[lbo-talk] Nader film

Auguste Blanqui blanquist at gmail.com
Mon Feb 5 09:32:15 PST 2007


Yes, I bursted out laughing (reflexively) when he referred to such human emotions as "mawkish sentiment."

On 2/5/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> More than a little weird! As did his definition of personal loyalty,
> when he was defending his attack on Joan Claybrook when she was in
> the Carter admin. Loyalty for Ralph is all constructed around the
> issue, and when there's disagreement on the issue, then all all
> claims to loyalty are off. He could have said that he had to disagree
> but it was emotionally difficult for him, but whole portions of the
> human sensibility seem to be missing in Nader.
>
> Doug
>
> On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:44 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote:
>
> > I agree, though the zero-sum logic about having a girlfriend/wife/
> > family vs. doing public service was a little weird...
> >
> > On 2/3/07, Doug Henwood < dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:We saw the
> > documentary about Ralph Nader, An Unreasonable Man <http://
> > www.anunreasonableman.com/>, the other night. It's quite good -
> > mostly positive, but not cheerleader-y at all - and left both Liza &
> > me with an increased admiration for the guy (that recent presidential
> > thing aside). At a Q&A after the show, one of the filmmakers,
> > Henriette Mantel, said that Lynne Stewart recently gave her a hard
> > time for liking Ralph. She didn't elaborate, but I'm guessing that
> > Stewart thinks that a Gore admin would not have indicted her.
> >
> > Doug
> >
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