Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Dan Scanlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/07/04 2:44 PM Monthly Review, Feb. 2001 The Nader Campaign and the Future of U.S. Left Electoral Politics by The Editors In our view, the Nader campaign was the electoral side of the mass organizing that produced the extraordinary demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 and in

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Louis Proyect
The easy thing to forget about Nader is that electoral politics and the Green Party are just two of the many prongs of his civic thrust. Dan Scanlan But don't forget that he is working with nefarious forces to get on the ballot in Michigan. Maybe he should have proposed John McCain as his

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Dan Scanlan
Louis wrote... Maybe he should have proposed John McCain as his running-mate instead of Peter Camejo. I'm sure that would have gotten him a clean bill of health from the Nation Magazine, Salon.com, commondreams.org and alternet.org just as it got John Kerry. Nader has not sought the endorsement

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Louis Proyect
Dan Scanlan wrote: Bush will lose the election because he's done his job. Now it takes a Democrat to clean up and implement. Kerry will be to W. as Clinton was the H.W. I don't think Nader's insight will be fully appreciated until after a few more cycles of this crap, if we survive that long. That

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Devine, James
Today, it won't be anything that dramatic unless some crazed terrorist gets a hold of a nuclear device and sets it off in Soho. Goodbye, Starbucks. actually, these days, the nut could set it off _anywhere_ and destroy a Starf*cks. jd (I buy mine at an independent drive-in coffee place on PCH

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-09 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/9/2004 1:53:58 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That reminds me. I've been meaning to research how Hitler came to power.You have to remember that the German SP was the ABB of its day, exceptthat it was ABH instead. They kept backing lesser evils

Re: An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-08 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/07/04 2:44 PM Monthly Review, Feb. 2001 The Nader Campaign and the Future of U.S. Left Electoral Politics by The Editors In our view, the Nader campaign was the electoral side of the mass organizing that produced the extraordinary demonstrations in Seattle in 1999 and in

An editorial worth repeating

2004-07-07 Thread Louis Proyect
Monthly Review, Feb. 2001 The Nader Campaign and the Future of U.S. Left Electoral Politics by The Editors The unlikely postelection contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, which ultimately led to the anointing of Bush as president by the Republican majority on the US Supreme Court (despite