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1351 [lbo-talk] Nader, et al -- rank: 472

Jim S. wrote: >I guess I chose C. > > Others? > >> The choices for socialists are now either a) to merely observe political >> life or abandon politics altogether for other pursuits, b) adapt to the >> liberal parties and institutions which today form the only opposition to >> the >> conservative ones and become leading figures ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Aug 8 10:08:27 PDT 2007

1352 [lbo-talk] Nader not the only one to say Uncle Tom -- rank: 472

Before nineteenth century Britons heard the phrase Uncle Tom to describe a collaborator with the oppressor, there was another name for it. In Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South there is a non-racial version of the outsider who sucks up to power, in the character who turns from mill ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 6 14:36:24 PST 2008

1353 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader -- rank: 472

Nathan Newman addresses Chuck Munson: > I went to enough of those meetings myself-- in > fact, we met at one of them, and they were > completely self-indulgent exercises of people > representing no one but themselves claiming the > same political legitimacy as those elected by > thousands or even millions of members Wait ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Wed Aug 25 17:19:01 PDT 2004

1354 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 472

A steady-state capitalist economy is pretty hard to imagine, and Aarons wasn't about to imagine anything beyond capitalism. So he was right from his point of view. If I remember right, he was also responding to a Malthusian questioner, who wanted no economic growth, and Aarons was simply doing ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sun Jan 23 19:12:24 PST 2000

1355 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Nader numbers -- rank: 472

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12338

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Feb 25 08:19:32 PST 2004

1356 election demographics -- rank: 472

Carrol, >> Let's assume the worst - that Nader's candidacy threw the election to Bush. > >Why is that ... I don't see it as the worst at all. >> Nader is right about one thing - Gore only has himself to blame for his >> defeat. To focus on Nader and claim that he is THE reason Gore lost (if ... s accept the credit. The left defeated Gore. >Hurrah! Whatever Nader wants to claim, I think quite a few of his ... it. I would have preferred a 5-7% vote for Nader, sizeable enough to throw a bunch of states to Bush ... I think this really would have been a scenario where Nader "threw" the election to Bush, but also a scenario ...

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Author:	brettk at unicacorp.com
Date:	Thu Nov 9 07:24:44 PST 2000

1357 [lbo-talk] State GOP Chair: I Want Nader In the Race To Steal Kerry Votes -- rank: 472

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Mon Apr 12 15:37:14 PDT 2004

1358 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: Michael Pugliese wrote: >Alex Cockburn Speaking of whom, am I wrong to read this is a backdoor endorsement of terrorism, without the nerve to say so directly? I took it as a Leninist slap at anarchist folly. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Mon Oct 11 16:14:46 PDT 2004

1359 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 472

On Oct 10, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > The fears most commonly cited by some of my friends on the US left are > that > the two would be "swallowed up" by the DP machine or that it would > somehow > be a betrayal of their principles to try to ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Sun Oct 10 08:02:10 PDT 2004

1360 [lbo-talk] Green Party on Nader -- rank: 472

In a message dated 12/24/2003 7:27:06 AM Mountain Standard Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes: > Six candidates have declared their intention to > compete in the Green Party Presidential Primaries: > Peter Camejo (CA), David Cobb (CA), Paul Glover (NY), > Kent Mesplay (NY), Carol Miller (NM), and Lorna > Salzman ...

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Author:	Stannard67 at aol.com
Date:	Wed Dec 24 07:57:52 PST 2003

1361 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Nader numbers -- rank: 472

Munson: > Mickey Z. published an article yesterday that has > been the best so far in sinking the Anbody But > Bush ship "Mickey Z.," yeh, there's a guy I take really seriously . . . (sigh). > If one looks at all the reasons why the ABB crowd > raises as reasons to defeat Bush, one ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Wed Feb 25 13:31:47 PST 2004

1362 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali endorses Kerry, denounces Nader -- rank: 472

On Oct 29, 2004, at 6:35 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You can't turn it on after election day just like that -- a social > movement is not like an electrical appliance that has an on-and-off > switch. True enough--which is why those who found the election too distasteful ...

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Author:	John Adams
Date:	Fri Oct 29 15:50:58 PDT 2004

1363 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 472

At 5:56 PM -0400 10/8/04, Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm not necessarily for making qualifying for ballots harder-- although the >California governors race in the recall election was hardly an >advertisement for easy qualification. But if any party can't make the >pretty basic threshholds required under most ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Tue Aug 10 15:40:44 PDT 2004

1364 [lbo-talk] Left Behind: Nader numbers -- rank: 472

John Lacny wrote: >Are you some kind of fucking idiot? We can disagree without getting so harshly personal. Love, Listmom

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 25 13:39:29 PST 2004

1365 Nader attack: your posting -- rank: 472

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >On that point definitely, but Aarons was totally off base and clueless on >the issue of the steady state economy and was flat out lying when he stated >that a steady state economy would cut US living standards in half. Hell, a >steady state economy is really ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:54:24 PST 2000