On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Is there *any* US President PEN-Lers would consider progressive > > > overall? > > How I wish we could rid ourselves of this vulgar notion: as if one > could boil somebody down to a 'progressive overall' rating. [...] You lose a lot of information when you reduce a vector to a scalar. > Really? You don't say! Poor Robert Naiman will be very surprised to hear this; he regularly gets subjected to much abuse for so much as suggesting that maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama is not indistinguishable from George W. Bush in every aspect that matters and anyone who thinks otherwise is a tool of the capitalist-controlled Democratic Party and an enemy of the working class. Indeed I thought that was the premise of this thread. -raghu.
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