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7816 [lbo-talk] Question on McCain -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Has anything been made in the States of McCain's connections to > Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska? I just read that McCain spent his > 70th birthday on Deripaska's boat. Really? He comes off as pretty anti-Russian - wants Georgia to join NATO, e.g. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 10:09:06 PDT 2008

7817 [lbo-talk] Obama and the thumpers -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] FRANKLIN GRAHAM MEETS WITH OBAMA BEFORE McCAIN David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network: 'When they both met the other day in a roomful of religious leaders in Chicago, The Brody File was told that Franklin Graham and Sen. Barack Obama shook hands afterwards. Earlier we had reported that they hugged. A Franklin Graham spokesman called and said actually it was a handshake, not a hug. My source called it a 'man-hug' but whatever. ... A person who attended the mee ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 07:28:32 PDT 2008

7818 [lbo-talk] McCain should make Iraq the centerpiece of his campaign! -- rank: 1000

[via Mike Allen] A Charles KRAUTHAMMER column, with the WashPost headline 'Make the Election About Iraq': 'The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. ... It is a position so utterly untenable that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq war the central WINNING plank of his campaign.'

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 07:13:51 PDT 2008

7819 [lbo-talk] the problem with Webb -- rank: 1000

[addressed to liberals, but not the only prospective audience] <http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=831e71f6-708f-4833- a1cb-1f8352c8c7bf> Webb of Deception by Richard Just Jim Webb isn't a liberal; he's a reactionary. So why are liberals falling for him? Post Date Friday, June 13, 2008 I am amazed at how many Democrats have fallen for Jim Webb. Suddenly, everywhere you look, people are touting Webb as the perfect running mate for Barack Obama. In recent days, as Webb has seemed ubiqui ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 06:47:09 PDT 2008

7820 [lbo-talk] Gilded Age II: the devolution -- rank: 1000

The Nation - June 30, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/henwood> Our Gilded Age by DOUG HENWOOD It has become a cliché to say that we live in a new Gilded Age. True enough, up to a point. Money, mostly new money, rules politics and culture. Corporations merge into ever larger corporations. You have to go back to before World War I to match today's levels of income and wealth inequality. In some ways, the second Gilded Age is worse than the first. Sure, we live longer now, mo ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 12 12:28:48 PDT 2008

7821 [lbo-talk] odd and interesting,,,, part of life -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > The judge said he didn't think any of the material on his site would > qualify as obscene. > > "Is it prurient? I don't know what to tell you," he said. "I think > it's odd and interesting. It's part of life." > > > <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me- > kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6495164.story>http://www.latimes.com/news/ > printedition/front/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,64 ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 12 11:02:23 PDT 2008

7822 [lbo-talk] how about a floor under gas prices? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > suppose the government were to announce today: from now until > forever, a > gallon of gas will never sell in the united states for less than two > dollars, and a barrel of oil will never sell for less than fifty > dollars, in > 2008 dollars. if the market price falls below that, we will push it up > through taxation and stockpiling. Two points. I doubt $2 gas would change American behavior much. $4, yes. Not $2. And what ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 12 07:47:56 PDT 2008

7823 [lbo-talk] Samantha Power gets her ass kicked -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 12, 2008 MCCAIN SQUAD OUT-TALKS O'S IF only John McCain could use surrogates instead of having to debate Barack Obama in person. The other day in Toronto, McCain's team, his foreign-policy adviser Niall Ferguson and conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, crushed the Obama squad - Samantha Power, who had to step down from his campaign after calling Hillary Clinton "a monster," and Richard Holbrooke, who was Bill Clinton's UN ambassa dor. Before ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 12 06:07:25 PDT 2008

7824 [lbo-talk] traffic news -- rank: 1000

On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > But Rand Corp. transportation expert Martin Wachs thinks it will take > more. Even if fuel hits $5 a gallon, he said, congestion will merely > thin at the margins -- meaning shorter rush hours -- rather than > evaporate. "I think the price at which people will stop driving is > much higher," he said. > > In central London, car traffic has dropped 20% since 2003, when the > city began charging motorists a fee o ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 12:16:46 PDT 2008

7825 [lbo-talk] Brecht Forum event in NYC: Obama and the left (SAII) -- rank: 1000

3rd THURSDAYS AT THE BRECHT FORUM A Series of Monthly Discussions on Hot Button Issues Thursday June 19th 2008 at 7.30pm A PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT? Barack Obama and the Left With DOUG HENWOOD (Left Business Observer), BETSY REED (The Nation), GARY YOUNGE (The Guardian/The Nation), and others to be announced. 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 p ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:49:21 PDT 2008

7826 [lbo-talk] the Obamacons -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=46a816dc-f843-41ec-9fe4- fbeac17bcfca> Mr. Right? The rise of the Obamacons. Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 The New Yorker is hardly the optimal vehicle for reaching the conservative intelligentsia. But, last year, Barack Obama cooperated with a profile for that magazine where he seemed to be speaking directly to the right. Because he paid obeisance to the virtues of stability and continuity, his interlocutor ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:45:36 PDT 2008

7827 [lbo-talk] Webb luvs the Confederacy -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10994.html> Webb's rebel roots: An affinity for Confederacy By: David Mark June 11, 2008 07:29 AM EST Barack Obama s vice presidential vetting team will undoubtedly run across some quirky and potentially troublesome issues as it goes about the business of scouring the backgrounds of possible running mates. But it s unlikely they ll find one so curious as Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb s affinity for the cause of the Confederacy. Webb is no ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:14:16 PDT 2008

7828 [lbo-talk] McCain luvs ABBA -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/john-mccain-abb.html> John McCain: ABBA fan??? June 10, 2008 2:20 PM In all the commotion over Hillary Clinton's long goodbye to the Democratic nomination fight, an odd moment in the Republican race got surprisingly little attention. Presumptive nominee John McCain called a Phoenix radio station last Friday and confessed to a secret passion for ABBA! McCain dropped the ABBA bombshell on the popular Johnjay and Rich Show on Phoenix's KZZP ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 11 06:10:14 PDT 2008

7829 [lbo-talk] Butler is not a classicist -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2008, at 2:03 PM, shag wrote: > damn! i missed that. i would have argued with doug about that. when > i feel > better, i might do that. no wait: doug, it's not ok for me to mean and > spread my brand of toxic hostility all over the list because i'm > intelligent! i realize that sounds flip: but i'm serious. I didn't say that. I said that I don't care if you're occasionally insulting because your contributions are a lot more than insults. I don't think what you've said ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 10 11:11:44 PDT 2008

7830 [lbo-talk] Obama economist an apologist for Wal-Mart -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Don't you attribute the 2000 gini index and poverty rate to the reign > of Clinton(Bill)-Rubin-Brookings economics? The late-90s boom, while good for the working class, was the byproduct of an unsustainable bubble. We're not going to get back to those poverty rates and ginis without something like a social democratic program, and that's not coming from an Obama-Hamilton agenda. Doug

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