At 01:48 PM 11/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Oh, and don't forget Gore's pathetic pander
>to the Cuban-Americans on Elian Gonzales.
of course, the fact that I don't forget such things is one reason I voted
for Nader.
BTW, the media pundits trash the US public for not having memories, but if
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t: [PEN-L:4175] Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes
>Burford:
>>So why did Bush win Florida by a whisker only after pledging support for
>>25% of the medicines bill of seniors.
>
>Although the major media has focused on Nader's "spoiler" role and
>con
Burford:
>So why did Bush win Florida by a whisker only after pledging support for
>25% of the medicines bill of seniors.
Although the major media has focused on Nader's "spoiler" role and
confusing ballots in West Palm Beach, the real story seems to be black
disenfranchisement. The racists in b
At 19:19 08/11/00 -0500, Proyect wrote:
>Burford:
> >Bush has ditched Gingrich style confrontation, shifted to a Third Way type
> >of middle position, called "compassionate conservativism", and is quite
> >capable of working with Democrats temperamentally.
>
>http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/US_
A couple of points on this:
Not to mystify the numbers, but this election tracks fairly closely with
political realignments and 36 year election cycles (1860--Lincoln and the rise
of the Republican party; 1896 defeat of the populist movement and subsequent
dominance of the Republican party; 1932
didn't Arianna Huffington used to talk about "compassionate conservatism"
(before she turned aristocratic populist)?
At 07:19 PM 11/08/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Bush's favourite slogan "compassionate conservatism" is no empty jingle -
>it is actually borrowed from a body of work by a pair of obscu
>
>Myron Magnet is cut from similar cloth as Olasky. The conservative prophet
>sports big Dickensian bushy whiskers (apparently inspired by a stay at
>Cambridge University), and a Victorian philosophy to match.
As a Cantabridgean (Kings '82), I take exception to this characterization.
Oxford is
Burford:
>Bush has ditched Gingrich style confrontation, shifted to a Third Way type
>of middle position, called "compassionate conservativism", and is quite
>capable of working with Democrats temperamentally.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,2763,393863,00.h
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