Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's

["Lybbie" <lydonr>]

Wow I'm surprised to see this kind of message appear on this list.
I don't post very often at all but I always thought politics was discussed 
pretty freely here.
When did it change?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jane Sooby" <jane>
To: <babel-list>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's


> Sorry to be a buzz kill but this thread is entirely off topic, given the
> topic is Patti Smith, and it's filling up my inbox with a bunch of crap.
> Please cease and desist. Is this list not moderated?
>
> Thank you for returning to the topic at hand, Patti Smith!
>
> Jane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-babel-list
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> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 10:40 AM
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> Subject: Re: Here comes the EGO-MANiac again - Ralph's
>
> Gart, Mitchell (Mitchell.Gart) wrote:
>>
>> But he didn't and now he's going to
>> try to screw things up again.  Unforgiveable.
>
> And this year, with a deep division in the Democratic
> Party over the nomination running 50-50, a whole lotta
> progressive folks are going to be walking around this
> Fall after the convention feeling at least disenchanted
> and disenfranchised, to say nothing of bitter.
>
> So Saint Ralph has the best shot he's had since 2000 at
> scraping some scum off the top of the pond. Which is good
> for him, because even though he's had eight years to build
> something resembling a viable 3rd party, getting people
> elected, participating in debates, etc - you know, *work* -
> he apparently prefers to wait, like a vulture, for a
> bunch of disaffected quasi-liberals to be found alongside
> the road baking in the hot sun. Yum!