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1891 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Nathan Newman wrote: > I thinks that more complicated. On union labor issues, the GOP was always > rightwing and changed little, but on issues like civil rights and the > environment, there was a full-scale purge of the Rockefeller civil rights > and Teddy Roosevelt style environmentalists from ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Oct 13 08:14:25 PDT 2004

1892 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Nathan Newman wrote: > I thinks that more complicated. On union labor issues, the GOP was always > rightwing and changed little, but on issues like civil rights and the > environment, there was a full-scale purge of ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:37:46 PDT 2004

1893 [lbo-talk] Chomsky, Zinn and Nader/Camejo -- rank: 472

On Jun 25, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > What view is that? Well, for starters, there probably > are no "safe states" What do you mean? Conventional political wisdom says that there are. Do you think that there could be a sufficiently big upheaval to put all of them ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Sat Jun 26 08:57:03 PDT 2004

1894 [lbo-talk] Is Nader a Marxist, socialist, capitalist, bourgeois democrat, or just lonely -- rank: 472

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Joel Wendland wrote: > In 2000 on CNN he was asked by a caller on a call-in show if he was a > Marxist. His immediate and unflinching answer was, "no. I believe in > democracy." > > Joel Wendland This comment pretty much sums up my lack of enthusiasm ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Sun Oct 31 18:30:59 PST 2004

1895 [lbo-talk] Nader and His Detractors -- rank: 472

Yesterday afternoon, I recorded an interview with Tariq Ali, who was visiting NYC, which I'll broadcast during the WBAI fundraiser, Oct 28. He reiterated his emphasis on the importance of defeating Bush (which means electing Kerry) - and dismissed Ralph in the harshest terms, using words like "juvenile" and "narcissistic." He ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:25:33 PDT 2004

1896 [lbo-talk] Bob Weir: Nader's an "asshole" -- rank: 472

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:30:59 -0500, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Which certainly makes him a clear lesser evil in this campaign. An > asshole any day in preference to two would-be mass murderers. (Bush is > only a would-be so far, being far behind Kennedy ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Aug 3 14:07:03 PDT 2004

1897 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 472

... same day. Left > progressives who voted for Gore or for Nader are still > bashing each other. Maybe it's time to ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sun Nov 19 12:49:05 PST 2000

1898 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 472

Sigh. Isn't anybody tired of discussion about electoral reforms? Fundamentally, electoral reforms seem to be about nothing more than creating a system whereby americans might better manage their priviledge over the rest of the world. i know it's old fashioned to think this way but is there anybody else ...

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Author:	Christopher B. Hajib-Niles
Date:	Sun Nov 19 11:15:48 PST 2000

1899 Election Crisis and Electoral Reform -- rank: 472

... same day. Left progressives who voted for Gore or for Nader are still bashing each other. Maybe it's time to ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sun Nov 19 10:36:56 PST 2000

1900 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

Carrol Cox wrote: >And those political realities were NOT created by electoral politics. > >You have just given the main reason that ABB non-politics are so >obstructive to the development of a left in the u.s. What a bogus opposition. There's no reason one can agitate during an election ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:27:41 PDT 2004

1901 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

Carrol Cox wrote: >...so >obstructive to the development of a left in the u.s. What a bogus opposition. There's no reason one can agitate during an election season, and have a nonelectoral focus at other times. Ideologue, deconstruct thyself! Doug Yes, and the other missing item is historical materialism ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Wed Oct 13 10:56:54 PDT 2004

1902 ... lbo-talk] Kerry Solidly Ahead in Ohio, With or Without Nader -- rank: 472

Damn. Yoshie, get to work! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 13 14:44:46 PDT 2004

1903 Our Man Ralph Nader And Voting With Your Heart -- rank: 472

From: "Brad De Long" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> > You move the center to the left by winning the battle of ideas--not > by electing Republican majorities and a Republican president... That only applies when you have a leftist vs. a right-winger. What we have here now is a right ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Sat Jul 15 11:11:40 PDT 2000

1904 Nader Wins the Debate -- rank: 472

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Doug Henwood wrote: > Each pollster uses different techniques to project likely voters, > which may account for the diff between Zogby & Gallup. The time > trends within each poll are probably the joint product of noise and > real volatility. That's correct. I answered the wrong question, I ...

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Author:	Marco Anglesio
Date:	Thu Oct 5 11:37:02 PDT 2000

1905 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 472

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Nathan Newman wrote: > It's broader than that on civil rights. Remember in the mid-50s, > Eisenhower's Justice Department was promoting some decently progressive > civil rights bills with support from a number of GOP leaders. It was a > complicated dance, since the GOP was allied ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Oct 13 19:33:23 PDT 2004