[lbo-talk] Re: Dixiecrat Dean?

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 6 10:06:37 PST 2003


Actually I think the people who say that this may be a

deliberate attempt to do a Sista Soulja moment may be right -- otherwise he's dumber than we thought. jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
> >For his ("shocking!") embrace of Confederate flag
> wavers, Dean is
> >risking offending the liberal part of his following
> (pissing off
> >blacks and "lefties"), and going for the "big
> Clinton umbrella".
> >This move smacked of Clinton, who managed to do all
> sorts of things
> >deemed offensive to the black voting bloc, but
> never really suffered
> >for it---and grabbed Republicans at the same
> time......
>
> He phrased it really stupidly this time, but in
> earlier versions of
> the argument, he pointed out, rightly, that the Reps
> were able to use
> race-baiting to get working-class whites to vote
> against their
> economic interests.
>
> Doug
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