Beaten to the Progressive Punch…..Yay!

As I was sitting and pondering yet again how to present the data that On The Bus has valiantly summarized  from the Progressive Voices Project….I drifted over to Truth and Progress. To find that we are unsurprisingly not alone in trying to find a common definition of what it means to be “a Progressive.” Somehow the Center for American Progress seems to have stolen a march on Docudharma!

From Think Progress and  John Halpin, a Senior Fellow and Executive Speechwriter at the Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress, in conjunction with the Glaser Progress Foundation, recently launched a multi-year effort to increase public understanding of what it means to be a progressive given our nation’s history and the challenges we face today.

The first part of the campaign involves a pilot experiment to begin defining progressivismin the public’s mind through a series of distinct advertisements that explain the progressive movement’s core values and policy ideas, its historical accomplishments, and its philosophical differences with conservatives.

They have produced four videos for test marketing, you can view them below the fold. There is also a nice article highlighting The Global Common Good. The link at the bottom leads to more info on their panel.

Watch the videos and see what you think!

19 comments

Skip to comment form

  1. Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

  2. I goes beautifully with coffee 😉  The follower two…….why would any woman be a conservative?  Oh yeah, at least when you’re Queen of the Shit Pile you’re queen of something 😉

  3. will link to the youtube page, where everyone should rate these videos up….

    and these have enabled commenting on youtube…and some of the people watching there are the ones we’re trying to get to….just sayin’….

    • pfiore8 on November 15, 2007 at 17:21

    i liked the first one and am still trying to get the others to launch

    • KrisC on November 15, 2007 at 17:28

    Sweet and to the point!  

    It’s a great question, what DO conservatives stand for…smaller guvmint?  Well they haven’t succeeded in that…

    tax cuts?  Well somebody has to pay for their stupid wars that they scream for…

    No, I don’t think we’re alone in this fight to get our rights back, or wanting to end the war, or demanding that justice be done to those whom want to oppress us…

    I think we are just beginning to gather our voices, and the ones that yell the loudest will be heard-Keep yelling Buhdy et al…

    Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

    • Alma on November 15, 2007 at 17:46

    Sorry!

    We were unable to locate that page. Please return to the front page

  4. Very effective.

    Another thing:

    Watching those ads, you’d almost think the CAP was promoting a third party.

    • robodd on November 15, 2007 at 18:28

    in response to wanting “our food and water safe” he would have said “ours, what does that mean?”

Comments have been disabled.