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5566 [lbo-talk] Daily Show: Bush vs. Obama rhetoric similarities -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:47 AM, B. wrote: > http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=216538&title=changefest-09-obamas-inaugural Ha. Looks like the pressure to be funny will keep them from turning into a cheering section. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 09:13:53 PST 2009

5567 [lbo-talk] worst prezdinet -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I just saw a "Communist Students" site that called Obama "the > world's no. 1 terrorist," even though he hasn't, like, done anything > yet. He became president of the U.S. Just sitting in the First Chair makes you the world's No. 1 terrorist. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 09:06:17 PST 2009

5568 [lbo-talk] interview -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry interviews me on the current mess: <http://www.minnpost.com/steveperry/2009/01/21/6035/no_bottom_in_sight_yet_a_conversation_with_doug_henwood >. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 21 08:44:56 PST 2009

5569 [lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:23 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote: > That does not mean any of the content sank in, even if there was > content > that would stick in one's mind. > > DC > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> >> I ain't read it, but in one of his "books," Obama reports on having >> gone to >>> a Socialist Scholars Conference in New York while he was at >>> Columbia. I ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 12:29:16 PST 2009

5570 [lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:46 PM, shag wrote: > If I've understood you correctly, I do have to wonder why Obama > should be > aware of what a leftist/leftish critique of his activities is. I > could see > him being aware of what various democrats and liberals think, but I > can't > see him being particularly aware of how Marxists think and, if he > is, my > guess is that he'd get it quite wrong. I don't know, I just think that > it's fairly easy to be a very smart person ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 11:56:40 PST 2009

5571 [lbo-talk] compare and contrast -- rank: 1000

Obama: > As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with > humble > gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off > deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, > just > as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We > honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but > because > they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in > something gr ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 11:51:25 PST 2009

5572 [lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred -- rank: 1000

Seems to me that there's a class angle to the FDR-Obama contrast that Frank was drawing attention to. As an aristocrat, FDR could more comfortably step on the toes of the class that produced him than could someone of modest means who believes in meritocracy. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 11:43:02 PST 2009

5573 [lbo-talk] polling post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/01/post-partianshi.html> Post-Partisanship? Let's See [Gary Langer] January 20, 2009 1:36 PM The buzz surrounding Barack Obama s inauguration made explicit in his address today is the prospect of a post-partisan presidency. The reality: Let s see. Part of the challenge is that post-partisanship means bridging fundamentally substantive political divisions itself no easy task. But there s more: Those divisions in fact have grown sharper ove ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 11:37:32 PST 2009

5574 [lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > OR DOES OBAMA AND HIS FRIENDS IN RULING ELITES think there MAY BE a > threat to markets? You may be right. But Barney Frank, who is no dope, would probably be in on the secret. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 11:29:26 PST 2009

5575 [lbo-talk] Frank: BHO should welcome their hatred -- rank: 1000

[Barney Frank: ""Barack Obama has this desire to be widely liked way more than is helpful. He should look to Franklin Roosevelt, who said he 'welcomed their [Republican] hatred'. We have real differences with the Republicans and, like FDR, we should draw the line."] Financial Times - January 20, 2009 Courting of conservative foes worries liberal camp By Edward Luce in Washington On his last night of freedom - so to speak - Barack Obama chose to host a dinner for John McCain, t ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 10:22:06 PST 2009

5576 [lbo-talk] crisis papers -- rank: 1000

Today's missive from Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, includes links to several pieces/papers on the economic crisis. Some, like Willem Buiter's, have already been posted here. Two that haven't: The Swedish central bank's history of that country's crisis resolution in the early 1990s: <http://www.riksbank.se/upload/Dokument_riksbank/Kat_publicerat/PoV_sve/eng/qr96_1.pdf > And a paper comparing Japan in the 1990s to the US today: <http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/anil.kashyap/ ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 09:47:03 PST 2009

5577 [lbo-talk] Buchanan: GOP cooked? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30332> Is GOP Still a National Party? by Patrick J. Buchanan (more by this author) Posted 01/20/2009 ET As President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address to a nation filled with anticipation and hope, the vital signs of the loyal opposition appear worse than worrisome. The new majority of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation Nixon cobbled together in 1972, that became the Reagan coalition of 49 states and 60 percent of the nation in 1 ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 20 09:32:22 PST 2009

5578 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusines ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 18:13:52 PST 2009

5579 [lbo-talk] gloom: freshly posted -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:06 PM, SA wrote: > In your chart, the 2008 drop in CP volume growth looks no steeper > than the drop in 2001, which was not a very serious recession. And > C&I loans grew faster in 2008 than they were growing in the late > 90's (?!) The Fed saved the CP market with its intervention - it's now buying something like a third of the issue. C&I loans were being held up by firms drawing down existing lines of credit that won't be renewed - the Fed's survey ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 19 12:20:43 PST 2009

5580 [lbo-talk] a blog -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > What's next -- Facebook? MySpace? > ... TWITTER?!?! They all preceded!

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