[lbo-talk] Dubya-Commie

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Tue Jun 24 06:12:25 PDT 2003


On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:


>
> i didn't have any trouble with this. it's a very entertaining outline
> of a john edwards speech. a snippet:
>
> <clip>
> 8) Bush is as bad as a socialist. Key paragraph: "This [taxing people
> who work and not people who don't work] is the most radical and
> dangerous economic theory to hit our shores since socialism a century
> ago. Like socialism, it corrupts the very nature of our democracy and
> our free enterprise tradition. It is not a plan to grow the American
> economy. It is a plan to corrupt the American economy."
>
> [ . . . ]
>
> In a nutshell, Edwards is trying to turn the traditional politics of
> left and right upside down. It may be too crazy to pull off, but it's
> easily the most interesting thing anybody in this race has said so > far.
> </clip>

incidentally, the craziest, most interesting part is probably the tactic of red-baiting dubya, of all people.

maybe he's been reading pugliese's posts. ;-)

<ducking>

j



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