At 05:31 PM 5/6/2008, Julio Huato wrote:
>Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > It's not fine to keep on using terms like "Obamania" [...]
>
>There is not an Obamaniac list nor an Obamaphobe list -- there's the
>LBO-Talk list!
>
> > Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire, brother, call a spade a
> > spade. What we do around here is political criticism.
>
>The profound mistake of Charles' postings is not that he speaks about
>Obamaphobia in our list. It's that he speaks of it as if our list was
>static; as if no progress could be made -- as if shag, in spite of
>all, hadn't started to advocate for Obama with her co-workers.
>
>However, I can no more disown Charles than I can disown the rest of
>the list. For years, here and in PEN-L, Charles -- as imperfect as he
>may be -- has been like family to me. With his continuous challenges
>to my intellect, he's made me better. He has strengthened my belief
>in the socialist future of the human race. Not once in the notes he's
>posted have I read him impute motives to anybody in derogatory terms,
>or treat list members with whom he interacted with anything but
>courtesy and respect. He contains within him the contradictions -- the
>good and the bad -- of this list.
>
>(c) Julio Huato, 2008
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