[lbo-talk] Cuba petition

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: <JBrown72073 at cs.com>
-But the left squanders no moral authority, and in fact gains it, when it
-refuses to condemn the Democratic party.  We can--no, must!--denounce
Castro
-but not Clinton.  (Giving new meaning to 'he might be a sonofabitch, but
he's
-our sonofabitch.')

I never said not to condemn the Democratic Party when they do harmful
things-- I was in the streets denouncing Clinton on both NAFTA and welfare
reform.  Actually my position on Cuba and the Dems is about the same--
condemn their bad acts and work like hell to protect them from the insane
attacks of the Republicans.

This whole discussion is just depressing.  Castro kills a number of folks
and imprisons scores of other dissidents and folks just yawn.  I'm not
having a Horowitz moment but I sure am having a Walzer moment.

-- Nathan Newman