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1486 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader -- rank: 472

Nathan wrote: >Yes, it's convenient that the ultraleft can dismiss the AFL-CIO, the >NAACP, the Sierra Club, the Human Rights Campaign, and every other >major mass organization out there as "not the movement." Since I >can point you to multiples of their meetings where defeating Bush >and the rightwing ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Aug 25 13:30:57 PDT 2004

1487 [lbo-talk] Nader inching up in the Polls -- rank: 472

How many state ballots is he on? Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Wed Mar 17 06:19:52 PST 2004

1488 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader -- rank: 472

Lance Murdoch wrote: >The Sierra Club and the Human Rights Campaign? Aren't they a bunch >of homosexuals >and tree-huggers? Asshole. What are your politics, anyway? Some kind of crude "left" Archie Bunkerism? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 25 13:28:56 PDT 2004

1489 [lbo-talk] Why Liberals Lose Elections -- rank: 472

... that I am Japanese, and one Harry Levine compared Ralph Nader to a > suicide bomber, knowing that Nader is an Arab American: I thought that that "day that ... infamy" comment didn't make much sense, either. What does Nader have to do with Pearl Harbor? Neither does the Nader/suicide bomber comparison, unless Levine meant to suggest that he hoped that Nader would destroy himself together with whatever other mischief he might ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Apr 1 07:09:11 PST 2004

1490 can Ralph Nader save capitalism? ( was Re: Fast Track Passage) -- rank: 472

----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Beck" <rayrena at realtime.net> > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > >But you were being ironic about the barricades, right? > > Yes, I was. Maybe my face was a little too straight. Judging > from the article this comes from, "adaptable capitalism" is > capital circa 1967 or 1934 or 1871, or ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Tue Aug 6 15:31:03 PDT 2002

1491 [lbo-talk] Nader, et al -- rank: 472

On 8/7/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > > but what do we make of the difference between dem behavior in the > > senate and > > dem behavior in the house? > > The Senate is a structurally reactionary body, by design ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Tue Aug 7 09:10:34 PDT 2007

1492 [lbo-talk] Nader inching up in the Polls -- rank: 472

A New York Times/CBS News Poll shows Ralph at 7%. Read the poll here: > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/politics/campaign/16POLL.html.<

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Author:	mitchelcohen at mindspring.com
Date:	Wed Mar 17 01:23:41 PST 2004

1493 nader -- rank: 472

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 JCWisc at aol.com wrote: > And speaking of the Greens, what's with all these third parties? There's the > Green Party, also the New Party and the Labor Party, and in New York state, > the Working Families Party... The US political system is fundamentally hostile ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Tue Aug 6 21:45:19 PDT 2002

1494 nader -- rank: 472

At 9:45 PM -0700 6/8/02, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >The US political system is fundamentally hostile to second parties. The >first-past-the-post system, which only the UK continues to use, ensures >that you get monopolies -- the 51% rule, the 49% get turned off from >politics, etc ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Wed Aug 7 16:52:52 PDT 2002

1495 [lbo-talk] Nader, et al -- rank: 472

On 7 Aug, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:10 AM, ravi wrote: >> On 7 Aug, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >>> On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: >>> >>>> There has never been an attempt >>>> in Congress ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Tue Aug 7 20:55:56 PDT 2007

1496 [lbo-talk] Americas Leftists, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader -- rank: 472

At 08:21 PM 7/13/2004, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >John Thornton wrote: >>Can you acknowledge my position on Moore as somewhere between hating >>and worshipping him? > >That's actually my position, as I have spelled out many times, which >doesn't seem to satisfy those who complain of any criticism ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Tue Jul 13 17:44:38 PDT 2004

1497 [lbo-talk] Nader the Condorcet Winner in 2000 -- rank: 472

That's all very nice, but we don't have a voting system like that in the U.S. So, we've either got to change the system, cope with its constraints, or follow Chuck0 and ignore the whole damn thing. This exercise doesn't really tell us much about the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 27 11:55:48 PST 2004

1498 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader -- rank: 472

Thanks Lance for illustrating my point. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Murdoch" <lancemurdoch at lycos.com> Nathan Newman says: > Yes, it's convenient that the ultraleft can dismiss the AFL-CIO, the NAACP, > the Sierra Club, the Human Rights Campaign, and every other major mass > organization out there as "not the movement ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Aug 25 13:02:37 PDT 2004

1499 nader -- rank: 472

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >The US political system is fundamentally hostile to second parties. The >first-past-the-post system, which only the UK continues to use, ensures >that you get monopolies -- the 51% rule, the 49% get turned off from >politics, etc BTW, you have it back to front. The ...

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Author:	billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Date:	Wed Aug 7 17:04:55 PDT 2002

1500 [lbo-talk] Kerry v. Nader -- Enough already!!!!! -- rank: 472

On Sep 23, 2004, at 2:45 AM, mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: > Now, whether that will turn out to be the case ..... who knows? One notable characteristic of a certain type of political mind is that it is much more interested in interminable debates about things no one knows or ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Sep 23 07:57:57 PDT 2004