>* his "Big Left & Liberal Tent" microstrategy for running for prez in 04 comes
> across, at least for me, as rather inspirational; I'm not sure it's terribly
> realistic or will be a winning strategy, but it strikes me as a better
> strategy than Nader's in '00 (well, for some value of 'better')
Yup. He very clearly wants to be seen as a leader of a broad left coalition (and he doesn't shy away from the word "left" either). But the mainstream and many white lefties won't see him that way. A politician who's black is always framed as a black politician (or novelist or musician or...)
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