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> On Dec 21, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
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>> More importantly, the practical conclusion from attacking Obama's
>> policies is that a primary challenge against Obama should be now in
>> preparation...We can't avoid the issue of personal leadership. Any
>> political
>> challenge against Obama would have to be personified to be serious.
>> Frankly, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, and other
>> well-known figures of the left are not up to this task. If we
>> exclude
>> miracles, the personification of the primary challenge to Obama -- if
>> it's going to emerge -- is most likely to come from inside the
>> Democratic Party!...
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> The "primary challenge" to Obama from the left was and is
> personified in Dennis Kucinich. There is no alternative in sight.
> Small as his height may be, no other Dumbocrat on the national stage
> (Marcy Kaptur possibly excepted) comes up to his knees.
> Unfortunately for Julio (though emphasizing how "dangerous" even
> the slightest possibility of a real contest in the DP primary was
> and is), Representative Kucinich has been vilified in the corporate
> media (including such "leftist" outposts as the Stewart/Colbert
> hour) far more and far more effectively (by pervasive ridicule) than
> Chomsky, Moore, and Nader combined. The Dumbocratic Party primary
> remains the blind alley it has always been.
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> Shane Mage
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>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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