[lbo-talk] women can drill too

brad bauerly bbauerly at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 14:39:26 PDT 2010



>Aren't you the one who's suggested there are rich pickings there?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nope, I've never said anything like that. Good to see that you read your own listserv.


>> What does that have to
>> do with your attempt to personalize the political and talk about how
>> stupid some person or another is?


>You think that's all I do? Really, where'd you get that idea?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't think I said that was all that you do. But you were engaged in it, which is what I was questioning. And wouldn't blaming that guy in the white house as the source of the problem also be a sort of blaming the individual for a social/political issue?


>yes, Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot. There are a lot of people who support her
>who think Obama is a socialist. That's fucking insane.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I don't think that you have to tell people here that. Doesn't this feed into the problem that you outline below?


> That's not the
>sum total of "our" problems, but those things are a problem. That
>quote was kinda funny, I thought, if you have a dark sense of humor.
>But like I just said, the Democratic Party right now is a bigger
>problem than the GOP, as far as I'm concerned. Like I've said, Palin
>and the TPers have made it too easy for liberals and Democrats. All
>they need do is invoke the fascist threat, and the checks come pouring
>into Morris Dees' PO box. Instead of "holding Obama's feet to the
>fire" as The Nation etc promised in 2008 - with whose arms?, I always
>wondered - they've got Melissa Harris-Lacewell practically calling for
>the prosecution of TPers for sedition. I've said that sort of thing
>here and elsewhere a bunch of times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You say that and you post the stuff about how stupid and evil the right is. Don't those kind of counteract each other? Are they stupid, evil and scary or is their portrayal as such enabling the dems to do nothing? Can't really be both. I agree that it is the real issue, but I guess I see a different strategy. One that is less contradictory. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> problem is that they are the ones running everything


>They're running Congress and the White House? That's news to me.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, they are running everything. Not the TP or the Republicans but the whole two parties of capital. We have to do everything we can to break these two parties into pieces. Talk about how one party is full of loony idiots acts to make the other seem as some sort of vehicle for the left. It isn't and won't ever be.


>> Sometimes I wonder if the whole point of this list isn't to make sure
>> that a strong left doesn't emerge.


>Do tell how it should emerge.


>Doug
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh let's just find another funny Palin quote...what an idoit.



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