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9106 [lbo-talk] Obama's "pivot" -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] The Chicago Sun-Times' Lynn Sweet quotes an "Obama adviser" saying that Wright has become a "huge distraction. At a time when Obama is trying to appeal to blue-collar and working-class voters, Jeremiah Wright is dragging this campaign into a conversation about race . . . and that's not what white voters want to hear." "Nobody even wants to talk about it. It's a disaster," one Obama campaign source tells the New York Daily News' Michael Saul, who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 30 07:56:14 PDT 2008

9107 [lbo-talk] a new explanation of Obama's greatness -- rank: 1000

[via Wonkette] <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/26/83118/7371/654/503796> April 26, 2008 at 07:48:02 AM PDT People have always regarded comets as "messengers of the gods". The meaning ascribed to a comet's appearance is comprised of many factors, including the mythological story of the constellation that the comet's path highlights. This past autumn (2007), a remarkable comet, Holmes, appeared in the nightime sky, as a huge blue sphere (larger than the diameter o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 14:37:28 PDT 2008

9108 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Andy F wrote: > So's somebody expressing outrage at ignorance of the details of > Lionel Ritchie. I'll express outrage at the existence of LR. Man, did he suck. How'd he get so rich?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:53:37 PDT 2008

9109 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I do not really understand what is so special > about being immersed in popular culture. I'm not immersed in it, but I do know who Miley Cyrus is.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 13:04:28 PDT 2008

9110 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > You really take pride in not knowing such stuff? Remember, Carrol hasn't heard a U.S. president's voice or seen him in TV in like forever. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 11:57:49 PDT 2008

9111 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > You really measure someone's worth as a human being by their knowledge > of social trivia? Knowledge of prominent figures of popular culture is a measure of attachment to or estrangement from human society. People who presume to represent the interest of the masses, yet know nothing of what the masses actually think about, are a little odd, wouldn't you concede? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 11:57:04 PDT 2008

9112 [lbo-talk] outrage! -- rank: 1000

Politico.com Breaking News: --------------------------------------------------------- Obama says he is outraged by appalling comments made by Rev. Wright. For more information... http://www.politico.com

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 11:54:21 PDT 2008

9113 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Yeah, a lot of discourse gives the impression that the > people doing the discoursing think the ruling classes > are composed exclusively of diabolical egomaniacal > monsters imposing their will on the exclusively > angelic and right-thinking other layers of society. "We can't tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about." - maxim of the public opinion industry

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 11:52:52 PDT 2008

9114 [lbo-talk] Wright at NPC: a Clinton set-up? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News April 29, 2008 <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/louis/index.html> Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama or a press trick? Errol Lewis The Rev. Jeremiah Wright couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried. And you have to wonder if that's just what one friend of Wright wanted. Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 09:35:56 PDT 2008

9115 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Kleino-talk Digest, Vol 486, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug writes: > >> This was not the best use of a chance to interview Alan Greenspan. > > When is he going to be on your show? His schedule was too full. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 08:25:19 PDT 2008

9116 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Klein -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > This is essentially the problem with people like Naomi > Klein: even when they bother to address capitalism as > a specific social form, it is always conceived as a > conspiracy of a devious ruling class, rather than an > objective social structure with its own peculiar logic > that we all reproduce daily. Related to my point about how blaming "extraeconomic coercion," as Patrick put it, ducks the hard question of h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 06:28:42 PDT 2008

9117 [lbo-talk] DN link -- rank: 1000

Sorry, forgot the link on the AG/DN! interview: <http://www.democracynow.org/2007/9/24/alan_greenspan_vs_naomi_klein_on>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 29 05:32:08 PDT 2008

9118 [lbo-talk] Doug's case against Naomi Kleino-talk Digest, Vol 486, Issue 3 -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Alex Hogan wrote: > I remember when she was on Democracy Now debating Greenspan is she > got creamed as she tossed some blood curdling rhetoric at the man > (this was Democracy Now after all, you need to mention torutre or > death squads at least once in a segment),blaming him personally for > Pinochet and shock theapy in Eastern Europe -- neither in which he > was involved. > > She could have nailed him over a million more mundane issues like ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 05:31:31 PDT 2008

9119 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Andy F wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Bill Bartlett > <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote: >> I've never heard of her. For what is she celebrated? > > Being a friend of Paris Hilton. > > And I'm not even kidding. Don't forget daughter of Lionel Richie, which is where her money comes from. Folks here really don't keep up with pop culture much, do they? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 29 05:12:48 PDT 2008

9120 [lbo-talk] Nicole Richie endorses Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usmagazine.com/nicole-richie-supporting-barack-obama> Nicole Richie Supporting Obama MONDAY APRIL 28, 2008 Barack Obama has landed two new celeb supporters: Nicole Richie and beau Joel Madden. Along with newborn daughter Harlow, the two hit this weekend's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Palm Springs, where Madden sported an Obama T-shirt. Asked if they're backing the Democrat, he told Usmagazine.com. "Yes, we are." "He is a good man, he is cool, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 28 15:57:49 PDT 2008