Well, at least Charles' (and the CP's) kind of politics helped to end Jim Crow and get affirmative action going. Whereas Coxian politics has achieved...
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 9:33 AM
> Carrol Cox
>
>
> I haven't yet read Charles's reply below -- but Yes I
> think he would
> be "be blanketing the Internet with apologetics > for
> John Kerry"
> because the CP is committed to supporting the DP as the
> best
> available. I think that position is wrong for many reasons,
> but I
> don't think it grounded solely or even mostly in Obama's
> race. *** Now
> I've read Charles reply. My comment on that is that I do
> not criticize
> the enemy, which the U.S. President is ex officio; I oppose
> the enemy
> even while I might join in pressure to bring about certain
> policies on
> his part, but I neither praise nor condemn him as a person
> but only
> see him as the personification of all I want destroyed. I
> really think
> it silly to criticize him. Rather talkk about how we can
> organize to
> bring pressure on him -- that is, on the government, in
> respect to
> those polcies where we might have some leverage --if we
> forgot about
> the policies where we cannot possibly have leverage, yea or
> no (such
> as the bank bailout).
>
> Carrol
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: Your comment portrays a falsely simplified
> version of the CP's
> actual positions now and historically on the DP. What you
> say is
> typical of ultra leftist distortions of those positions.
>
> The best refutation of your claim is that right now the PWW
> supports
> Obama on his budget, EFCA, et al, but opposes the War on
> Afghanistan
> and the Wall Street bailout.
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