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7651 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > I've always thought that > alienation is the problem, not the solution. The older I get, the less cool I think it is to be alieanted. But, really, some things deserve at least a little distance. Someone wrote me offlist yesterday saying "You really hate Obama, don't you?" I don't hate him. But he's just a Democrat, not some quasi- revolutionary semi-Messiah. It's the intensity of the delusions surrounding him that surround him ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 4 04:24:22 PST 2008

7652 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:22 PM, shag wrote: > sure sounds like it. i just couldn't figure out *why* he'd be such > a hack. > like i can't figure out *why* max and julio are obama hacks. *shrug* Hillary's a pig - our friend Abu Hartal is sounding off on Lou P's list about how I'm a mean scumbag and apologist for Hillary and the war machine. I hate Hillary and the war machine. In any case, I thought Wilson put together some useful stuff - e.g., BHO's failure to hold any hearings with his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 18:58:40 PST 2008

7653 [lbo-talk] CFP: why are faggots so afraid of faggots? -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:52:48 -0800 From: "Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore" <mattilda at sbcglobal.net> Reply-To: mattilda at sbcglobal.net Sender: nobodypasses at gmail.com To: mattilda <Mattilda at sbcglobal.net> Subject: Extended deadline for my new anthology -- please forward! X-Google-Sender-Auth: bba489aedb8a7d89 Hi everyone-- I've received a ton of brilliant submissions for Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?, but I'm extending the call for submissions all the way to ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 18:20:45 PST 2008

7654 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:44 PM, shag wrote: > What's Joe Wilson's stake in this? He's a Clinton hack, no?

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 11:53:48 PST 2008

7655 [lbo-talk] language -- rank: 1000

I'm reading the Stiglitz and Bilmes book on the $3 trillion cost for the Iraq war in preparation for interviewing Stiglitz shortly. The Pentagon gives $100,000 to the families of soldiers killed in action; they call this a "death gratuity."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 3 10:35:44 PST 2008

7656 [lbo-talk] circle of change -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, March 3, 2008 Contact: Greg Denier or Noreen Nielsen at nnn-nnn-nnnn CHANGE TO WIN LEADERS STAND WITH SEN. OBAMA Denounce Latest Tactics to Smear His Trade Positions WASHINGTON, DC - Following is a statement from Change to Win leadership denouncing the latest smear tactics on Sen. Barack Obama's trade positions. "Our unions decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama because of his strong stand on the issue of fair trade. In all of our discussions with him, it ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 10:10:31 PST 2008

7657 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Paul Papadeas wrote: > But what ultimately is Socialism for the 21st century? Wouldn't > this also include the ability to allow everyday people to control > their own destinies outside of the need for government mediation? > To fall into a stateless situation? > > Is this merely a pipe dream - even for the long term future? How can we possibly tell that now? We have no idea what would happen over the long term as a result of the struggles that p ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 09:47:20 PST 2008

7658 [lbo-talk] Chavez: slow down -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Paul Papadeas wrote: > I am not a troll, CIA nor a FBI agent, not a PHD or academic, not > poor, but certainly not rich. I just wanted to offer some thoughts, > experiences on autonomism and my concerns with social democratic > reforms. > > Moreover, I was being rhetorical with my question regarding LBO, > because I get a sense that ideas, thoughts are shot down before > they are sincerely discussed. I expressed an opinion and was > ske ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 09:42:39 PST 2008

7659 [lbo-talk] Russian politics -- rank: 1000

Could one of you Russian readers decode this? <http://plucer.livejournal.com/55710.html> Fleshbot sez it's some sort of fuck-in for Medvedev. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 09:32:23 PST 2008

7660 [lbo-talk] Obama the devious & slippery opportunist -- rank: 1000

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/obamas-hollow- judgment_b_89441.html> Obama's Hollow "Judgment" and Empty Record Joseph C. Wilson Barack Obama argues that he deserves the Democratic nomination and Hillary Clinton doesn't because he possesses superior "judgment," as he calls it, on the key issues we face as a nation. As definitive proof he offers one speech he made in 2002 during a reelection campaign for an Illinois senate seat in the most liberal district ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 08:43:31 PST 2008

7661 [lbo-talk] post-partisanship -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > > >>>> Doug Henwood > > On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > >> CB: O is post-Black , too. He denounced Farakhan. > > It's a ritual all black politicians have to go through. It'd be nice > if Hillary had to denouce Bill O'Reilly. > > Doug > ___________________________________ > CB: True. Or if John McCain had to denounce that rightwing > anti-Catholic bigot who endorsed him ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 08:27:09 PST 2008

7662 [lbo-talk] more on that Goolsbee-Canadian chat -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] VINDICATION FOR THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, which kept pushing reporters to look into this story despite carefully worded denials from the Obama campaign - It's about a heads-up to the Canadian government by Obama's economic adviser about what the senator would be saying about NAFTA - The words are disputed, but now the conversation and topic are not - "AP NewsBreak: Obama adviser says Canadian memo misinterprets his comments on trade," By Nedra Pi ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 05:47:33 PST 2008

7663 [lbo-talk] more on that Goolsbee-Canadian chat -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Politico Playbook] VINDICATION FOR THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN, which kept pushing reporters to look into this story despite carefully worded denials from the Obama campaign - It's about a heads-up to the Canadian government by Obama's economic adviser about what the senator would be saying about NAFTA - The words are disputed, but now the conversation and topic are not - "AP NewsBreak: Obama adviser says Canadian memo misinterprets his comments on trade," By Nedra Pi ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 05:47:33 PST 2008

7664 [lbo-talk] the revolting latest from Will.i.am -- rank: 1000

Sorta like a Gap ad, noly more revolting: <http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QAzE6YBRFuo&feature=related>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 2 18:39:23 PST 2008

7665 [lbo-talk] Nader's typewriter -- rank: 1000

On Mar 2, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: >> It's never been anything else, as far back as I can remember. > > Paint me romantic, but the Nation of the late-70s/early-to-mid-80s > seemed to > have a more radical tone, was much livelier, had more internal > debates, Victor Navasky had a much broader idea of what the mag should be politically than his successor. He made me a contributing editor. I don't think that would have happened today. He published Victor Perlo ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 2 18:15:16 PST 2008