What is the urgency at this juncture of establishing that good Obama way overwhelms bad Obama?
We're at a crossroads where some people (Team Hillary) are trying to enforce the assertion that Obama represents the outer limit of progressive aspirations. And other people (Team Sanders) are trying to challenge that assertion. Is this the juncture in which you want to assert that good Obama way overwhelms bad Obama? To what end? Btw, Obama has not ended the war on drugs, not by a long shot. Whether Obama has begun the reversal of Reaganism remains to be seen. It depends significantly on what happens between now and the Democratic convention. I'm totally down with celebrating the Iran deal and the Affordable Care Act. But is this the end? Are we done? 29 million people still lack health insurance. What are we going to do about that? Did you notice how as soon as Team Hillary was convinced that they had finished Sanders off, the discussion about insuring the 29 million and debt-free college disappeared? It took them five seconds to pivot to "it's all about defeating Trump." What happened to the positive agenda? Doesn't matter. Trump is evil, that's all you need to know. Did you notice how the people who were telling us five seconds ago that it doesn't matter if Bernie Sanders is elected President because Congress are now saying that if Trump is elected, America is going to be the Third Reich? Shouldn't they have to pick a position on whether it matters who the President is and stick to it? === Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org nai...@justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Charles Brown <cb31...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I criticize the criticizers of Obama. The shortcomings which remain in > Obama's actions are way, way overwhelmed by his historic achievements ( no > war on Iran, Obamacare, two women and only women appointed to Supreme > Court, ended War on "Drugs.", on and on). And as importantly halting the > Reaganite ( so-called neo-Liberal) march and beginning the reversal of > Reaganism, the central political task of the working class in this period. > > > > >
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