Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-09 Thread Louis Proyect
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

Re: Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-09 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
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 confusing ballots in West Palm Beach, the real story seems t

Re: Re: Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-09 Thread Jim Devine
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

Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-08 Thread Justin Schwartz
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 the

Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-08 Thread Jim Devine
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

Re: Re: Perfecting the one-party system, and antidotes

2000-11-08 Thread Chris Burford
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.