On 4/20/06, Max B. Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Kos is too full of himself to take advice from anyone.
>
> Dems are anxious to work with him because he helps them raise money.
>
> He's not very ideological in any case. He's got this quaint
> SDS-circa-1965
> idea of participatory democracy, transplanted to the Internet. He said in
> an interview on Jon Stewart that his two favorite pols are Mark Warner and
> Russ Feingold, who are about as different as you can get within the party.
> He is mainly focused on helping Dems win elections, an objective which
> dovetails with his business (selling ads on a Democratic partisan web
> site,
> and providing Internet-expertise related services to electoral
> candidates).
>
>
> I'm biased, but I know him.
>
> mbs
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Jim Devine
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:52 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Kos [was: the political wing of the organized
> working class]
>
> On 4/20/06, info at pulpculture.org wrote:
> > I assume Kos takes his marching orders from the Dems <
>
> I think it's more accurate to say that Kos agrees with the general Dem
> attitude. He or she probably helps to create that attitude and the
> "marching orders" received by people with less power in the Party than
> Kos has.
>
> Even the Dems have to respond to the rank and file of their party,
> though. If the Big Boys and Girls choose another Kerry (or choose
> Kerry again), the activists may get turned off and decide not to be so
> active...
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
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