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7081 [lbo-talk] obama's end run around the democratic party? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I honestly don't see why this new style electoral base should be any > less effective as a governor. All O has to do is throw 'em a few bones, like stem cell research and high-minded rhetoric, and they'll click away in '12. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 9 06:49:16 PST 2008

7082 [lbo-talk] obama's end run around the democratic party? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 6:03 PM, RCu8598882 at aol.com wrote: > its interesting how the > Marxist left has written off Obama and his movement more quickly > than the right > has. I'm not sure what Obama's "movement" is - you can identify his demographic, but it's not really constituted as a movement in any organized or conscious sense - but leaving that aside, let's compare notes in a year, ok? Doug

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7083 [lbo-talk] why Obama will have to kill some Muslims soon -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/world/middleeast/08jihadi.html> New York Times - November 8, 2008 Jihadi Leader Says Radicals Share Obama Victory By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and SOUAD MEKHENNET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The leader of a jihadi group in Iraq argued Friday that the election of Barack Obama as president represented a victory for radical Islamic groups that had battled American forces since the invasion of Iraq. The statement, which experts said was part of the psychological ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 12:42:05 PST 2008

7084 [lbo-talk] Happy Anniversary -- rank: 1000

91 years ago today, the Bolshevik Revolution.

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 12:02:05 PST 2008

7085 [lbo-talk] Keep The Change! Palin 2012 -- rank: 1000

[change keeps changing, doesn't it? via Human Events] <http://www.discountbookdistributors.com/youcankeepthechangepalin2012bumpersticker2-pack-1.aspx > You Can Keep "The Change" / PALIN 2012 Bumper Sticker (2-PACK)-GOP List Price: $19.95 Your Price: $9.86 You Save: $10.09 (51%) Item Number: BST-CHNG BONUS OFFER: GET A 10-PACK FOR ONLY $29.88! IN STOCK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th! "I'll keep my guns, freedom, and money. You can keep the change." Vote Sarah Palin for President ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 12:01:29 PST 2008

7086 [lbo-talk] and you thought the DLC was dead? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > If we are looking for possible falsifications to your theory, who > would > qualify? Reich or Bonior? Not Reich. Bonior, maybe. Trumka, yes. Not Stern, though. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 10:50:44 PST 2008

7087 [lbo-talk] adolph reed? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Please tell Adloph Reed that this bitch would love to hear him weigh > in on recent events. Adolph was on my show on Thursday. I'll post the file on Monday. Doug

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7088 [lbo-talk] and you thought the DLC was dead? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Unlike El Busho, the new occupant of the WH is not a dummy. He is > actually > interested in domestic policy, and he is going to be in charge, not > the DLC. > > The DLC is not some cabal plotting its next move. It's a membership > list > of moderate-to-conservative Dems and a think tank with some not very > consequential figures. The new Administration is much bigger and > broader > than the DLC. The DLC is ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 09:26:19 PST 2008

7089 [lbo-talk] Question to list about FDR's monetary policy -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 11:11 AM, B. wrote: > What was the New Deal economic logic behind making private ownership > of gold illegal, and asking folks to hand it over to the govt. at a > fixed exchange rate? They wanted to drive a stake through the heart of the gold standard.

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 08:43:51 PST 2008

7090 [lbo-talk] and you thought the DLC was dead? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2008, at 1:15 AM, shag wrote: > BTW, who has said the DLC was dead? Nathan Newman used to say that.

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7091 [lbo-talk] more Emanuel: the former i-banker remakes Wall Street -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 8, 2008 Emanuel Pick Underscores Balancing Act Ahead in Reshaping Financial Industry By BRODY MULLINS and SIOBHAN HUGHES President-elect Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, will be working on overhauling the same financial industry that brought him millions of dollars as an investment banker. Mr. Obama's choice of Mr. Emanuel to lead his White House staff through the economic crisis symbolizes the awkward balancing act that Democr ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 08:41:00 PST 2008

7092 [lbo-talk] AP: US jobless rate highest in quarter of a century -- rank: 1000

The employment/population ratio - the share of the adult population working - fell to its lowest level since 1993. That means that the entire job boom of the late 1990s was undone by two recessions bookending an anemic expansion. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 8 08:33:25 PST 2008

7093 [lbo-talk] more DLC -- rank: 1000

Forgot to include this with that bit of DLC news: For more information: The New Order, Washington Post Editorial http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110602898.html The Plan: Big Ideas for America, By Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed http://www.readtheplan.com "Emanuel's Keynote Address to the 2008 DLC National Conversation" http://www.dlc.org/specials/NC2008/Emanuel_Keynote/ "DLC Bi-Partisan Congressional Debate Series" http://www.dlc.org/specials ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 7 11:06:13 PST 2008

7094 [lbo-talk] labor? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Actually, Antonio Villaraigosa is pretty close. I believe he has a > history of involvement (employment?) with labor and certainly as > Mayor of Los Angeles, and before that state legislator, had VERY > close ties with the local unions. [Also may be the front runner for > the Dem nomination for California Governorship since rival SF Mayor > Gavin Newsom may be damaged goods as a result of his role in the > Prop 8 defeat ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 7 10:39:27 PST 2008

7095 [lbo-talk] joke -- rank: 1000

[also from The Note] "Barack Obama once joked at a charity dinner that when Rahm Emanuel severed his middle finger, it almost rendered him mute," Bloomberg's Michael Tackett writes.

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