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8026 [lbo-talk] right-wing nuts embrace NYer cover -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > How is it you don't point to all the > comparable things about Clinton and McCain ? No one ever claimed either was "transformative." Or "transformational." Or whatever.

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 12:34:08 PDT 2008

8027 [lbo-talk] right-wing nuts embrace NYer cover -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Ah, _right_ on time with a typical Barry hater's twist and > prevarication, little white lying ! He's in the _center_. Your hate > is causing you to mixup left , right and center. Charles, I'm going to assume you're just having fun with this "hater" thing. Because if you're serious, you've taken leave of your senses. Like I said many months ago, Obama's just another Democrat with a sleazy real estate guy in his past. ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 11:32:59 PDT 2008

8028 [lbo-talk] bogus questions -- rank: 1000

[just posted to the AAPOR list] From: Paul J Lavrakas PhD <pjlavrak at OPTONLINE.NET> Date: July 15, 2008 1:58:48 PM EDT To: AAPORNET at ASU.EDU Subject: Re: Name recognition Dan Merkle and I tested a bogus candidate ("George Streski") in a Cook County IL pre-primary election poll in 1989 and got 20% name recognition. The following is the entry for "Bogus Questions" that will appear in the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods which is due to be published in a few m ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 11:20:10 PDT 2008

8029 [lbo-talk] right-wing nuts embrace NYer cover -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Naw, the haters are out there waiting to twist anything fancy Barry > does into a move to the "right". You're right. There's something contemptibly patronizing in these critiques of BHO's alleged "move to the right." He was already there!

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 11:07:38 PDT 2008

8030 [lbo-talk] right-wing nuts embrace NYer cover -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] And yet: Tapper takes note of the glee with which Obama critics embraced and distributed the cover. "No single illustration could more perfectly convey the legitimate -- I repeat, legitimate -- fears and concerns that so many of us have about the prospects of an Obama Presidency," writes a blogger at StoptheACLU.com. Writes a conservative commentator at JosCafe.com: "Evidently the artist did the drawing to sum up all 'conservative' fears of this man. The arti ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 06:26:52 PDT 2008

8031 [lbo-talk] Obama erases former critique of surge -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - July 15, 2008 <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ 2008/07/14/2008-07-14_barack_obama_purges_web_site_critique_of.html> Barack Obama purges Web site critique of surge in Iraq BY JAMES GORDON MEEK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Barack Obama's campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq, the Daily News has learned. The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue W ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 06:20:46 PDT 2008

8032 [lbo-talk] Iraq policy: McCain not so unpopular, actualy -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story?id=5370538&page=1> McCain Tops Obama in Commander-in-Chief Test; Stays Competitive on Iraq Poll Finds 72 Percent of Americans Say McCain Would be Good Commander- in-Chief ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER July 14, 2008 Americans divide evenly between Barack Obama and John McCain's approaches to the war in Iraq, and rate McCain much more highly on his abilities as commander-in-chief key reasons the unpopular war isn't working more to Obama's ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 15 06:13:45 PDT 2008

8033 [lbo-talk] LaRouche: the financial system is dead -- rank: 1000

LYNDON LAROUCHE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE LaRouche: The Financial System Is Dead and Cannot Be Saved 14 Jul 2008 July 13, 2008 (LPAC)--With the U.S. and British financial press full of wild speculation about how the Bush Administration is going to intervene Monday morning, to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lyndon LaRouche today issued a sharp, preemptive warning: "The financial system is already dead. It cannot be saved.'' LaRouche expanded: "If any of the reports of a plan ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 18:32:02 PDT 2008

8034 [lbo-talk] glen ford should receive a weekly sunday hummer -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > There must be > other things to talk about than the election. For sure. Be my guest.

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 18:27:24 PDT 2008

8035 [lbo-talk] Jesus Against Empire: Wright and Obama Reconsidered -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I'm hoping Obama does turn out to be some kind of incredibly > revolutionary, progressive leader -- just so to find out if the > sound of Dwayne's and Doug's heads exploding is audible on the > other side of the world. Ha. Funny. Ain't gonna happen.

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 13:35:28 PDT 2008

8036 [lbo-talk] Bush admin moves closer to nationalization -- rank: 1000

[from Merrill Lynch chief economist David Rosenberg] Government moving to interventionist mode The Fed's were at work all weekend to ensure calm markets at the open on Monday morning after last week's sell-off in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock. According to the Wall Street Journal, they even went as far as contacting large investors to ensure they show up for today's $3 billion auction of short-term Freddie Mac debt. Though many believe the current administration has shown reluctance to ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 13:20:30 PDT 2008

8037 [lbo-talk] Avnery: no attack on Iran -- rank: 1000

[I'm beginning to think this is right.] <http://counterpunch.org/avnery07142008.html> The Last Adventure Will Israel and / or the U.S. Attack Iran? By URI AVNERY IF YOU want to understand the policy of a country, look at the map - as Napoleon recommended. Anyone who wants to guess whether Israel and/or the United States are going to attack Iran should look at the map of the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Through this narrow waterway, only 34 km wide, pass the s ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 12:54:22 PDT 2008

8038 [lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference -- Aug 15-18 -- REGISTER NOW! ORGANIZE A PANEL! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Michael Perelman wrote: > As of 2002, the Fed employed an estimated 495 full-time staff > economists. Well-paid ones, too. With a lubricated chute potentially leading to an even better-paid job on Wall Street. And they often do good, interesting work. But not radical. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 09:20:50 PDT 2008

8039 [lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference -- Aug 15-18 -- REGISTER NOW! ORGANIZE A PANEL! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:42 AM, sawicky at verizon.net wrote: > I think, perhaps self-servingly, that the contribution of EPI and > CEPR to > the policy debate is significant. For sure. I admire both organizations. They employ, what, maybe 15 economists together? It's not a field that you could urge someone to go into without feeling a little guilty. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 14 08:56:08 PDT 2008

8040 [lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference -- Aug 15-18 -- REGISTER NOW!ORGANIZE A PANEL! -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug says: > >> Who studies that stuff without wanting to go into academia or >> finance? > > How about think tanks (eg RAND) and government (eg BLS, FRB, > etc.) ...? > > I think there's more jobs than you think there are. Sure, but mostly non-radical. RAND and the Fed are quasi-academic. I think there are some lefties at the BLS, but how many people spend their adolescence dreaming of working on the JOLTS pr ...

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