from SLATE, 11/22/008:
>The NY [TIMES] argues that the [Hillary Clinton] appointment—along
with Geithner's appointment to the Treasury and former NATO
commander James Jones' likely selection as national security
adviser—suggests that Obama will be a pragmatic, center-right
president. "This is the violin model: Hold power with the left
hand, and play the music with your right," notes one former Clinton official.<
Of course. And what will happen is 4 years of ineffective, centrist
bullshit that will make the misery of the American people only 90
percent of what it would be under the Republicans. And in the next
election, the Republicans will run a demagogic campaign that promises
to fix the mess that the Democrats made. A Republican president will
then push politics 30 degrees to the right making people just as
pissed off as they were under the Democrats. And in 2016 the
Democrats will nominate DLC'er Harold Ford who the Nation Magazine
will support because he is not as bad as Mitt Romney or whoever. This
is like being stuck in a Samuel Beckett play that has no conclusion.
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