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2716 Clinton Apologia (Re: Rightward ho! -- rank: 298

It is truly beyond comprehension that anyone who claims to be "left" or "progressive" can continue to defend this conservative political party. And yes, Barbara Lee or Maxime Walters could quote all day from Marx and Lenin for all it is worth, but as members of this "moderately" right-wing, and ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Jan 3 18:15:27 PST 2001

2717 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 298

... very *bad* showing for a third-party >candidate in America. Nader wanted to demonstrate the strength of the >left without throwing ... throwing the election to Bush - can't be blamed on Nader. Peter

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sun Jan 14 08:57:41 PST 2001

2718 [lbo-talk] Obama, Carter, Israel -- rank: 298

> > www.votenader.org > > > Obama is such a man of principle. > > Take Israel/Palestine as an example. > > Tradition has it that former presidents get a speaking slot at the > national conventions. > > Not at Obama's convention. > > Not in Denver. > > President Jimmy Carter was scheduled to speak at the DNC in Denver ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Aug 30 10:12:40 PDT 2008

2719 [lbo-talk] Query: Your favorite speeches and talks -- rank: 298

... https://vimeo.com/8621774) would be good for this. Ralph Nader also had something appropriate (about corporate personhood?) at some law ... others. But in terms of performance, I think Malcolm and Nader are very good. Nader in particular acts like a statesman without a state.) All ...

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Author:	Tayssir John Gabbour
Date:	Thu Jun 28 08:44:02 PDT 2012

2720 [lbo-talk] Kshama Savant says time has now arrived for Bernie to break with Democrats -- rank: 298

... doubt such a campaign would far surpass the effort by Nader and Camejo in 2004 because of the much changed economic ... talking about a very small slice of the electorate: the Nader-Camejo campaign only garnered 0.38% of the popular vote ... The same fear that made Democrats and independents who admired Nader s progr

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Apr 21 16:07:11 PDT 2016

2721 The Beam in the Eye of the Empire (was Re: Kosova Redux) -- rank: 298

... the USA -- from Pat Buchanan to Bill Clinton to Ralph Nader to > >garden-variety liberals & social democrats here; but American leftists ... beam in their own eyes. Even truer, including, if not Nader, "Naderism", i.e., the figure of the "Public Citizen", the ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Mon Jan 29 17:32:41 PST 2001

2722 [lbo-talk] Re: Berlusconi next? and John Kerry's options -- rank: 298

... Zapatero option," they must say that they will vote for Nader _unless_ Kerry pursues it. B. docile_body at yahoo.com ... d throw Texas to Bush?" > >So, you're basically admitting Nader wouldn't have had a chance to >win in Texas ... who live in one-party states should all campaign for Nader, unless they want to aggravate abstention resulting from the misera

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 13 05:22:00 PDT 2004

2723 [lbo-talk] An Analysis of the Post-Convention Zogby Poll -- rank: 298

... that maybe allows us to cut through the noise of Nader and LV models and undecideds? Does he think that at ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Aug 3 03:40:53 PDT 2004

2724 Dead Horse Dept. -- rank: 298

... attglobal.net> New Politics, Summer 2001, carries a symposium: "The Nader Campaign and the Future of Independent Politics," organized by Joanne ... The Democrats: No Way to fight the Right"; Jesse Lemisch, "Nader vs. the Big Rock Candy Mountain"; Ellen Willis, "The Democrats ... Hawkins, "Blame the Democrats, not the Greens." All participants supported Nader in 2000, but most are critical in various ways. Hawkins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 20 13:11:41 PDT 2001

2725 [lbo-talk] Re: a victory of sorts in india... -- rank: 298

... the party will support opponents to them. The problem with Nader and the Greens is that they have zero strategy to ... problem with this view is that ignores the fact that "Nader and the Greens' rejected this strategy because it is a ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Thu May 13 12:52:41 PDT 2004

2726 Bush-GOP to Wipe Out Ergonomic Protections for Workers -- rank: 298

... the perks of controlling it which those who voted >for Nader too easily dismissed. > >And workers will pay for it now ... rather. How can you be sure that those voting for Nader easily dismissed this "perk" of controlling the excutive branch? I ... matter whether or not one had reservations about voting for Nader. Likewise, it probably didn't matter that one had reservations ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Wed Mar 7 08:31:24 PST 2001

2727 [lbo-talk] ex-naderites for Kerry -- rank: 298

... so-called smart people are too stupid to understand that > Nader's campaign is about putting progressive issues into the > election, not in actually getting Nader elected. And it is obviously working splendedly, since all the media have to say about Nader is whether he can get on enough ballots to decide ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Tue Sep 14 18:19:04 PDT 2004

2728 [lbo-talk] first bounce: 4 points -- rank: 298

Politics First Poll Shows Hike for Kerry After Convention WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic presidential ticket gained a solid bounce in a new poll following last week's convention but the new nominee, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), said on Sunday he wasn't paying attention. Kerry, appearing on "Fox News ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 1 08:26:35 PDT 2004

2729 [lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil -- rank: 298

On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 06:39 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote: > The idea is not that the worse things get the better. It is that we > have been stripped of so much that the opportunity cost of reclaiming > what we have lost and obtaining what we should have is negligible ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Sat May 15 14:12:50 PDT 2004

2730 Neoclassical Logic -- rank: 298

... Lori Wallach wasn't in that debate. It was Ralph Nader, John >>Cavanagh, and Vandana Shiva for the anti-WTO side ... a supermarket - she sounded like Marie Antoinette in a sari. Nader rambled, and when David Aarons (I think I'm spelling ... right), the then-Undersecretary of Commerce for International Affairs, asked Nader how a consumer advocate could support import restrictions (which generally ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 16 14:41:39 PST 2001