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8521 [lbo-talk] banal press release of the month -- rank: 1000

Subject heading announcing a conference call with Anna Burger at 1 PM: "Change to Win Says Yes We Can."

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Date:	Thu Feb 21 08:39:25 PST 2008

8522 [lbo-talk] BHO's foreign policy team -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - February 21, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/article/71580> Obama's Brain Trust Taking Shape Foreign Policy Aides in Democratic Mainstream By ELI LAKE Staff Reporter of the Sun WASHINGTON When it comes to foreign affairs, Senator Obama's inner circle of advisers includes a Swahili-speaking Air Force general he met on a trip to Africa; a 30-year-old speechwriter who helped draft the final report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and President Clinton's first national sec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:38:36 PST 2008

8523 [lbo-talk] Hillary's broke -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] The latest FEC numbers provide fresh reasons for Clinton to despair. "Hillary Clinton ended January with $7.6 million in debt -- not including the $5 million personal loan she gave to her campaign," Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel and Jeanne Cummings report. "In contrast, Democratic rival Barack Obama's campaign's finances continued to be robust. He reported raising nearly $37 million and spending nearly $31 million. His cash balance was $25 million, of which rou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:33:28 PST 2008

8524 [lbo-talk] Rove: Obama is a far leftist -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - February 21, 2008 <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120355939956381797.html> Obama's New Vulnerability By KARL ROVE February 21, 2008; Page A17 In campaigns, there are sometimes moments when candidates shift ground, causing the race to change dramatically. Tuesday night was one of those moments. Hammered for the 10th contest in a row, Hillary Clinton toughened her attacks on Barack Obama, saying he was unready to be commander in chief and unable to back his inspiri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:32:00 PST 2008

8525 [lbo-talk] is the economy crashing? -- rank: 1000

Thursday, February 21 7:30 pm 3rd THURSDAYS The Big Bust Is the Economy About to Crash? Doug Henwood, Lewis Lapham, Nomi Prins & Noah Rosenblatt with Musical Entertainment by Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio "The United States has developed a new weapon that destroys people but leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market." Jay Leno With the markets gyrating wildly, house prices in freefall, and oil at nearly $100 a barrel, the US economy looks to be heading towards th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:29:28 PST 2008

8526 [lbo-talk] Obama wins applause for blowing his nose -- rank: 1000

<http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/ even_blowing_his_nose_obama_ge.html> Even blowing his nose, Obama gets applause by John McCormick DALLAS It's probably safe to say that you have arrived as a politician when your audience applauds when you blow your nose. Yes, just a day before a debate in Texas, Sen. Barack Obama has a head cold. And about a half-hour into a speech here, the Illinois Democrat announced that he had to take a quick break. "Gotta blow m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:26:17 PST 2008

8527 [lbo-talk] On daydreams -- rank: 1000

On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:53 AM, Cdsruiz at aol.com wrote: > I am only an occasional passer by in this list due to lack of time to > comment but I couldn't help to do so on this one: > 1-May be you and Carrol should have stayed on that original list > since both > of you are rather pugnacious posters with very little original > material to > contribute. > 2- Your post ,Huato, is unbelievably self-referential and disingenuous > because I do remember from other lists that y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 04:50:18 PST 2008

8528 [lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I argued that this difference is > caused, for the most part, by individual life choices > rather than structural systemic factors Financial Times - February 16, 2008 Poverty mars formation of infant brains By Clive Cookson in Boston Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain, the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston heard on Friday. Neuroscientists said many children growing up in very poor fam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 20 15:00:45 PST 2008

8529 [lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Doug wrote: > >> I read once that Andrew Hacker asks his white students at Queens >> College how much compensation they'd ask for for having been born >> black. The average is around $1 million. > > That would add up to $39 trillion, about three times the U.S. annual > GDP -- a good chunk of current U.S. national wealth. Indeed. The Fed publishes, in its flow of funds accounts, an estimate of total financial asse ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 14:46:57 PST 2008

8530 [lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Then God asks you to state an amount of social power that you'd want > to have as an honest compensation for the possible disadvantage of > being born Black vis-a-vis being the median American (i.e. white) > today. I read once that Andrew Hacker asks his white students at Queens College how much compensation they'd ask for for having been born black. The average is around $1 million. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 20 13:09:37 PST 2008

8531 [lbo-talk] Guy tried what Ehrenreich did in Nickel & Dimed, finds it's no problem, doesn't know what big deal is -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2008, at 3:30 PM, jrdavis wrote: > Thats over 50k a year which does not put one under the poverty > level for one. No, it's almost 5 times the poverty line for a single person: <http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032007/pov/new35_000.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 13:00:18 PST 2008

8532 [lbo-talk] the nightmare scenario -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 19, 2008 <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4d19518c- df0d-11dc-91d4-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=236ce648-33fa-11da- adae-00000e2511c8,print=yes.html> America s economy risks mother of all meltdowns By Martin Wolf I would tell audiences that we were facing not a bubble but a froth lots of small, local bubbles that never grew to a scale that could threaten the health of the overall economy. Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence. That used to be Mr Greenspan s view of the US ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 11:07:35 PST 2008

8533 [lbo-talk] Obama & the white guys -- rank: 1000

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > What in the world does Rove know? Demographics of voting, message targeting, etc. Why do many people find it hard to believe that right-wingers can be smart? Whenever I say that Fox is more interesting to watch, and not just for the perverse politics, than CNN, people look at me like I'm crazy. I'd rather listen to Rove - and Frank Luntz and Brit Hume - than the tedious wankers on CNN. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 10:53:38 PST 2008

8534 [lbo-talk] Afrodite Superstar -- rank: 1000

<http://www.babeland.com/sexinfo/features/afrodite-superstar-interview/> Home » Sex Information » Features » Behind the Scenes with Afrodite Superstar Behind the Scenes with Afrodite Superstar An interview with the film s director, Abiola Abrams By Jamye Waxman Afrodite Superstar is an AVN award-winning film produced by Venus Hottentot, a pseudonym for Abiola Abrams, who chose to reveal her real to Babeland during our interview. Executive-produced by legendary feminist filmmaker Candid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 20 10:14:01 PST 2008

8535 [lbo-talk] Hillary works the night shift -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] And while we're straining credulity . . . Clinton's new ad extends her appeal to the working class: "She's worked the night shift, too," the voice-over says. The backup for that claim? They don't roll out cots for senators for daytime naps. (And we're pretty sure she pulled all-nighters at Wellesley, too.) It turns out that -- actually, technically -- Clinton never worked the "night shift," her campaign concedes. "As the image on the screen makes pr ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 20 07:58:01 PST 2008