[lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jan 29 05:02:37 PST 2009


Might...maybe...maybe...// Maybe...maybe...maybe...maybe

Perhaps or Maybe it is a chump's gaime to speculate about motive.

Carrol Eubulides wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shane Taylor" <shane.taylor at verizon.net>
> To: "LBO-Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship
>
> > Michael Pollak wrote:
> >
> >> There might be some political payoff to having wooed them so publicly
> >> and assiduously (and getting them to say in public that never before
> >> has any Democrat gone so far in reaching out to them) before voting
> >> against them party line. Maybe this won't turn out to be an entirely
> >> soft-headed strategy in the end. Maybe this unity talk has more guile
> >> in it than it's been given credit for.
> >
> > Maybe, or maybe Obama underestimates party discipline on the other side of
> > the aisle. Maybe he has mistaken for an obstreperous minority what is the
> > party core, mistook their very identity for a exhausted tactic. Maybe he
> > simply can not, as a matter of temperament, understand fanatics.
> >
>
> ============
>
> You mean these guys?
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korea-fight28-2009jan28,0,4741734.story
>
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