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3046 [lbo-talk] Fox Poll: Kerry 47%, Bush 43% -- rank: 235

... 42% LIKELY VOTERS - WHO VOTE FOR? Bush 43% Kerry 47% Nader 2% REGISTERED VOTERS - WHO VOTE FOR? Bush 42% Kerry 46% Nader 2% WHICH CANDIDATE IS: - A strong leader Bush 44 (was ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Sat Aug 7 17:09:56 PDT 2004

3047 Clinton Apologia (Re: Rightward ho! -- rank: 235

(Sigh) What a mass of (typically American leftist) confusion. Pure pragmatism. It rather nicely encapsulates several key points of confusion (let there be 1000 points of confusion!) and is therefore worth a reply. But not now, I have work to do. Suffice to say that the failure to understand the ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Thu Jan 4 16:59:21 PST 2001

3048 [lbo-talk] Tariq on my show last night -- rank: 235

>TA: We're talking about the government which took the United States >to war. Had Gore been elected, he would have gone to war in >Afghanistan, but I doubt he would have gone to war in Iraq. This is >very much a neocon agenda, dominated by the need to get ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Aug 6 23:07:16 PDT 2004

3049 [lbo-talk] Four Ways to Fire a Frenchman -- rank: 235

... out of stilleto heels or because I voted for > > Ralph Nader or Pat Paulsen? > > Although you could not really vote for either Nader or Paulsen in > France, you'd have to restrict yourself ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Mar 30 05:00:44 PST 2006

3050 AntiSemite-baiting the left -- rank: 235

>Instead (from a safe Pacific Rim distance) I propose we bash New York City >on this list. It is the center of American Zionism, . . . > >Really? How is it the center of zionism? >Cuz there's lots of jews there? Hmm, Max, are you inferring (none too subtly) that this is ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Thu Jan 11 19:18:43 PST 2001

3051 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 235

... to Be Done? >by Jonathan Feldman >JonathanMFeldman at hotmail.com > > >Nader's candidacy and the recent anti-globalization protests are certainly ... very *bad* showing for a third-party candidate in America. Nader wanted to demonstrate the strength of the left without throwing ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Sun Jan 14 08:17:19 PST 2001

3052 [lbo-talk] Trippi: only the grassroots can save the Dems from death spiral -- rank: 235

Wall Street Journal - November 30, 2004 COMMENTARY Only the Grassroots Can Save The Democratic Party By JOE TRIPPI The staggering defeat of the Democratic Party and its ever-accelerating death spiral weren't obvious from the election results. Two factors masked the extent of the party's trouble. Without the innovation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 30 06:44:26 PST 2004

3053 Gates and Monopolies -- rank: 235

>The U.S. Socialist Party was of the same mind. To quote the International >Socialist Review of September 1900: "The character of the anti-trust movement >is analogous to the anti-machinery movement of a century ago when the hand >loom weavers marched throughout England and destroyed the power looms ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Wed May 20 10:20:13 PDT 1998

3054 Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done? -- rank: 235

... bad* showing for a third-party >>candidate in America.... > >The Nader campaign is in no way to be compared to those ... Henry Wallace, or Barry Commoner. Then you'll see that >Nader received a much bigger vote, both absolutely and relatively, than ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Jan 15 14:59:58 PST 2001

3055 [lbo-talk] Alternatives to TARP cash for toxic waste -- rank: 235

Looks like slightly improved but still bad law will be made soon, but anyway here are some alternative plans I dug up: Liberal economist James Galbraith has already written two or more op-eds, the first along the lines of Krugman suggesting essential modifications to Paulson plan, but the later one ...

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Author:	Charles Peterson
Date:	Sun Sep 28 00:52:49 PDT 2008

3056 U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms -- rank: 235

... Needless to say, this is no longer standard procedure. But Nader's claim is a strong sign that, to put it ...

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Author:	Bradford DeLong
Date:	Mon Mar 11 07:49:16 PST 2002

3057 U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms -- rank: 235

... Needless to say, this is no longer standard procedure. But Nader's claim is a strong sign that, to put it politely, he is vastly underbriefed on airline security issues. > Nader actually said that about cockpit doors? i thought you were ...

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Author:	Micheal Ellis
Date:	Mon Mar 11 08:30:55 PST 2002

3058 [lbo-talk] It All Started in the Ohio Country! -- rank: 235

Mr. "Fuck the South" claims the American Revolution for the Northeast: <blockquote>And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really? Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Nov 9 18:13:29 PST 2004

3059 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 235

Michael Smith says he longs for Todd Gitlin's death: I don't. And I would wait 24 hours before reposting my critique of him, "Angry White Men on the Left" (below) Smith says: "I for one wouldn't have a good word to say for Todd Gitlin thirty seconds after ...

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Author:	utopia1 at attglobal.net
Date:	Thu Nov 9 18:31:47 PST 2006

3060 [lbo-talk] Ralph loves the nice plutocrats -- rank: 235

You just don't get Nader's clever strategy. He deliberately ignores democracy in his own ... truth of their own nondemocratic society. "Wait," they will say, "Nader's organization is nondemocratic -- but then is not society as ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Sep 23 16:24:16 PDT 2009