wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]
*rolls eyes to back of head*
good grief. i get back from vacation and get to read romaniticizing bullshit about breastfeeding on the loblist! capitalist pigs hate breast feeding, yanno? coz it combines pleasure, sex, and food and that combination is subversive, doncha know. ferfucksake!
when i was little, i used to sit near my mother’s feet […]
looking for something in the archives of the old blog. i’m thinking i’d like to eventually teach a course for the workers justice center we are getting off the ground here. i want to call the class: your employer hates you. i knew i had used that phrase before, so i looked it up and […]
and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.
after watching this administration do exactly as Glen Ford, Aldoph Reed, Uhuru, Anthony Kennerson, yours truly, and others said he would — reveal himself to be the rightwing shit that he always proudly said he was — i hope ppl like the blogger at reappropriate and people, like sylvia, who argued that obama was more […]
yeah, revolutionary gardening ought to fix this! via Lou Proyect:
Now, before I go any further, I want to take a moment to speak directly to the people of Iraq.
You are a great nation, rooted in the cradle of civilization. You are joined together by enduring accomplishments, and a history that connects you […]
cleaning up my email and came across an inquiry from a reader which i’d somehow missed. at some point, i’d written this:
“Because, remember: socialism is about condescendingly sharing *your* sandwich, not about asking why the other guy doesn’t have a sandwich to begin with. fuck.”
that was a snide comment about a thread on the LBO […]
My buddy Dwayne wrote last night to urge me to listen to Doug Henwood’s latest radio program. Here’s why Dwayne was kvelling: because the author basically gets at what I’ve called “assimilationist black nationalism” — of the sort featured in Lawrence Otis Graham’s _Our Kind of People_:
Hey, if you haven’t already done so, I recommend […]
FAIR’s on the case:
“Corporate media are largely cheering Barack Obama’s early appointment of Clinton-era centrists. Many of these nominees have a distinct record of support for the corporate-friendly NAFTA trade pact, gutting public assistance programs under the guise of welfare “reform,” and pushing various deregulatory policies in the financial sector (including the elimination of the […]
Labor pained: Labor sec. not on econ team
Labor’s low profile in the president-elect’s transition is striking because of unions’ vital role in the general election campaign.
read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15972.html
Barack Obama wasted no time bowing down to his Wall Street financial backers and war-mongering advisors. His cabinet selections represent the same old politics of imperialist wars of plunder abroad and police containment policies against the African and Mexican communities here. It could not be clearer that Obama is, as the Uhuru Movement sums up, […]
Anthony’s keeping a list of all the ways obama continues to tack to the right or undermine claims made in the primary particularly. Here’s another one:
Later Emanuel responded to a question on the Employee Free Choice Act,
a measure backed by organized labor but strongly opposed by business,
saying, “Let me take your question and go somewhere […]
Doug Henwood asked of Andy Stern, why he thinks that the Obama administration is going to give a bat’s eyelash about decent health care, a query posted to a piece from The Note:
Doug asked: from The Note - will someone ask Andy Stern what he hopes to gain by
associating with this gang?
The Note:
Pressure to move, […]
hee hee. back in Florida the *spit* progressives *spit* have quickly declared their next plan of attack is to take care of a couple of democrats that have “given us problems lately”. One is, of course, Joe the Bomber Lieberman.
I’m thrilled to death that the kossack progressives *spit* are going to get one of the […]
well, on the bright side, it’s just an event related bounce. whenever something important happens, opinions bump up. this is quite a bumpg of course but i suspect it’ll be back closer to the old percentages once things settle down.
Two days after Barack Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House, […]
At 11:38 AM 11/6/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
i think it’s the way we fetishize voting and elections in this country,
isn’t it? that voting is actually doing something, and then nothing else is required? it will be interesting to see if they can hold it together. it
would pretty genuinely change american politics if they could, don’t you
think? […]
we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses:
John T wrote: ”
The idea of standing in […]
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/87557?utm_source=embedded_video
it’s a onion mockery of obama’s nice guy stance. it’s bullshit redmeat for all the kossacks who want obama to fight mccain and get mean. still, it slayed me.
dennis takes no prisoners:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-lucky-we-are.html
JIM LEHRER: Good evening. I’m Jim Lehrer.
LEHRER: You may remember me from an earlier age of TV journalism, when we transmitted official lies and propaganda to our educated audience in a very calm, reassuring way. When oil companies weren’t afraid to openly finance our efforts. Well, those days are gone now, lost […]
problemchylde’s blog led me to kai’s blog where kai said something that sounded good, until i thought about it. (from http://www.kaichang.net/2008/07/kety-on-cnn.html )
“Democratic Party politicians are unlikely to grow a backbone until their constituents do”
i wasn’t clear on what growing a backbone means, for obama’s constituency?
a backbone means asking mccain questions, as if you really care […]
man, i was really disgusted when jackson, whose campaign i worked on back in 1988, rolled over and curtailed crits in order to support obama. now i learn, a little late i know, that he’d like to cut off obama’s nuts for talking down to black folks. ha. yay jesse! yay! personally, i’m glad to […]
the wall st journal lurvs obama’s stance on iraq!
Man of Refinement By JAMES TARANTO Nineteen days ago, we speculated about Barack Obama that he would soon abandon his promise to bring about an American defeat in Iraq:
Could it be that Obama is planning to pivot? That is, what if he goes to Iraq and declares […]
i posted this in a thread at lbo’s discussion list. M liked it, so I’m posting it here in case readers might enjoy:
i’m starting to envision the lanky fellah (obama) on a twister mat, with him contorting himself into all kinds of positions. maybe he’ll get contorted enough to suck his own dick, so everyone […]
so, i checked into blogs and i see all these people having meltdowns because some people are expressing a desire to vote mccain or mckinney or abstain this year.
i don’t quite get the meltdown. isn’t that what we’re supposed to do? i mean, if you are progressive and still buy into this sham called elections, […]
I’m not posting this as a question for y’all to help answer, though great if you’d like to add to B’s list below. Rather, I’m posting it because I may just add to it as i have time.
Why the little flurry of posts I shall call “more reasons why obama sux rocks” series? Because I […]
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