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2206 Completely-Clueless-as-to-the-Point-of-the-Exercise-Depatrment -- rank: 419

... Clueless-as-to-the-Point-of-the-Exercise-Depatrment: "Ralph Nader called the Washington Post and complained that Al Gore has been calling Nader's celebrity endorsers and trying to get them to change their minds. "Nader didn't reveal the names of those who told him ... didn't want publicity. But the list of well-known Nader endorsers includes Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Raitt, Phil Donahue, Eddie Vedder ... and Willie Nelson. Paul Newman also has donated money to Nader. "Nader told the Post he wouldn't try to steal ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Thu Jul 13 11:27:07 PDT 2000

2207 [lbo-talk] ralph </flush> for free enterprise? aw hell naw. -- rank: 419

i don't pay a lot of attention to <flush> nader </flush>, but I was curious as to when <flush> Ralf ... fifth columnist at the USCC (snicker)? The best synopsis of Nader comes from Edward B. Rust, former president of the U ... S. Chamber of Commerce, who notes, "The whole point of Nader -- so obvious that it is often overlooked -- is his single ... as it's supposed to." Citizen Action excellently maps out Nader's critique of "corporate socialism," a critique that seems to ... privatized profits and socialized costs of corporations, with equal vehemence. Nader expects both to take a loyalty oath: socialists, for reasons ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Sat Oct 30 21:38:17 PDT 2004

2208 Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 419

Nathan, The 'media' loves conflict and street theater, I doubt that they are censoring anyone intentionally at the moment. The problem is that left intellectuals are preaching to the converted and they are not making enough noise. And yes, it matters what goes on in the mainstream media, if you are ...

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Author:	Vikash Yadav
Date:	Wed Dec 20 12:43:05 PST 2000

2209 Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 419

... slam forth, especially the same groups who may have attacked Nader. I know of relatively moderate Dem lawyer types calling for ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Dec 20 10:58:06 PST 2000

2210 US Supreme Court's power grab/ Law is politics/ Flexibility of tactics -- rank: 419

... inability to break out of the anti-Gore mode that Nader supporters have been in. Nader is out of it. The main avenue for marring Bush ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Dec 11 11:19:43 PST 2000

2211 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 419

----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> Nathan Newman wrote: >So you thought the abuses suffered by white folks in places like Wisconsin >and Oregon were likely to be similar to those faced by blacks and latinos in >Florida. -Fuck no. This is one of the things that ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Dec 1 14:25:25 PST 2000

2212 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 419

... what frustrates me about this whole comparison of Gore and Nader. I consider Nader one of "our guys" - a great progressive - while I am ... an ally in anything but an opportunistic manner. So when Nader acts or fails to act in the proper way, it ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Dec 1 12:08:34 PST 2000

2213 FW: Racial Blind Spot Continues to Afflict Greens -- rank: 419

----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Beal" <fmbeal at igc.org> To: "Independent Politics" <indpol at igc.org> Frances M. Beal is a columnist for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and National Secretary, Black Radical Congress. fmbeal at igc.org By Frances M. Beal While lawyers and political gurus tussle over ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Dec 1 08:30:40 PST 2000

2214 Laying Bets: W Will Win -- rank: 419

... would be creaming Bush in two-way polls, but > the Nader-Buchanan factor made the ultimate > outcome uncertain. I doubt Gore ... or error, I will be surprised. Actually, I think the Nader vote total is going to be largely unimportant (except in a couple of states). In the end, Nader's highest totals will be in states like California which Gore will win. Nader could throw a few smaller states - say Washington or Vermont ... but the midwestern so-called battleground states are not particularly Nader-friendly, so his total is unlikely to be decisive in the electoral college outcome. It is not Nader's vote totals but the attitude of "it doesn' ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Aug 15 08:06:16 PDT 2000

2215 [lbo-talk] The Green Party National Convention, June 23-28, 2004 -- rank: 419

... make political decisions -- most importantly, whether to endorse the Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo campaign, to nominate David Cobb as the Green Party presidential candidate, to endorse both the Nader/Camejo and Cobb campaigns, or not to nominate/endorse anyone ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 22 20:25:38 PDT 2004

2216 fulani-wise -- rank: 419

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Rakesh Bhandari > > It's seems to me that in 92 the reform party was fashioned by Perot to > steal votes from Bush, Sr to help along the otherwise hopeless ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sat Nov 27 11:34:28 PST 1999

2217 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly: "The Faster We Get Out of There, the Better" -- rank: 419

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 O'Reilly: "The Faster We Get Out of There, the Better" Bill O'Reilly apologized to the nation in February for having been "wrong about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq": Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly says he was wrong about weapons of mass destruction ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jun 17 11:36:45 PDT 2004

2218 [lbo-talk] Naseer Aruri: Make It Count -- rank: 419

<blockquote>Make It Count Once bitten, twice shy is a common response among Arab-Americans who sided with Bush in the last US presidential elections. Yet the "lesser of two evils" may not be good enough this time around, writes Naseer Aruri* Arab-Americans seem confused, undecided and bewildered by ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Oct 29 08:06:54 PDT 2004

2219 [lbo-talk] American Expat gives his vote to Malaysians -- rank: 419

Not quite. To readers of the online paper MalaysiaKini (in English -- Malaysia Today). Still a rather depressing 28% going for Bush. http://www.malaysiakini.com/print.php?id=31033 American expat votes for readers' choice in US poll Steven Gan Oct 26, 04 2:11pm American expatriate Erik Ossemig, who offered ...

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Author:	kjkhoo at softhome.net
Date:	Tue Oct 26 10:30:19 PDT 2004

2220 [lbo-talk] Re: Ends and Odds -- rank: 419

... now, giving him the benefit of the doubt. now, for nader, i have only this: <flush> At 09:56 PM 7 ... And speaking of the ridiculous . . . > >Frank asked for evidence about Nader being a racist. Doug has already >helped here, but in ... is too delicious, >as well as >delirious, not to repeat): > >Nader has demanded an apology from the CBC and Congressman Watt ... epithet directed at him by Watt. > >What was said? > >"Watt, Nader alleged, called him "just another arrogant white man, telling >us ... be apologized for? > >But I was wrong about one thing. Nader is not a racist. He is completely >out-to-lunch ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Wed Jul 14 19:30:08 PDT 2004