that said, it does strike me as clintonesque in its big tent appeal.
but then, what do i know? i thought EP Thompson should be on the "best" list rather than the "worst" list . . .
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 01:06 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> 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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