On 11/18/2010 8:46 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> 1. I think the debate we've been having turns precisely on this issue. I didn't have the impression you favoured confrontation rather than accommodation with the Republican right and the interests they represent. You've been saying, with Woj and Charles, that there was and is no actual or potential majority in the US for tougher measures than those promoted and passed by the Obama administration.
You may have a reading problem.
On 11/15/2010 11:53 PM, SA wrote:
> supposedly, it's so obvious that a fightin' populist barnstorming
> campaign would make the country see the light -- I do think that's
> possible, but the risks are huge, and to anyone slightly risk-averse
> the evidence for its success is deeply uncertain.
>
> I shouldn't need to say this, but obviously, my own personal
> preference is that Obama do the fightin populism - compared to that, I
> couldn't care less about his 2012 reelection.
SA