[lbo-talk] Re: Albright on Iraq

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 2 08:17:03 PDT 2006


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>Joel Schalit:
>It definitely seems like the Democrats are pimping the God card in
>prep for the fall elections. Yck. Its also extremely insincere -
>trying to lure in Xtian voters in ways that they would never take
>seriously. Albright's an odd bird by background too - a Jew who
>converted to Catholicism etc.
>
>[WS:] It is not that uncommon in E Europe, though. Some of these converts
>are even more catholic than the pope.
>
>However, I do agree with your point that pimping the god card by the
>Democrats does not leave much hope for the foreseeable future. Why voting
>for an obvious fake when you can have the real thing? It looks like the
>Dems are totally intellectually bankrupt and void of any ideas.

I'm wondering if the message they took away from What's The Matter With Kansas is that they need to ape the Reps on the cultural issues - not that they should adopt a populist economic agenda.

Doug



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