I'm with Doug on "don't give the guy an inch" - with respect to bad things. It's not in the interest of humanity for Obama to get a "pass" when he does bad things.
On the other hand, I don't think that requires contributing to a general narrative of "Obama = Bush" (which I consider distinct from pointing out that in a particular instance, Obama is doing the same thing as Bush.) I think that there are constructive ways to avoid contributing to that narrative (which I think has a tendency to mis-educate people) without giving Obama a pass for doing bad things. For example, one could denounce Obama for doing bad things, while also praising and even defending Obama when he does good things and is attacked for it for bad reasons. So, if say, he's getting clobbered in the media because everyone suddenly pretends not to understand Keynes 101, one could speak up and say - excuse me, this is Keynes 101, and when it suited you to do so, you pretended to understand it... On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > >> I meant there could come a time when BHO does something unspeakably >> bad that justifies utter condemnation and the launch of uninterrupted >> criticism and denunciation. Kind of like Clinton two months in. But >> I don't think we are there yet. > > I'm with the Republicans - don't give the guy an inch. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
