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7756 [lbo-talk] Butler -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I doubt very much that most males have given this > possibility the remotest thought, conscious _or_ "unconscious." Can > you > produce any evidence. It would have to be powerful to get me to even > give much thought to such an absurdity. Here's a start, from Raz Yosef's "Homoland" (GLQ, 2000:3). More later! > In a dazzling analysis of the Wolf Man case, Lee Edelman argues > that the anus > evokes castra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 13:46:49 PDT 2008

7757 [lbo-talk] race & the U.S. election -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Mike Ballard wrote: > Let's not forget the "Bradley effect". But this year Obama did better than a lot of polls projected suggesting a reverse-Bradley effect. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 22 13:06:38 PDT 2008

7758 [lbo-talk] Brooks on Fast Eddie Obama -- rank: 1000

New York TImes - June 20, 2008 The Two Obamas By DAVID BROOKS God, Republicans are saps. They think that they're running against some academic liberal who wouldn't wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn't proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they're running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson. But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split- persona ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 13:05:26 PDT 2008

7759 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Isn't that last line making Younge even more right than he knew? That > would seem to be evidence of greater enthusiasm across the board, > not just > among blacks. There's great enthusiasm among Democrats. Remember, Hillary came within a hair of Obama's pop vote total. And she got about 40% of the youth vote. It's far from being just an Obama story - it's an anti- Bush story. And don't forget how much better a generic Dem poll ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 08:04:08 PDT 2008

7760 [lbo-talk] me @ Brecht Obama event -- rank: 1000

On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I mean, if you really think disappointment will help the left, then > you're > agreeing that the election of Obama will contribute towards building a > movement, no? Yeah, but as a second-order phenomenon. Gary Younge didn't like my insistence on delusion leading to disappointment. Who am I, cynical white aging intellectual, to question the perceptions of the aroused young and black masses? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 07:53:39 PDT 2008

7761 [lbo-talk] black primary turnout -- rank: 1000

At last Thursday's Obama panel at the Brecht Forum, Gary Younge took my wet-blanketism to task for devaluing the enthusiasm of Obama's supporters. He cited a marked increase in black turnout as evidence. Apparently that's not exactly right: <http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5202366&page=1> "Turnout was up across the board, and blacks, like other Democrats, increased their participation. But blacks did not vote in disproportionately greater numbers: They acc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 06:52:05 PDT 2008

7762 [lbo-talk] race & the U.S. election -- rank: 1000

Obama's Candidacy Underscores Crosscurrents of Race and Politics Racial attitudes among white Americans show little if any net effect on Barack Obama's candidacy for president, an ABC News analysis finds, because negative views toward Obama among the least racially sensitive whites largely are balanced by pro-Obama sentiment among those with the highest racial sensitivities. Three in 10 whites express less racially sensitive views, such as having some feelings of prejudice or believing that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 22 06:23:45 PDT 2008

7763 [lbo-talk] California records biggest jump in unemployment ever -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Economists cautioned that California's exploding unemployment rate > may have > been a statistical fluke that exaggerated the extent of the damage > to the > state's labor market. > > The labor force showed unusual growth during the month, possibly > because of > large numbers of graduates leaving school and looking for work, > they said. > That could have skewed the jobless rate because the new workers > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 17:28:36 PDT 2008

7764 [lbo-talk] mac xp bsd help -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > If you're not fond of Safari > (or you find troubleshooting it to be too much of a hassle), you can > run Firefox on OS X You can. Firefox 3 now matches the latest Safari in speed; Firefox 2 was much slower. Safari still does better than Firefox (both latest versions) on Acid Test 3, though. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 17:25:57 PDT 2008

7765 [lbo-talk] Barney Frank hates Sam Nunn -- rank: 1000

http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com/2008/06/barney-frank- definite-no-to-nunn.html Friday, June 20, 2008 Barney Frank: A Definite No To Nunn By Stuart Rothenberg Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told the Rothenberg Political Report Friday that he "would have a hard time voting for the [Democratic] ticket" if Sen. Barack Obama picks former United States Sen. Sam Nunn as his vice-presidential running-mate. Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 08:10:29 PDT 2008

7766 [lbo-talk] exposeobama.com -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2008, at 7:14 PM, shag wrote: > Over at the FoRK list (geared toward tech/geeks), where a lot of > debates > over religion take place, one of the subscribers inclined toward > atheism > iirc forwarded some conservative claptrap about obama, his > background, etc. > it's from human events. man, these folks are obsessed! > > Subject: Was Barack Obama A Muslim? From: > HumanEvents at HumanEventsOnline.com No kidding. I get those Human Events emails (which is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 07:36:15 PDT 2008

7767 [lbo-talk] Soros on the "superbubble" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 21, 2008 Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a 'Superbubble' By GREG IP He has cried wolf many times, but this time George Soros says the beast is really upon us. Mr. Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, is best-known as a speculator, philanthropist and political activist. He made a fortune by doing things such as betting against Britain's currency in 1992 and Thailand's in 1997. A Hungarian refugee, he has spent millions to promote democracy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 10:51:33 PDT 2008

7768 [lbo-talk] SEIU squares off against AFSCME in Arizona -- rank: 1000

On Jun 21, 2008, at 1:37 AM, Steven L. Robinson quoted: > The Service Employees International Union is pushing to displace > American > Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which has > represented > state workers for years. Which is not raiding, right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 21 07:21:36 PDT 2008

7769 [lbo-talk] exposeobama.com -- rank: 1000

The NYT has an article on the Republican 527s, or their absence, that focuses on the guy behind ExposeObama.com. He was part of the team that brought us Willie Horton. This time, he can't raise any money - yet. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/21/us/politics/21ads.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 07:52:37 PDT 2008

7770 [lbo-talk] exposeobama.com -- rank: 1000

On Jun 20, 2008, at 7:17 PM, shag wrote: > ok. help me out here. at the web site, exposeobama.com, i see a > masthead > image which appears to contain a picture of obama splashing in the > ocean. i > get that they're trying to associate him with evil liberals and "bad > negroes" like sharpton, but what on earth is wrong with swimming > trunks and > ocean waves? > > http://www.exposeobama.com/obamamast9.gif He looks pretty good in swimming trunks, not flabb ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 21 07:38:07 PDT 2008