Doug gives an excellent account of such petitions. (I'm presuming it was an internet petition).
But a petition on which each signature represents a five-minute to one-hour conversation between the circulator and the signer is something else again. Such petitions can be powerful _even_ when they are never submitted. But that is a long topic I can't develop here. Carrol P.S. Mirabeau (I don't know whether father or son) once said: When ten men get together 10,000 tremble." Quoted from memory and I don't know the context. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 8:57 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Mark Weisbrot: Why Paul Krugman should be President > Obama's pick for US treasury secretary > > > On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > "Inside game"? I just initiated a petition signed by 100,000 people. > > When was the last time you did that? > > Congrats. You've caused 100,000 people to waste about 30 seconds of their > time. Add that up, and I think you've got a month of wasted human hours. > > What is the point of these things? They convince no one. They make not the > least bit of impression on political discourse. They trick naifs into thinking > they're doing something useful with their life. There's no way Obama would > consider Krugman for even a nanosecond. Politics aside, Obama's a guy > who's got to sell a shitload of bonds every business day. What do you think > Krugman would do for the sales effort? > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > 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
