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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>I'll lay money on this: The Nation will endorse
Hillary Clinton for president in '08. Below is a letter (unpublished)
that I sent to The Nation in May suggesting that this would happen. The
latest issue (8/24-9/4) carries this a step further in the lead editorial,
"Lamont Wins." The magazine speaks of "a party that wants to keep its
antiwar base energized..." There is a complimentary reference to Hillary, who
they paraphrase as having said that "anyone who intends to lead the Democratic
Party in 2008 had better be aggressively backing its candidates in 2006." There
is absolutely no mention of her cynical pro-war triangulation ("give them better
jackets," etc.)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>And noplace in this editorial is there any mention of Jonathan
Tasini's antiwar candidacy against Hillary in the New York Democratic primary
(<A href="http://www.tasinifornewyork.org">www.tasinifornewyork.org</A>). The
only alternative to describing this silence as despicable would be to describe
it as stupid. Even the Times, albeit grudgingly, saw that it had to mention
Tasini's candidancy in an article about Lamont's victory against Lieberman. The
Nation joins the worst of the mainstream media in blacking out
Tasini.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Jesse Lemisch</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>To The Nation, May 27 2006</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3>Week after week, month after month, The Nation
invests ecstatic hope in one<BR>or another fully tested and proven hopeless
figure from the hopeless,<BR>unprincipled and moribund Democratic Party -- Al
Gore ("Gore Warms Up," June<BR>12), or even, god help us, the latest Revised
Edition of John Kerry (prior<BR>issue).<BR><BR>This is an ancient script in
which The Nation keeps filling in new names.<BR>It's done this regularly in the
half century during which I have been a<BR>subscriber. In a year, will The
Nation be touting some yet-to-be-fantasized<BR>New Hillary?<BR><BR> It
doesn't work. When will they ever learn?<BR><BR>Jesse Lemisch<BR>Professor
Emeritus of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
CUNY<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>