tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post434754299827427035..comments2024-03-28T12:50:25.792-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-61769679321247869612019-01-02T18:23:52.494-05:002019-01-02T18:23:52.494-05:00Studebaker says at the end of the linked post that...Studebaker says at the end of the linked post that (I'm paraphrasing) "we need someone who was too left-wing for the Dem Party not just in the 90s but in the 70s," and he says Sanders is the only living politician who fits that description.<br /><br />Bit of an overstatement. Fred Harris, at that time a Senator from Oklahoma, ran a redistributionist-oriented primary campaign for the presidency in '76. He's still alive. Of course, that doesn't refute Studebaker's argument that Sanders is the only one with a chance of getting the nomination who fits into the "too left-wing for the party in the '70s" category.<br /><br />However, Studebaker may be painting w too broad a brush in dismissing all Dem politicians of roughly the Clintons' age as hopeless "triangulators." I just don't know enough about some of them to know whether this is an accurate view of them all.LFCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-2147356658598523332019-01-01T18:42:14.087-05:002019-01-01T18:42:14.087-05:00They call the election a horse race for a reason- ...They call the election a horse race for a reason- they're hard to accurately pick. You like Sanders so you use your body English to make a case that he's a sure win. Nobody saw the Trump voters in swing states coming-emotions are volatile and people are hard to read and might keep their cards close to the table.<br />Even if you give actual analysis and not good vibrations, I'm not convinced it means anything other than which horse you're picking.<br />Howiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12474061778220524205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-68073737242595302132019-01-01T15:55:24.077-05:002019-01-01T15:55:24.077-05:00I'm curious why Kamala Harris is seen as insuf...I'm curious why Kamala Harris is seen as insufficiently left wing. I have been expecting her to be the best bet if Bernie doesn't run.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-41676237552064623562019-01-01T15:40:37.913-05:002019-01-01T15:40:37.913-05:00I wasn't taking your comment as a judgment of ...I wasn't taking your comment as a judgment of him, but as a statement about a demographic state of affairs. Now I see you're referring to the primary results, not current polling.Deannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-60969205737043043362019-01-01T15:20:56.184-05:002019-01-01T15:20:56.184-05:00I was not judging him, just reacting to his poor s...I was not judging him, just reacting to his poor showing vis-a-vis Clinton in the Southern primaries. If he can do better this time, or if he did better than I thought, all to the good.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-23479218222682473732019-01-01T15:10:55.819-05:002019-01-01T15:10:55.819-05:00Sanders "has a serious deficit with people of...Sanders "has a serious deficit with people of color." I hear this, but usually in the context of a refutation, as in this recent post: https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2018/12/27/bernie-sanders-and-women-and-people-of-color/<br /><br />Glenn Greenwald similarly laments that critics of Sanders conveniently ignore the voices of POC who are pro-Sanders. Any idea what the real numbers might be?<br />Deannoreply@blogger.com