Reply #17: Look, there IS actually a discussion to be had about Counterpunch. [View All]

I've got them bookmarked and I go there a lot. But I have to say that they're the kind of leftists who, during the Clinton years, turned me off of the extreme left. Granted that the Bush years have made me much more politically aware and much more liberal or even radical. But Counterpunch frequently makes me angry with this kind of article. (I read it too.)

In the early nineties I spent some time working for a non-profit who raised money to free South Africa. The other people working there were die-hard "old school" liberals who hated everything Clinton did. When Clinton gave his State of the Union address (I can't remember which one; like '94 or thereabouts) I came in the next day to a bunch of scowling faces. Every one of them hated the speech and explained loftily that it was a "Republican speech."

Out the window of that office, I could see the World Trade Center, every day.

Counterpunch reminds me of those people. They make me angry because they can't seem to absorb the whole spectrum of political thinking. They (like Naderites) actually think that it's possible to get a country like ours at this point in our history to actually adopt a radical globalist position; they are incensed that it hasn't happened yet.

I'm sure that every one of my former co-workers at the non-profit would do anything now to get Clinton back. And I'm sure that Alexander Cockburn and his ilk, under a second Bush admimistration, would do ANYTHING to magically switch to Kerry.

My $0.02