Krugman forwarded by ravi: >> Look, Obama didn't pose as a Nation-type progressive, then turn on his >> allies after the race was won. Throughout the campaign he was slightly >> less progressive than Hillary Clinton on domestic issues — and more >> than slightly on health care. If people like Ms. Klein are shocked, >> shocked that he isn't the candidate of their fantasies, they have >> nobody but themselves to blame.
Right. But I don't think that Naomi Klein was supportive of Obama to start with -- that is, before the Furman affair erupted. He didn't just get disappointed with Obama. It seems to me that she (not alone, of course) has been critical of leftists who've supported Obama for a while already, and is just using Furman to pursue that line of criticism -- which is based on attributing to them motivations and rationales for supporting Obama that are not theirs but hers. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
