<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The "Democratic Party" is controlled by the Clintons and their big-donor pals,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with old-line liberals as a kind of loyal opposition (Teddy K et al.).  It looks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>increasingly like Dean is not part of the club; one reason is that his fund-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>raising base is independent.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aside from whatever Dean has said about policy, to me this is interesting.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In a different way this is true for Gephardt as well, though his base -- industrial</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unions -- is not a </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>new political force, in and of itself.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course I think well of Greider and his judgement, so I too find this column</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to be persuasive.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mbs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mdawson@pdx.edu href="mailto:mdawson@pdx.edu">Michael Dawson -PSU</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] Greider</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is my third and last post today.  For those who, like me, are still on the fence about Dean, William Greider's little jot in the new Nation is pretty convincing stuff.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031215&s=greider">http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031215&s=greider</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peace out!</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>