[lbo-talk] conversation overheard

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 22 11:41:15 PDT 2011


On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:12 PM, c b wrote:


> Joe: Democratic party apologetics meets Stalin-style elections?
>
>
> Jack : That sounds like a Keynes-Trotsky type comment - Wall Street
> rentier poses as petit bourgeois revolutionist.

Uh, Charles, "Joe" was me (on Facebook), reacting to your preposterous reading of Michael Lind's suggestion that Obama run as a Republican.

Full context:


> Charles Brown That would be too good to be true. But who thought white supremacist America would elect a Black person in 2008, so maybe it could happen. Republican Party returns to its roots in the Liincolnites.
>
> Doug Henwood Charles, I'm hoping you purposely missed the point.
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> Charles Brown Wishful thinking on your part , comrade. I get ur point and am contradicting it. Support Obama. I mean he would be nominated by both parties.
>
> Doug Henwood Charles, Democratic party apologetics meets Stalin-style elections?

Lind's piece:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/21/lind_obama_republican



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