Dean's not that tall either, is he? Sadly I think Cagle beat Ralph Reed not because Reed's a whore but because he's little.
Poor, poor, pitiful Reed.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > I'd be surprised if any US leftist other than
> Chuck0-like anarchists
> > (abstention), Solidarity and the ISO (a third
> party), and incorrigible
> > pacifists (Dennis Kucinich), who together
> constitute a small minority
> > of US leftists, would campaign for anyone other
> than a
> > Master-Class-approved Democratic Party candidate
> and try to change the
> > parameters of "electability" (the seal of Master
> Class approval,
> > signified by direct and indirect campaign
> donations, corporate media
> > coverage, etc.).
>
> This is ludicrous. The left, whatever that is
> exactly, in the U.S. is
> small and weak. It has no chance of electing a
> president, or even of
> significantly influencing a presidential campaign.
> It's a waste of
> time to think otherwise, though that didn't stop the
> Nader campaign.
> The left, whatever that is, would be better off
> spending time at
> lower levels of politics - city, state, even the
> House of
> Representatives, but the presidency is a lost cause.
>
> Doug
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