson: jamestown, va, 1607, capt. john smith, placed in charge of the venture by its investors, decrees that "he who does not work, does not eat". further, every able-bodied man was expected to take his turn at watch, along the triangular fort's corner posts, for the "common good".

hey, it's a great concept, just nothing new under the sun.

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Of courdse it is not new (none / 0) (#8)
by Big Tent Democrat on Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 06:49:48 AM EST
But articulating that the Dem Party needs to make it a centerpiece again was new and McDermott did it.

I do not think you folks are following me here.

My bad. I should have made it clearer.

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