1) We know from past history that changes, deep changes, can be brought about by mass action _outside_ the electoral process
2) Given that, I see no reason to alter in the least the decision I came to after LBJ's invasionof the Dominican Republic. Enough of this shit! Obama's problem is simple: He is President of the United States and acting like a President of the United States. I see no reason to get excited about the ordinary. Our concern as leftists lie elsewhere. And no leftists has ever been lured away from the DP by argumen/persuasion. Argument merely hardens them in their positoin. Leave them alone, make coalitions when one can, and let events operate. If events don't, that is meely an indication of the even greater uselessness of argument. Carrol Max Sawicky wrote: > > The Guinier thing was worse because she stood for an intellectual and > policy approach to dealing substantively with voting rights and > discrimination. Clinton trashed what she stood for, as well as her. > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes, but is it worse than when "the first black president" > dumped Lani Guinier? > > Gene Coyle > > On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > > >> If they have the decency to offer her the job back, I > hope she [Sherrod] turns it down.< > > > > hear, hear! > > > > I guess that the Obama administration is scared, "spooked" > by bond > > vigilantes and Teabaggers. This is worse than when the > Clintonites > > dumped Jocelyn Elders. > > -- > > Jim Devine > > "All science would be superfluous if the form of > appearance of things > > directly coincided with their essence." -- KM > > _______________________________________________ > > pen-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
