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2596 [lbo-talk] Obama people deny NYT story about Tea Party -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] BEHIND THE CURTAIN - NYTimes.com posted a real holy-cow story last night: "Obama Advisers Weigh Ad Assault Against the G.O.P." The lead: "President Obama's political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a national advertising campaign that would cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said." It was the l ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 06:23:38 PDT 2010

2597 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration (Was: Warren is in...) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > I have some friends who are active in this movement. I don't at all regard them as "naive" for seeing a Democratic administration at this juncture as the ONLY vehicle through which it might be obtained. I don't necessarily disagree with that, but with the current lineup of forces, it is impossible to imagine anything like this happening now. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 20 06:21:27 PDT 2010

2598 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration (Was: Warren is in...) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > it was well within the realm of possibility for US capitalism to move towards a European/Canadian universal health care system Really? Can't you see what this place is like? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 19 20:35:21 PDT 2010

2599 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration (Was: Warren is in...) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Doug, then what's up with folks like Krugman w/r/t his post-War liberal > critiques of Obama's capitulation, weakness, etc.? Whaddya mean, what's up? From my experience with another prominent left-liberal economist, people like this sorta know better but don't want to go so far that they'll get kicked out of the club. So they contort themselves into knots of self-deception and end up saying the silliest things. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 14:31:11 PDT 2010

2600 [lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration (Was: Warren is in...) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 19, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > They did not expect the administration to capitulate to the Republicans and the bankers, and they were not - from a bourgeois standpoint, and despite the verities of many on the left - ridiculously utopian to expect it to be otherwise. Sure they were. C'mon, Marv, Obama himself showed no tendencies to buck the system that had made him, and he made that very clear by how he campaigned and the people he surrounded himself with. That, plus the a ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 19 12:29:22 PDT 2010

2601 [lbo-talk] Warren is in... -- rank: 1000

She's not heading the thing, she's just consulting on its creation.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 22:02:43 PDT 2010

2602 [lbo-talk] Jacobin magazine - issue one released -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > the Utopia across the Atlantic Who said it was Utopia? Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 14:17:22 PDT 2010

2603 [lbo-talk] Jacobin magazine - issue one released -- rank: 1000

On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:59 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I just wish he'd spend less time telling us that we are ignorant, and more time describing what is going on. True. And it'd be nice if he showed some understanding of why Americans might find Europe, or a fantasy of Europe, appealing. For all the nastiness of German neoliberalism, there's still less inequality & poverty there than here. From the Luxembourg income study data for 2004 (with poverty based on the <50% of the medi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 09:26:11 PDT 2010

2604 [lbo-talk] help? Soc of Work -- rank: 1000

Ever read any of Ursula Huws stuff? I think she's pretty great.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 17 08:27:40 PDT 2010

2605 [lbo-talk] Jacobin magazine - issue one released -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:35 AM, bhaskar sunkara wrote: > http://jacobinmag.com It's not "Adolf [Reed]"! It's Adolph!! I know he's got a moustache...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 18:02:30 PDT 2010

2606 [lbo-talk] Jacobin magazine - issue one released -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:35 AM, bhaskar sunkara wrote: > http://jacobinmag.com > > Entirely the work of children born in the 1980s. Really good stuff. Man, you fuckers are young! Love your piece on the Zaps. > Still a few formatting kinks to be worked out, but there's some readable material up there now, including stuff from LBO-talk contributors Chris Maisano and Max Ajl, as well as interviews with Walter Benn Michaels and Azar Nafisi.** Coupla minor points. It would have been nice if ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 16 17:56:49 PDT 2010

2607 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ricky Page wrote: > Who was the gentleman Amy Goodman interviewd this morning, really good, > especially on Obama. http://www.democracynow.org/

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:22:25 PDT 2010

2608 [lbo-talk] why Washington is so thrilling -- rank: 1000

This is what qualifies as gossip in DC. From Mike Allen: "SPOTTED: Gloria Borger and NRSC Executive Director Rob Jesmer, having lunch at Johnny's Half Shell."

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 07:45:45 PDT 2010

2609 [lbo-talk] Dems have new logo, slogan -- rank: 1000

Dems have unleashed a new logo and slogan! CHANGE THAT MATTERS! Check it out: http://www.democrats.org/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 15 18:26:17 PDT 2010

2610 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 many opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive (and apologies for the delay) <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: September 9, 2010 Liz McNichol of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the fiscal crisis of the states Yanis Varoufaki ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 15 13:20:53 PDT 2010