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Quite frankly, I think Jerome is a bit too authentically left for American tastes.

Oh, he is beloved when he writes to liberal America's prejudices with respect to the envirnoment and energy policy, but nearly every time he writes about socio-economic policy or poverty matters, it's quite another thing over there.

Let's face it, it's a center-right site for partisans of a center-right political party, and now that those Democratic partisans have apparently been delivered from the evil of Dubya, the site is quickly devolving into the partisan hackery it already was somewhat prone to.

It's too bad, but it is what it is.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 12:40:44 PM EST
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Oh, he is beloved when he writes to liberal America's prejudices with respect to the envirnoment and energy policy, but nearly every time he writes about socio-economic policy or poverty matters, it's quite another thing over there.
On the famous hunger in NYC thread, I had the following exchange:
Good, why not go back to writing about positives

then?

Write about energy.

Inspire people to do something about it.

...

Write about energy?

Poor Jerome, you guys have pigeonholed him into a narrow role and every time he steps out of his little box or says something off-message he gets wacked over the head.

by Migeru

He googled problems, why not google solutions?

That's what's so off-key about his diary today.

...



Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 01:15:51 PM EST
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Yeah, I saw that and got a chuckle.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:10:40 PM EST
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There are quite a few of us who very much appreciate Jerome.  With tens of thousands of users there are many who are centerists and center-rightists, but dkos is really where the fight needs to be had.  There are many who try to move the whole damn thing in a progressive direction.

We haven't been released from the W thralldom yet, and we are at best at the end of the beginning of a move back toward respectability.

I'm interested to see how many European governments fall due to their cooperation with the ghost flights.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:06:32 PM EST
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"I'm interested to see how many European governments fall due to their cooperation with the ghost flights."

None!

We ain't in the 60's and 70's.

by Euroliberal on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 07:17:00 AM EST
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Sadly, you're right

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 7th, 2006 at 07:18:29 AM EST
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My most polemic diaries have also been those that were recommended by the most people - a sign, in my view, of latent frustration by a number of people, and something that can be used to bring forward some "subversive" ideas.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Dec 6th, 2006 at 03:12:42 PM EST
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