Re: Realclimate deals with Cockburn

["Perelman, Michael" <MPerelman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Brown is much like Bill Clinton without the people skills.  Both began as naïve progressives & than cowered in the corner.  Brown moved far to the rhetorical left before he became a right wing mayor of Oakland.  Now he will be a law and order but moderately progressive attorney general.



Michael Perelman
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Realclimate deals with Cockburn

On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> Cockburn became all
> contrariness and no commitment.

Long ago, he said that he & (the late and much-missed) Andy Kopkind
saw themselves as members of a Chaos Party. Anything that increased
the level of chaos, they were for. Andy told me during the 1992
campaign, when he was publicly writing positive things about Jerry
Brown and his presidential campaign, that he didn't like Brown at
all. But if Brown were to win the Dem nomination, it would have
destroyed the Dem party, and if by some fluke he'd won the
presidency, he would have destroyed the U.S. Which is why he was for
Jerry Brown. Cockburn has a similar impulse - he's for things that
shock.

Doug