Max, now it's a triple post. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > sorry for double post. second one is the official version. > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am convinced that this >> decision offsets anything historically progressive that Obama may >> accomplish -- if at all. >> ******************************** >> >> I am 3/4's of the way there. LBJ did a lot of good on the domestic side, >> even as he extended a disastrous foreign policy. Obama is way behind >> the pace on the domestic front, thus far. >> >> Health care is going to suck, but that's a project. You have to pass >> something, >> then keep working at it. It will be revised as we go. If our >> politics get worse, the >> program will too. Financial regulation is going to come to naught, IMO. >> That's already a lost cause. It was lost from the beginning. >> >> From my bunghole, US foreign policy sucks eggs, all the way around. >> If we go on some deficit-reduction toot including "entitlement reform," >> I am off the rez. >> >> All this 'why are you surprised' stuff is tedious. Nobody is surprised. >> The possibility for Obama was an FDR-lite record. FDR looked awful >> going in as well, and stayed awful for much longer than BHO has been >> in office. >> >> An LBJ path is much more dubious, though still not out of the realm of >> possibility. At best, going down this road will still have tragic >> consequences. >> > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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