Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-21 Thread Sid Shniad
Here's your correction, Maggie: Clinton was opposed to being _drafted_ into the Vietnam War. Sid > > << THE > ONLY OPINION THAT REALLY COUNTS IS THE PRESIDENT'S. > And he's not going to be affected by a bunch of goofy > hecklers." >> > > Correct me if my memory is faulty, but

Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-21 Thread Thomas Kruse
At 20:53 20/02/98 -0800, you wrote: >On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> A second questions -- what IS it about ohio? Kent State, heckling the >> president's propaganda team. > >Proof positive, as if we needed it, that socialist dissidence is as >American as apple pie and cornfields

Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...II

1998-02-21 Thread valis
Tom Kruse asks: > ... [Back in early January of '91 e]veryone opposed a military > "solution". Then the shooting war started, and it was yellow ribbons and > support the troops. What's to suggest it might be any different this time? Despite worlds of difference between the two situatio

Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-20 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A second questions -- what IS it about ohio? Kent State, heckling the > president's propaganda team. Proof positive, as if we needed it, that socialist dissidence is as American as apple pie and cornfields. I have fond memories of OSU activists fro

Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-20 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 98-02-20 14:58:57 EST, you write: << THE ONLY OPINION THAT REALLY COUNTS IS THE PRESIDENT'S. And he's not going to be affected by a bunch of goofy hecklers." >> Correct me if my memory is faulty, but wasn't Clinton opposed to the Vietnam war? A second

Re: Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Amy Goodman of Pacifica's Democracy Now interviewed John Strange, the dissident who was interviewed at Ohio State. He said that the people on the main floor were hand picked: ROTC students, army officers, safe academics. The people in the balcony began heckling. CNN people asked them to stop. W

Amerikkkan Democracy at work...

1998-02-20 Thread Dennis Grammenos
>From p.14 of the Chicago Tribune (Friday, 20 February 1998) in an article titled "Message masters fail to deliver" (continued from front page)... It is talking about how the White House is downplaying the OSU fiasco. Quoted is White House spin-meister Harold Ickes, former deputy chief of staff