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I think your comment is totally out of line.  Clyburn may be tone-deaf but he isn't doin anything but reading the caucus.  And he's done nothing worthy of calling him an Uncle Tom.

I think you should do a little research on his background before you go spouting off about his principles.

by BooMan on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 05:25:01 AM EST
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So you mean to deny that there is any connection between America's slaveholding past and its current neocolonial policy in the Middle East?

I don't know anything about Clyburn, but I don't need to for the point that I was making. I might be tone-deaf myself, but I don't see how at this point anyone can resist a complete withdrawal from Iraq without knowing that what he or she is doing by so resisting is embracing Empire, the idea that America has a right to rule the world. And I don't see how a black person can do that consistently without conceding that maybe slavery wasn't such a bad idea at the time after all.

If you want to argue that there isn't a racist component to American imperialism, be my guest.

Change we can't believe in. No we can't!

by Alexander on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 05:43:51 AM EST
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Clyburn is the Majority Whip. Do you understand what that job entails?  

He's warning his own leadership and also warning us.  

You jump from that to the theory that he has sold out his race?  

by BooMan on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 01:39:13 PM EST
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Sorry. I read the post quickly, so I got the impression that Clyburn was sympathetic to the Blue Dogs, as opposed to issuing a warning about them. You are right that the "Uncle Tom" remark was out of line.

Still, there is some validity to my basic point. Clyburn adheres to the paradigm that the way to end the war is "to pass legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal". This assumes that Democrats owe Republicans something, because the war could be ended without any Republican participation, simply by not passing any (war funding) legislation at all. The Blue Dogs wouldn't come into the picture.

The occupation of Iraq is an absolute evil, like the American institution of slavery. Therefore, I think that it is a grave strategic error, and a significant moral failing, for opponents of the war to give its supporters the time of day.

It is time for Democrats to do what the Republicans have done under Bush: rule the country from their base, without giving the opposition a seat at the table at all. That is what all progressives are yearning for. And yes, I think blacks should be more open to this possibility, given their direct experience that the idea that America has a unified polity based on voluntary consensus is a myth.

Change we can't believe in. No we can't!

by Alexander on Tue Jul 31st, 2007 at 02:20:42 PM EST
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