[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

[Brad DeLong]

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>From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
>>  >The whole world is watching.
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>>  Interesting how "elect somebody who will be a good governor" is not
>>  on the list of things that Nader thinks are worth doing.
>>
>>  What a dork.
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>>  Brad DeLong
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>"It is the country that desperately needs leaders that the strong democrat
>worries over and pities...On its face, leadership is opposed to
>participatory self-government; it acts in place of or to some degree
>encroaches on the autonomy of individual actors...Complete self-government
>by an active citizenry would leave no room for leaders or followers.
>[Benjamin Barber]

Therefore we ought to elect an actor so that we can have an 
incompetent governor?

Didn't somebody once call this kind of thinking "an infantile 
disorder"? Vladimir Ilyich was many things, but stupid was not one of 
them.

Brad "Lenin" DeLong