My 12 year old daughter had to watch the debate
as part of her social studies homework. She said
that, whereas Bush acted as if he thought Gore was
an asshole; Gore acted as if he thought the public
were assholes.
Ellen Frank
I didn't watch the debate myself. Didn't want to
spoil the high I was riding on since Sunday when
Ralph Nader, on a shoe-string budget and with
virtually no advance publicity, filled the Boston
Garden (he refuses to call it the Fleet Center).
12,000 people, mostly under 30, rousing speeches,
IMO, Gore 9, Bush 1 (sympathy).
Gore in command of the issues and the facts. Bush looked supremely ignorant
and downright dumb. had absolutely no logical or factual rejoiners. used a
few one-liners that fell flat. looked uncomfortable. didn't use any of the
natural charm he has.
i felt
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Oct. 3, 2000 | BOSTON (AP) -- Thousands of protesters gathered before the
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Bush's main ideological point -- that the people can make decisions better
than government bureaucrats -- was never answered by Gore. Gore could have
answered in two ways:
(1) that when Bush talks about "the people", he's talking about the rich,
since these are the folks who would get the
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also, did anyone notice that Gore was more hawkish -- more willing to send
US troops overseas -- than Bush, while of course the latter is willing to
defend "our" oil to the death.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Bush's main ideological point -- that the people can make decisions better
than government bureaucrats -- was never answered by Gore. Gore could have
answered in two ways:
(1) that when Bush talks about "the people", he's talking about the rich,
since these are the folks who would get the
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And I'm not sure you're a liberal.
You show some radical tendencies.
Hey Max. Yeah, well I try to pass sometimes. Though I gotta
say, liberals are a tough lot to fool. Generally they hate
radicals more than they hate
Can you imagine how much better the debate would have been with someone like
Nader who could cut through such slogans?
Jim Devine wrote:
Bush's main ideological point -- that the people can make decisions better
than government bureaucrats -- was never answered by Gore. Gore could have
I thought that we discussed this before. The key is that, except for the Y2K hype
period
when business needed experienced COBOL programmers, older programmers have difficult
finding jobs. Younger people are in demand. They can be manipulated to work longer
hours
and require less money. The
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At 08:36 AM 10/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
Can you imagine how much better the debate would have been with someone like
Nader who could cut through such slogans?
according to SLATE: The [Washington Post] early edition reports that Ralph
Nader had a ticket to the debate but doesn't say what happened.
JD:
Bush's main ideological point -- that the people can make decisions better
than government bureaucrats -- was never answered by Gore. Gore could have
answered in two ways: . . .
It is distressing to see 'liberal' being redefined by
Gore in terms of targeted tax relief, while 'conservative'
Michael wrote:
I thought that we discussed this before. The key is that, except for the
Y2K hype period
when business needed experienced COBOL programmers, older programmers have
difficult
finding jobs. Younger people are in demand. They can be manipulated to
work longer hours
and require less
The structural view of inflation in the US suggests that once built into
the normal operations of the economy, the wage-price spiral and similar
inertial processes tend to persist unless there is a deep or long-lasting
and thus painful recession (or successful incomes policies or similar major
Jim Devine wrote:
At 06:47 PM 10/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Here are some of the tough questions we'd ask Bush and
Gore.
how about: if you wore corporate logos on your uniform to reflect
your commercial sponsorship the way NASCAR drivers do, which
corporate logo would be largest?
Capital K
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Clearly capital is slavering to exploit these lucky workers (below).
But is this because in marxist terms, the rate of their exploitation is
particularly high - and outweighs the cost of their wages?
(((
Charles: Their status as immigrants
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New Yorkers: You are invited to a discussion about the on-going crisis at
the Pacifica Radio network:
Tuesday, October 10th, 6:30 p.m. at the offices of DC 1707 - 75 Varick St.
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at Canal)
How about a red, white, and blue $$ over the heart?
Gene
Doug Henwood wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
At 06:47 PM 10/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Here are some of the tough questions we'd ask Bush and
Gore.
how about: if you wore corporate logos on your uniform to reflect
your commercial
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The other, underappreciated aspect of Keynesian macropolicy is that it
partially frees the state from reliance on private capital investment,
"business climate", etc.
Peter (replying to Ellen Frank's DS article)
FYI -- Not only for its news report on the actions but for insights into
the young activist generation's thinking.
best, jay http://www.neravt.com/left/
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Subject: Bedtime for Democracy in Boston: "A fuckin' Brawl"
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:44:24 -0700
From:
according to SLATE: The [Washington Post] early edition reports that Ralph
Nader had a ticket to the debate but doesn't say what happened. The NY
[Times] and LA [Times] do: He showed up at the door and was refused
admittance.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
There is also a whole other dimension here.. Bush presumes that the family is
an autonomous social unit that acts but is not acted upon--a unit of
production, if you will, rather than a unit of consumption. He wants to empower
it by giving it more money, as if you could, through pure force of
Of course, it is important to note that all these funding mechanisms come in
the less visible (and individual family) form of tax expenditures, rather than
in either funding a whole program or providing direct aid.
Joel Blau
Max Sawicky wrote:
JD:
Bush's main ideological point -- that the
I'm interviewing Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian libertarian
propagandist, on the radio tomorrow. Any ideas for questions?
Doug
I'm interviewing Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian libertarian
propagandist, on the radio tomorrow. Any ideas for questions?
Doug
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How many acres of trees have been exported to Japan since Fujimori's been in
power? How much of Peru is owned by Japan? Does he see that as a form of
In my never-ending effort to enlighten the bored students, I decided that I
needed a cool graph to illustrate the increases in income inequality in the
US during the last few decades. For some reason, I couldn't find any
excellent ones in my library, so I made my own.
Using US Census data on
Do you think they had a tail on Nader through the day, so as to be able to
intercept him?
Gene Coyle
Louis Proyect wrote:
according to SLATE: The [Washington Post] early edition reports that Ralph
Nader had a ticket to the debate but doesn't say what happened. The NY
[Times] and LA [Times]
Blame me. It's my fault.
I thought it would be good if the Board of Governors had a solid
Democrat on it who could go toe-to-toe with the model builders on the
staff, and win. The higher-ups at Treasury bought the argument...
I had *no* *idea* that he was going to believe in his own models
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