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136 [lbo-talk] Barack Obama's crafty rise -- rank: 864

... African-American parade in the country, the summer rite was a draw over the years to boxing heroes like Muhammad Ali and jazz greats like Duke Ellington. It was also a must- stop for the city's top politicians. Back then, Mr. Obama, a state senator who was contemplating a run for Congress, was so little-known in the community ... black neighborhoods that it was hard to find more than a few dozen people to walk with him, recalled Al Kindle ... of his advisers at the time. Mr. Obama was trounced a year later in the Congressional race branded as an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 11 05:35:50 PDT 2008

137 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 660

... PM, shag wrote: > Ta-Nehisi Coates (who's father was a Panther) He's got a piece in The Nation. I'll post it without any ... May 19, 2008 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/coates. A Deeper Black by TA-NEHISI COATES To say that Barack ... When Obama greets his political allies, he does not give a simple, firm, businesslike handshake. Instead he offers the sort of dap--a little English in the wrist and a one-armed hug--that black males spend much of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 8 10:17:39 PDT 2008

138 [lbo-talk] LETTER TO SEIU PRESIDENT STERN CAUTIONS AGAINST UHW TRUSTEESHIP -- rank: 611

... at sadri.umass.edu> IN MAY DAY LETTER TO SEIU PRESIDENT ANDY STERN, 100 SCHOLARS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS DEFEND RIGHT TO ... TRUSTEESHIP More than 100 scholars, artists and writers have signed a letter sent to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president Andy Stern today cautioning him against placing the union's ... UHW) - SEIU's third largest local - was first reported in a front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 27, based on a letter sent by Stern to UHW President Sal Rosselli, who has called for greater democratization of ...

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Author:	Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Date:	Thu May 1 17:03:41 PDT 2008

139 [lbo-talk] Obama on Carter -- rank: 435

... html Obama slams Carter for meeting Hamas, tries to reassure Jewish voters By The Associated Press Tags: Barack Obama PHILADELPHIA - U ... S. Senator Barack Obama on Wednesday criticized former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for meeting with leaders of the Islamic terrorist group Hamas as he tried to reassure Jewish voters that his presidential candidacy is not a threat to them or U.S. support for Israel. The Democratic presidential candidate's comments, made to a group of Jewish leaders in Philadelphia, were his first on Carter's ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Thu Apr 17 06:44:15 PDT 2008

140 [lbo-talk] S & M and tea -- rank: 432

Evidently written by a French Pomoer: <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la ... resignation and the media frenzy over the delicious irony of a zealous reformer brought down by the kind of illicit activity ... story about <http://tinyurl.com/5ba77o>Max Mosley, the patrician president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, or FIA, which ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Apr 11 11:59:36 PDT 2008

141 [lbo-talk] Scott McLemee rip of Houston Baker rip of Michael Eric Dyson -- rank: 475

... Culture," by Michael Eric Dyson, who at that point was a professor of communications at the University of North Carolina at ... and Gangsta arrived bearing glowing endorsements, including one by Houston A. Baker Jr., a former president of the Modern Language Association. (Two years ago, Baker left ...

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Author:	Auguste Blanqui
Date:	Thu Apr 10 10:36:47 PDT 2008

142 [lbo-talk] Dem nomination: will it be up to the Jews? -- rank: 756

<http://www.forward.com/articles/12998/> Dozens of Jewish Super-Delegates May Hold Key to Democratic Race Campaign Marks a Communal Coming of Age in Party Politics By Jennifer Siegel Thu. Mar 20, 2008 According to a new survey conducted by the Forward, a disproportionately large share of the Democratic party s super- delegates are Jewish. Many of them have declared their support for Hillary Clinton ... general population of super-delegates, whose support remains fluid, several Jewish supporters of the New York senator said in interviews ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 21 11:26:43 PDT 2008

