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MenacingToad

- 20 Apr 08
- 9:10 pm
I didn't attend the Left Forum this year (or last) and Ken Brociner's article didn't give me any information about what I might have missed. It did tell me how uncomfortable Ken feels in certain left circles, but that in itself is not particularly interesting, unless perhaps, you know Ken personally (I don't). Maybe the idea of Ken listening to a panel on Venezuela or Iraq is inherently funny. Who knows? A different, more interesting article would have covered the two conferences with the same attention to detail. Keynote addresses could have been compared. We could have been treated to an …

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- 23 Apr 08
- 9:32 am
Thanks for your thoughtful responses, Ken. But ultimately the problem with the article is that you covered one conference as a booster for their agenda while using the other as a straw man to attack. A little more balance could have left a progressive reader with the sense that this is a period of ferment on the Left. There is a lot to talk about (and do) on the immediate horizon and on the medium and long term as well. I guess that's the article I hoped to see.

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- 12 May 08
- 7:28 am
Laura Washington writes: "At the Feb. 26 debate... [Obama] cheerily told voters that he is no liberal. Yet Obama is the only wall between 100 more years in Iraq and economic disaster at home." Really? This is the last election until 2108? Oooooh, that's scary! Honestly Laura, you'll have to try a wee bit harder to get me to pull the lever for a Democrat who's a self-described non-liberal. Now what exactly were those political differences between Obama, Nader and third party candidates that might help a lefty make her decision? Nader: 12 Political issues that matter for 2008: http://www.votenader.org/issues/ Obama: …

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