Friday, 9 January 2009

The Obama Betrayal

Set out in detail by Alexander Cockburn.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous9 January 2009 at 16:20

    Great comment on Cockburn's article. Any chnace of posting it here?

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  2. David Lindsay9 January 2009 at 16:24

    Nothing new here, of course, although The First Post published it very rapidly after I submitted it, far more so than with my comments in the past (although they have always been put up):

    "Huge numbers voted Democrat last year because they wanted their country back. The name of that country is America.

    She is the country that long led the world in protecting high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs both against the exportation of that labour to un-unionised, child-exploiting sweatshops, and against the importation of those sweatshops themselves. And she is the country that could until very recently say that she led the world in that she "did not seek for monsters to destroy".

    For she is the country of big municipal government, of strong unions whose every red cent in political donations buys something specific, of very high levels of co-operative membership, of housing co-operatives even for the upper middle classes, of small farmers who own their own land, and of the pioneering of Keynesianism in practice.

    At the same time, those same voters made it clear at exactly the same polls that (in Florida and California) they wanted back the country where marriage only ever means one man and one woman, that (in Colorado) they wanted back the country that does not permit legal discrimination against working-class white men, and (in Missouri and Ohio) that they wanted to preserve the country where gambling is not deregulated. The name of that country is America, too.

    The betrayal of those voters by Obama where appointments are concerned has already cost the Democrats a Senate seat in Georgia, and thus a filibuster-proof Senate majority.

    Midterm meltdown awaits."

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