The end of the Cold War meant that the United States had been demoted from being one of two superpowers to being one strong state in a truly multilateral distribution of real power in the interstate system. Many large countries were now able to play their own chess games without clearing their moves with one of the two erstwhile superpowers. And ( Read more... )

RFK on Martin Luther King (Mirror)

I can remember, I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled. But that day is all over. We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.
--Martin Luther KingHere are ( Read more... )

( The largest factor in a Kerry loss will be the 30 million plus voters who won't turn out to vote, not the 3 million who may vote Nader. Why do you inveigh against the smallest factor in the election, when you have a better chance of motivating the largest? )

Now the spectacle is a strident dick-measuring contest over military service records.
--Stan Goff

Kerry served for a little more than four months in Vietnam, winning the medals now being questioned by the Republican attack dogs.
--Bill Van AukenDuring demonstrations outside the Fleet Center in Boston, protesters from the Bl(a)ck Tea Society set ( Read more... )

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( What makes a Nader voter tick? )

Indeed it will. Before I get grumpy, I wish this were mine. Okay, the most pertinent point of last night's Angel: If you make a Faustian bargain, you will lose. Period. Transferring the point to real life, that accounts for the demise of the Democrats. Now, I'm not obsessed with this Nader business. Really I'm not. I came out of the precinct ( Read more... )

( With NBK as their war cry (Nobody But Kerry) we doubt the Democrats have much of a shot at the White House. Already George Bush has winged Mr. Facing-Both-Ways pretty good. Kerry looks like a beaten man to us. If we were advising John Edwards, we'd push for a joint press conference with Nader, welcome him into the race, hail him as a man who knows what's wrong with America and how to mend it. That would make for an exciting political year, and a pretty good chance of ousting George Bush. )

This is a good review from the OC Weekly.