Yes, I bursted out laughing (reflexively) when he referred to such human emotions as "mawkish sentiment." <div>On 2/5/07, Doug Henwood <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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 < <a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:We saw the > documentary about Ralph Nader, An Unreasonable Man <http:// > <a href="http://www.anunreasonableman.com/"> www.anunreasonableman.com/</a>>, 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 > ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </a> </blockquote></div>