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8656 [lbo-talk] Who is more electable? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 1:21 PM, g.a.s. wrote: > http://julia.hanovercomputer.com/toy/nov01/catalog/ATD_12_2001/ > pict0083.jpg I can't say I cherish these contributions. What's your point? Doug

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8657 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > What's the analysis and name for what supports Clinton ? Is it > different than what supports Obama ? Clinton obviously doesn't have the hordes of screaming fans. There's more libido in Obama's support, for sure. She's gotten lots of money from the big bourgeoisie. So's he - e.g., Paul Tudor Jones & his Greenwich pals - but she hasn't gotten the smaller contribs he has. When the big bourgeoisie gives, they expect some returns on t ...

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8658 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:39 AM, shag wrote: > i'll try again: I don't get why the insistence that young people > are "poor" > or "poorer" in a way that connects them to the kind of "poor" or > "poorer" > we usually mean. Yeah. If people have low incomes just because they're young, they're not poor in the same sense as a 40-y.o. with a poverty-level income is. The interesting regression would be income relative to the average for the age group ...

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8659 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > Now... what's "fan club" supposed to mean in this statement? Youth > vote = > fan club = what? not sensible? not as significant? It means that there's no organization, no institution, that can hold "their" candidate accountable. It's not like a party or a union (which could, in theory if not in practice) or even a trade association. It's just a bunch of people brought together by the grooviness of it all. Do ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 8 04:32:53 PST 2008

8660 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over McCain -- rank: 1000

On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:51 AM, Catherine Driscoll wrote: > Then again, I also think O'Reilly is hilarious. He can be. The guy is a total asshole but he's a genius at what he does. Doug

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8661 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > shag wrote: > >> What do generational differences in income have to do with "poor". >> Yes, I >> know, you used "poorer" -- but this is a flourish of rhetorical >> horse shittery. > > In the U.S., age and income are positively correlated. In the 2000 > census, the correlation coefficient is like .14 or so. Relatively > large, considered the underlying differences in other demographic ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 20:26:14 PST 2008

8662 [lbo-talk] See you in my social media living room -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:35 PM, 3.3.3. wrote: > "Commenting" on everything is probably the most dissappointing and > outrageous waste of time i've noticed this year. It's the madness > of IRC > frozen in time. Why are people leaving 253 comments on a 1 to 5 > sentence > political blog post? The Note has 4000 comments when I read it at around 9 or 9:30 - minutes after it's posted usually. Who reads 'em? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 19:31:53 PST 2008

8663 [lbo-talk] See you in my social media living room -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > Twitter: The New Place for Armchair Quarterbacks during the Super Bowl I'm feeling soooo old, because Twitter seems really stupid to me.

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 15:56:54 PST 2008

8664 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter loses it over McCain -- rank: 1000

I really doubt McCain has much of a chance. All that terrorism and war shit has lost much of its resonance. Just ask Rudy Giuliani. McCain is winning the Rep nomination because he's perceived as the most "liberal" of the bunch. He's not liberal, of course, but compared to Ann Coulter, he is. But as former Bush adviser Matthew Dowd said, if you're criticizing us but doing so using our language, we're still winning. The fact that the GOP is worrying about electability, just like t ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 12:06:29 PST 2008

8665 [lbo-talk] "yes we can" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > but he crushed the Nicaraguan >> revolution and did more >> than a little to bring down the USSR. > > Gorbachev does not agree with you. :) Yeah, Gorby helped destroy the USSR, didn't he? But the Soviet elite realized it couldn't match the U.S. arms buildup, no?

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8666 [lbo-talk] last minute endorsement -- rank: 1000

"Tully," our resident libertarian, asked: > Should I assume that 911 inside job questioning is also relegated > to tinfoil hat status on this list? Yes. Doug

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8667 [lbo-talk] "yes we can" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:47 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Correction - the transformation of society under > Reagan administration. I think the real agents of > that change were outside the realm of politics - the > mobilized corporate interests, the wealthy, mobilized > evangelicals etc. Reagan was merely what his nickname > "great communicator" suggests - a spokesperson for > those mobilized reactionary social forces. He did not > cause the radical changes in ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 10:01:04 PST 2008

8668 [lbo-talk] Frum: conservative era finito -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > we are still in the throes of Reaganism Interesting piece in the FT - by David Frum, no less - on how we may be exiting those throes. Doug ---- Financial Times - February 7, 2008 Beware the coming Democratic sea-change By David Frum The conservative ascendancy in American politics is coming to an end. For three decades, the right has dominated, with the Republicans winning five of the seven presidential elections since 1980. Conservative ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 09:38:33 PST 2008

8669 [lbo-talk] "yes we can" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> People compare BHO with Reagan. But with Reagan, there was some >> actual >> political substance behind his slick exterior. You knew pretty >> much what he >> stood for, and what he was likely to do. It was a coherent >> ideology presented >> at a historically propitious moment. > > Yes and no. Reagan's ideology was certainly clear -- it was the ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 7 09:08:50 PST 2008

8670 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > I haven't checked the detailed stats on > this, but if the percentage of young voters increased even a tiny > little, that's very important. Actually I don't think it has. But I'll check with the AAPORites - after I pay this year's dues. Doug

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