From: David Laville on
On 08 Feb 2010 01:39:55 GMT, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

>The fact remains that Bert's original charge--Democrats worked the
>hardest to disenfranchise Blacks--is completely dubious when the racists
>migrated en masse to the Republican party nearly half a century ago.

Wow, really? Why don't you name these "masses" of racist that
migrated to the republican party?
David Laville G.S.E.M.
The Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor
From: Jack Hollis on
On 08 Feb 2010 22:58:59 GMT, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:57:50 -0600, MNMikeW wrote:
>> <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>> news:0cd0n5d7b7js63sc8987hu8897sk565qiv(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:00:18 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Who do you think makes his decisions? Names.
>>
>> Nancy Pelosi
>> Rahm "dead fish" Emanual
>> Andy Stern and his SEIU thugs.
>>
>> just to name a few.
>
>You're delusional.

The legislative agenda is completely in the hands of Nancy and Harry.
Obama isn't even in the loop. Obama will sign anything they send him.
he doesn't even know what's in the legislation.

Other than that, Obama does what Emanuel and his Union bosses tell him
to do.
From: bknight on
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:36:06 -0500, Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com>
wrote:

>On 08 Feb 2010 22:58:59 GMT, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:57:50 -0600, MNMikeW wrote:
>>> <bknight(a)conramp.net> wrote in message
>>> news:0cd0n5d7b7js63sc8987hu8897sk565qiv(a)4ax.com...
>>>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:00:18 -0600, "MNMikeW" <MNMiikkew(a)aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Who do you think makes his decisions? Names.
>>>
>>> Nancy Pelosi
>>> Rahm "dead fish" Emanual
>>> Andy Stern and his SEIU thugs.
>>>
>>> just to name a few.
>>
>>You're delusional.
>
>The legislative agenda is completely in the hands of Nancy and Harry.
>Obama isn't even in the loop. Obama will sign anything they send him.
>he doesn't even know what's in the legislation.
>
>Other than that, Obama does what Emanuel and his Union bosses tell him
>to do.

You know this for sure, right? Just more ultra-right babbling.

BK
From: Carbon on
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:12:10 -0600, David Laville wrote:
> On 08 Feb 2010 01:39:55 GMT, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
>>The fact remains that Bert's original charge--Democrats worked the
>>hardest to disenfranchise Blacks--is completely dubious when the racists
>>migrated en masse to the Republican party nearly half a century ago.
>
> Wow, really? Why don't you name these "masses" of racist that migrated
> to the republican party?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
From: assimilate on

On 8-Feb-2010, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> >> I did a seminar course in literary theory. It was actually pretty
> >> interesting: Kant, Goethe, and yes, Marx, Saussure, Benjamin, Sarte,
> >> Frye, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes, Foucault, Bloom, Achebe, Fish... I
> >
> > Half the list after Marx is derivative of him
>
> Marx is an important historical figure. There is nothing wrong with
> ideas per se, even ideas which are unpopular. And I believe it's wrong
> to dismiss things out of hand without understanding what they are.

I'm with you. And who is dismissing things out of hand?

--
bill-o