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Melissa Bean and the Chicago Way

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Fri, 12/11/2009 - 8:31am — lambert

Nice research job at LittleSis.

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I'm hoping for change.mebbe 50 cents on the dollar in my pension

By sisterkenney on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:27am

Kicking myself for falling for the "hope and change" crap. I knew he was hawkish on Afganistan, but never saw the oversize influence the lobbyists and money-lenders had in his "Temple of trampling people's economic and civil rights". That was an awesome piece of investigative journalism, thanks for the link. Now I will go back to polishing my garden weasel. :-)

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Me too

By lambert on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 11:46am

I saw that Obama got support from Golden Sacks early on, but I thought of them as just another special interest group. Bad analytical mistake on my part.

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She's always been Republican

By Julene on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 1:54pm

she's one of those people we say about politics in Chicago - what do you call a Republican in Chicago? A democrat. Same as Obama. This isn't surprising. This is normal.

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Dems have had several Stealth Candidates recently -- wasn't

By jawbone on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 4:11pm

Bean considered "progressive"?

On Moyer's Journal last night (google it; I can't copy and paste here on Library Land PC's), a community organizer from Chicago, currently focusing on mortgage and general banking problems, said Melissa Bean has been an awful disappointment. As has been Obama....

So, has the Monied Class wanted some social liberalism in their political "friends"? Did they think the Repubs had gone just a tad too fundy and wacky crazy in some areas? Thus, they cultivated and trained such as Bean and Obama?

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"Emergent conspiracy"

By lambert on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 4:42pm

I think it's best to think of TPTB maintaining a portfolio from which they select given opportunity, and not as linear planners.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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portfolio

By hipparchia on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 8:02pm

that strikes me as the best description.

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And we can look especially at factions of the "creative class"..

By lambert on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 8:15pm

... as seeking to become "curated" as part of the portfolio. Not all, but many.

It's not linear, but opportunistic, and TBTB have the resources to invest without every investment paying off right away. And very much "who you know."

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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