(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos)

Last week, the increasingly irrelevant Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) released a platform called the American Dream Platform. As it is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's pet project for the DLC, one might be interested to see what the intellectual heavyweights that claim the 'centrist' mantle of the Democratic Party (despite hiring people who sound oddly like foaming-at-the-mouth Republicans) had to offer. When one clicks at the above link, you get this optimistic editor's note:

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One would think that such a foreboding warning could mean that this document may carry some intellectual heft to it. But alas, if you actually read the PDF version of the 'book', it's a mere 12 pages long. For a document that had the backing of such think tanks as the Center for American Progress, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the New Democratic Network, I would have thought that some real thought would have been put into this so-called 'initiative'. Instead, what you end up with are populist-sounding claims that have absolutely no concrete policy proposals backing them up.

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