[lbo-talk] forewarned is forearmed

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Thu Sep 2 09:41:56 PDT 2004


Right. But hasn't Cockburn managed to cozy up to the well-heeled? He can sip his Martinis while chaos rises and the inevitable(?) revolution that proves him right brews into the perfect storm.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>> R quoted
>>
>>> Kerry's Slippage
>>> The Stench of Doom
>>> By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
>>
>>
>> What is exactly his point? This man, who obviously is intelligent and
>> knows how to write well, used 675 words (and innumerable trees cut down
>> to spread these words) to say exactly what? Don't bother with Kerry,
>> stay with Bush? Don't bother with the election, go fuck a duck? Or
>> perhaps " I will say anything to spite and annoy those naïve liberal
>> dimwits to show how much smarter I am?"
>
>
> Cockburn has said many times that his aim is to increase the level of
> chaos in the system. Anything that increases chaos is good; anything
> that decreases it is bad. Therefore Jerry Brown is good. Ron Paul is
> good. The Michigan Militia is good. Presumably, by this standard,
> Kerry is worse than Bush.
>
> Doug
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