>
> Comrade Dean wrote:
>
>
> "They had the Democratic chair leader of the California legislature(?)
> talking about what these results mean. He says that the Dems are too far
> left and they need to take a hard look at their policies.
>
> Oy."
That was Don Perata, a longtime liberal Party hack. (His campaign photos always have him w/ Teddy Kennedy) Perata, played hardball (hey, politics ain't beanbag, the saying goes) against us folks in the left Democrat, John George Democratic Club which gathered up the Jesse Jackson Democrats from the '88 campaign in Oakland/Berkeley. Keith Carson, who did win a later race, and has been on the Alameda County Bd. of Supes since, got tons o' trash thrown at him by Perata and his minions.
> Switching gears, I will say now that the California election demands that
> everybody on this list become a Howard Dean supporter. Why? Because of
> his
> stance on the issues? No. To beat Bush? No. To beat Terry McAuliffe.
> You cannot beat the Republicans unless you beat the Republicans inside
> the
> Democratic party first.
>
>
> peace,
>
> boddi
I'm resisting the calls to line up w/ Dean from DP friends. For many reasons which deserve a thread now or later.
McAuliffe is pushing hard for Wesley Clark, from the NYRB, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16650, "Iraq: What Went Wrong, " By General Wesley K. Clark.
From the, "Vietnam was a 'mistake' and/or ,'we could have won with more troops, weaponry, a better, 'winning heats and minds, ' strategy...A chapter in this on Vietnam War historiography, "Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany and the United States. M. E. Sharpe, 2000, "contrasting radical (Marilyn B. Young) , liberal (Halberstam, Karnow) and conservative (Guenter Lewy, "America In Vietnam, " which tried to cast doubt on the Winter Soldier accts. of war crimes, and Mark Lane's book, Vietnam Veterans Against The War. "THE WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION: An Inquiry Into American War Crimes, " Boston: Beacon (1972) , (you listening Yoshie?) by citing a NYTimes Neil Sheehan piece from '70.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/smearing.htm
> ...Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Neil Sheehan reported on the Vietnam
> War for the New York Times. Although he became strongly opposed to the
> war, he condemned Lane's book in the following review from the New York
> Times Book Review, December 27, 1970.
-- Michael Pugliese