143 [lbo-talk] me & Iranians -- rank: 515

... contrarian indicator, in which >mainstream media attention to me is a sign of an impending bottom in >the markets. Are stories ... up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was a trip to six flags.") <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition ... com/news/printedition/front/la-fi-depression20mar20,1,1097237.story A new Great Depression? It's different this time Fear is ... government has new tools to address the downturn. By Michael A. Hiltzik Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 20, 2008 Dysfunctional ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Thu Mar 20 12:45:43 PDT 2008

144 [lbo-talk] Obama: put the squeeze on Iran and shun Hamas -- rank: 395

... nuclear program. However, like its two predecessors, this resolution represents a lowest common denominator because Russia and China did not agree to tougher sanctions. Iran's nuclear ambitions pose a serious threat to the United States, to our ally Israel and to international security. We urgently need to pursue a strategy of aggressive diplomacy that includes direct discussions with Iran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 9 17:40:27 PDT 2008

145 [lbo-talk] what chutzpah -- rank: 663

Obama Walks a Difficult Path as He Courts Jewish Voters Damon Winter/The New York Times Barack Obama speaking Friday at a town-hall-style meeting with veterans at the American Legion ... Senator Barack Obama is trying to strengthen his support among Jewish voters and in doing so, is navigating one of the more treacherous paths of Democratic politics. ^^^^ CB: That has a sort of anti-Semitic ring to it . "one of the ... The Caucus The challenge of meeting the concerns of the Jewish electorate, a cornerstone of the Democratic base, was evident ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Mar 7 06:42:08 PST 2008

146 [lbo-talk] BHO's foreign policy team -- rank: 688

... foreign affairs, Senator Obama's inner circle of advisers includes a Swahili-speaking Air Force general he met on a trip to Africa; a 30-year-old speechwriter who helped draft the final report from the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and President Clinton's first national security adviser, who in 2005 converted ... to Judaism under the tutelage of the Navy's chief Jewish chaplain. Those advisers in order are Scott Gration, Ben Rhodes, and Anthony Lake. They are part of a nine-person team, in contact every day, often by ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 21 06:38:36 PST 2008

147 [lbo-talk] FrontPage mourns Tom Lantos -- rank: 570

... denounced both Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder -- calling the latter a "political prostitute" and quipping that "the sex workers in my ... assembled crowd, gathered to witness this summer's dedication of a memorial to the victims of Communism, had expected from a Democrat representing California's deep-blue 12th congressional district, just south of San Francisco. "That guy is a Democrat?" a man in the audience asked incredulously. Tom Lantos, who died yesterday at the age of 80 after losing a struggle with cancer, was indeed a Democrat. It is a

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Author:	Steven L. Robinson
Date:	Sun Feb 17 19:07:48 PST 2008

148 [lbo-talk] Obama letter -- rank: 608

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, a list lurker passed on an article in the (New Jersey) Jewish Standard on Obama's letter to Khalizad (which included a facsimile of the letter) > http://www.jstandard.com/articles/3790 ... York.) But to the aggravation of his supporters, he has a much lower approval rating am

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sat Jan 26 11:07:43 PST 2008

149 [lbo-talk] do the Zionists trust Obama? -- rank: 407

... toward Israel refuses to calm down. On Wednesday, Obama sent a letter to the U.S. ambassador to the UN, calling ... Israel. But this did not yet convince all the doubters, Jewish and Israeli. Obama also has quite a few supporters in the Jewish community, but those opposing him are fairly vocal, and seem to be even more so as the campaign progresses. A couple of weeks ago, the Israeli tabloid Maariv ran a leading headline claiming that Israeli officials do not want ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 26 11:04:29 PST 2008

150 [lbo-talk] From the London Review of Books -- rank: 385

... as was the prospect of stopping Hitler’s rise by a comprehensive anti-Fascist union. The fact is that no one ... centre, got the true measure of Hitler’s National Socialism, a movement of a kind that had not been seen before and whose aims ... the Nazis as much the largest party, but short of a majority, the (Jewish) editor of the Tagebuch, a left-liberal weekly we took at home, published an ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Jan 20 21:59:51 PST 2008