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7786 [lbo-talk] Obama on NAFTA -- rank: 1000

[hmm, I thought Max said the Goolsbee story was bullshit - also from The Note] Obama adds a new wrinkle to his personal trade wars (was Austan Goolsbee right?). In an interview, "the presumptive Democratic nominee backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA," Fortune's Nina Easton writes. " 'Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified,' he conceded, after I re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:54:10 PDT 2008

7787 [lbo-talk] money and headscarves -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] "You've already changed the way campaigns are funded because you know that's the only way we can truly change how Washington works. And that's the path we will continue in this general election," Obama said in a video message sent to supporters Thursday. That would be admirable, save for this Obama quote, from November: "If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:51:46 PDT 2008

7788 [lbo-talk] Obama wants Republicans in his cabinet -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] Joe KLEIN in the new Time magazine 'Obama says he wants to hire a Team of Rivals for his Cabinet. He should start by keeping Robert Gates': 'Barack Obama has never been shy about comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln. ... Obama has said he admires Doris Kearns Goodwin's wonderful Lincoln biography, 'Team of Rivals.' 'He talks about it all the time,' says a top aide. He is particularly intrigued by the notion that Lincoln assembled all the Republicans who had run against ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:43:21 PDT 2008

7789 [lbo-talk] Probably the stupidest investment question posted here ever -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:41 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > How can I track the growth, or lack thereof, of a MetLife asset > allocation portfolio > (http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/ > PageGenerator/0,4773,P7751,00.html)? > I'm very new to the world of 403(b)s, owning small pieces of the > companies I'm paid to organize against, etc. > > Also, while I have your attention: I understand that an AAP is > preferable to a straightforward portfolio, if only be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:36:07 PDT 2008

7790 [lbo-talk] Obama's imperial counselors -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > To the degree opinion from below can influence policy, I'd rather > have a > President Obama susceptible to the Democratic liberal base than a > President > McCain having to take into account pressures from his xenophobic > Republican > base. In the same vein, as far as the inner circle of policymakers is > concerned, while I have no particular admiration for Albright, > Christopher, > Perry, and Hamilton as indiv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:10:04 PDT 2008

7791 [lbo-talk] Obama opts out of public financing -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal June 19, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced that he would become the first presidential candidate to forgo public financing of his general election campaign since the system was established three decades ago. Obama's Republican opponent, John McCain, has been much less successful at raising money and the move sets up the likelihood of a big mismatch in money heading into the fall campaign. For more information, see: http:// ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 06:07:45 PDT 2008

7792 [lbo-talk] Obama's imperial counselors -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:21 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Madeleine Albright? > Warren Christopher? > William Perry? > Lee Hamilton? > Oh man, change is coming fast. > I'm so excited to see something so unique happening in my lifetime. > I'm also glad Clinton didn't win, she never would have picked new > fresh > faces like these! Who's the first person who's going to say that O is doing this stuff just to get elected, but that once in office he'll be a bold change agent? D ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 14:35:49 PDT 2008

7793 [lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I really don't know what people are on about with the idea social > constructionists/pomos/etc. are "subverting Marxism." If the working class had been reading Hilferding and Mattick instead of Derrida and Lacan, they'd be a class for itself by now! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 14:31:05 PDT 2008

7794 [lbo-talk] Chuck's Cassirer posts -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I don't think the world's orderliness is something you have to > discover. It's sort of obvious. Obvious to you, formed by a particular social order. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 12:30:50 PDT 2008

7795 [lbo-talk] Wall St CW on politics -- rank: 1000

Tom Gallagher, the Washington guy for Wall Street's favorite economist Ed Hyman, writes in this morning's briefing that "'08 will be the reverse of '80" - and not just in numerological terms. That is, he sees this year's election as representing a swing towards more activist government, just as Reagan's election meant the reverse. (He concedes that the shift began in 1978, with Carter's embrace of dereg.) He cites an NBC/WSJ poll that asked whether government should do more to s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 06:38:48 PDT 2008

7796 [lbo-talk] Obama's imperial counselors -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] OBAMA CAMPAIGN announces 'Senior Working Group on National Security' --Secretary of State Madeleine Albright --Senator David Boren, former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence --Secretary of State Warren Christopher --Greg Craig, former director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning --Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig --Representative Lee Hamilton, former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee --Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder -- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 06:29:00 PDT 2008

7797 [lbo-talk] reminder: NYC Obama event -- rank: 1000

A People's President?: Obama and the Left Thursday, June 19 7:30 pm Ta-Nehisi Coates, Doug Henwood, Jo-Ann Mort, Betsy Reed, Gary Younge & Others TBA The Democratic Party may have unified behind Barack Obama's presidential bid, but the American left has not. Some progressives argue that we should largely silence our concerns about Obama's policy shortcomings, from Israel and Iraq to the economy and healthcare, at least until he gets elected. Others contend that his weakness on these an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 05:04:21 PDT 2008

7798 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter writes... -- rank: 1000

[From: "Ann Coulter" - pretty funny if she really thinks that econ profs are "pinkos"] Dear Fellow Conservative, Do you know which special interest has given more money to the Obama and Clinton campaigns than any other? If you guessed "trial lawyers" -- well, okay, that's too easy. But can you guess which special interest came in second? Labor unions? Nope. The Green Lobby? Nope. AARP? Wrong, again. NEA? Nyet. Give up? Okay, here's the answer: Wall Street. That' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 14:53:59 PDT 2008

7799 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Actually, it was heard last Saturday, but an hour later than usual. > It was on at 11:00 am, rather than 10:00 am. "Technical difficulties." Hmmm. And I got to them hours earlier than usual on Friday, too.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 14:50:41 PDT 2008

7800 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Jun 17, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > Last Saturday, they pre-empted you again with some > lame show. What's with these people? They did? I didn't know about that. The podcast is up, but I haven't updated the web page yet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 14:15:01 PDT 2008