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7591 [lbo-talk] Jann Wenner luvs BHO -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] WOW: The cover of the new Rolling Stone looks like a photo. But it's an ILLUSTRATION of Senator Obama, appearing to step out of white clouds and blue sky. 'BARACK OBAMA: A New Hope. EXCLUSIVE: Inside his people-powered revolution. ENDORSEMENT: The candidate and the call of history. HILLARY'S LAST STAND. THE BLACK CROWES: Back, better and still brawling." Oh, I guess we can stop there ... From Jann Wenner's endorsement, best read with classical musi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 11:53:13 PST 2008

7592 [lbo-talk] Justin Raimondo: Confessions of an Obama Cultist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Raimondo and I are on similar pages here: > > "With the GOP presidential sweepstakes over, the antiwar voter that > is, the single-issue voter who conditions his support on the > candidate's generally pro-peace foreign policy stance was left with > a single choice, and that is Obama. Alas, the scholar of monsters begs to differ: New York Daily News - March 8th 2008 <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ 2008/03 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 8 05:03:01 PST 2008

7593 [lbo-talk] Peace agreement between Colombia and neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela in Santo Domingo -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://550.dreamhosters.com/yvke/noticia.php?3852 > > This is my translation of the paragraph before the last: > > To leave the conflict behind, president Correa addressed president > Uribe: "If you hand me all those supposed documents recovered from the > FARC computers so that I turn them to the political opposition in > Ecuador for them to investigate them, I consider the conflict with > Colombia settled." W ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 7 16:00:14 PST 2008

7594 [lbo-talk] Peace agreement between Colombia and neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela in Santo Domingo -- rank: 1000

On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://550.dreamhosters.com/yvke/noticia.php?3852 > > This is my translation of the paragraph before the last: > > To leave the conflict behind, president Correa addressed president > Uribe: "If you hand me all those supposed documents recovered from the > FARC computers so that I turn them to the political opposition in > Ecuador for them to investigate them, I consider the conflict with > Colombia settled." W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 16:00:14 PST 2008

7595 [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> now also broadcast on KPFA, Berkeley! (details below) "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Newly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Ra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 15:48:03 PST 2008

7596 [lbo-talk] maxim to live by -- rank: 1000

Tina Gaudoin, editor of the WSJ's new glossy supplement: "Don't disrespect rich people's respect for money." <http://wwd.com/fashion/article/123238>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 7 09:51:56 PST 2008

7597 [lbo-talk] the crucial have a beer with poll -- rank: 1000

<http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2008/3/7/Obama-A-bud-to- share-a-Bud-with?cid=email-blog> Obama: A bud to share a Bud with March 7, 1:09 AM Great. ... All we need is another political phrase of the moment. Remember soccer moms ? Then latte liberals ? Here s a new one: Draft beer Democrats. A new survey by the National Beer Wholesalers Association asked individuals to name the candidate they d most like to have a beer with, and Barack Obama easily cruised to victory (4 ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 7 05:11:22 PST 2008

7598 [lbo-talk] Samantha Power calls HRC a "monster" -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] ALKER - HERE'S THE 'OFF THE RECORD' THING - The Scotsman, based in Edinburgh, has a frustrated Samantha Power referring to Senator Clinton as a 'monster ... that is off the record' - 'Inside US poll battle as fight turns dirty for Democrats': 'HILLARY Clinton has been branded a 'monster' by one of Barack Obama's top advisers, as the gloves come off in the race to win the Democrat nomination. In recent TV appearances Mrs. Clinton had looked desperate an ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 7 04:38:28 PST 2008

7599 [lbo-talk] what chutzpah -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:42 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Well if that's really what's she's planning, that's the best reason > yet > for people to ask her to drop out. That'd be the Samson solution > to her > problems. She'd bring the house down on everybody's head. It makes > perfect sense for people in there to yell at her not to. But she's ahead now in the polls and there are more primaries ahead. Why should BHO be the presumptive nominee, other than because you like him bet ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 18:59:19 PST 2008

7600 [lbo-talk] what chutzpah -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Because she's behind in the delegate count and probably can't > overcome it. More from The Note: > The supers stay put (at least for now). Bloomberg News' Kristin > Jensen and Julianna Goldman: "A group of uncommitted > 'superdelegates' were ready to make a show of support for Obama by > trying to pressure Clinton to give up, said Tim Roemer, a former > congressman who's rounding up backers for Obama. Now, after her &g ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 15:24:06 PST 2008

7601 [lbo-talk] what chutzpah -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Because she's behind in the delegate count and probably can't > overcome it. Underscore probably. From The Note: > For Clinton, it's not a direct path, but she sees daylight. > "[Clinton] advisers sketched out a new scenario for overcoming > Obama's delegate lead: a Clinton win in the Pennsylvania Democratic > primary in April and then persuading the more than 300 uncommitted > superdelegates who are poised to decide t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 15:21:46 PST 2008

7602 [lbo-talk] So no one knows of a good, credible book that exlains specific corporate collaborations w/ Nazism, huh? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:44 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Charles Higham's Trading With The Enemy > > I like this (relatively "nonscholarly" but > substantially accurate book. You're in good company; it gets Noam Chomsky's endorsement, though he complains that there are no footnotes. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 12:24:51 PST 2008

7603 [lbo-talk] what chutzpah -- rank: 1000

The annoying Truthout writes: > Marc Ash | Time to Bow Out > http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030608A.shtml > Marc Ash writes for Truthout: "Hillary Clinton had a good day on > March 4. She reminded us she exists in her own right, and we may > feel free to assume she played more than a trivial role in the > Clinton presidential administration of the 90s. That said, she is > the second most successful Democratic presidential candidate > running this year, not the fir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 6 11:37:43 PST 2008

7604 [lbo-talk] Remarkably small delegate gain for Clinton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:53 AM, B. wrote: > Obamaniacs could > compensate for that by using their insane zeal to have > them go out yet again to vote at precinct HQs, which > are combative, zealot-filled places. And the scenes that Fox described at those places sounded insane - massively overcrowded, insufficient numbers of ballots, crazed mobs, etc. Weird state, Texas. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 09:06:08 PST 2008

7605 [lbo-talk] Remarkably small delegate gain for Clinton -- rank: 1000

On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:35 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > And just out of curiosity on the Fox point, do you remember them > mentioning the fact that he'd won the caucus part of it with greater > profit than she got by winning the primary part? Most commentators > just > said she won Texas, which actually doesn't seem be true by the > scorecard > of delegates. The pop vote was perceived as important for the perception of momentum perception. And yes, they did point out that he ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 08:53:39 PST 2008