How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. (Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg geführt? Diplomaten belügen Journalisten und glauben es wenn sie`s lesen.) --CGE
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>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 18:02:09 -0400
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Wow!
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>I was fascinated, in an unconvinced sort of way, by Larry
Bartels'
>remarks at the end of his interview with me. He argued that
the elite
>reads low approval ratings in the polls as a sign that the
president
>is in trouble, and so is his agenda. I'm not sure how much of
a there
>is there, but it's probably greater than zero - which
contradicts
>Woj's model of a puppet president. Yes, the power elite
wanted the
>Reagan/Volcker crackdown; I'm not sure they wanted Bush,
whoever the
>power elite is these days. And watching the pundits lately
>complaining about the hollowness and weakness of the Dems
makes me
>feel that maybe the power elite is ready to retire the Bush
agenda
>but doesn't know what to put in its place. And speaking of the
>relation between pundits and the power elite, I'm not
convinced that
>the power elite always knows what to think. I fear they read
Thomas
>Friedman books for guidance - I'm not kidding about that.
>
>Doug