On Dec 21, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
More importantly, the practical conclusion from attacking Obama's
policies is that a primary challenge against Obama should be now in
preparation...We can't avoid the issue of personal leadership. Any
political
challenge against Obama would have to be personified to be serious.
Frankly, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, and other
well-known figures of the left are not up to this task. If we exclude
miracles, the personification of the primary challenge to Obama -- if
it's going to emerge -- is most likely to come from inside the
Democratic Party!...
The "primary challenge" to Obama from the left was and is personified
in Dennis Kucinich. There is no alternative in sight. Small as his
height may be, no other Dumbocrat on the national stage (Marcy Kaptur
possibly excepted) comes up to his knees. Unfortunately for Julio
(though emphasizing how "dangerous" even the slightest possibility of
a real contest in the DP primary was and is), Representative Kucinich
has been vilified in the corporate media (including such "leftist"
outposts as the Stewart/Colbert hour) far more and far more
effectively (by pervasive ridicule) than Chomsky, Moore, and Nader
combined. The Dumbocratic Party primary remains the blind alley it
has always been.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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