From: "Perelman, Michael" I think that Obama is an empty vessel with great ambition. He thought that he was smart enough to be able to transcend "insignificant" political differences. Lacking any real beliefs and deluded by intellectual arrogance, his idea of victory would be creating some kind of agreement, even if it would be a surrender of anything that he pretended to be. He brought in people who knew how to get stuff done: Summers, Emmanuel, etc. How could he not know that this Democratic Leadership Council strategy would be a political disaster?
^^^^^ CB: mmmmmm what r u thinking ? u'd think O's campaign was not _very_ centrist and Clintonoid, i.e. close to the DLC. What campaign were u watching ? Obama sure didn't run to the left of the DLC or Bill Clinton. Please name one Obama campaign statement by Obama that criticized Bill Clinton's Presidency . And , oh, he won running like a Clintonoid. Why would he think it would be a political disaster to continue Clintonism. ^^^^^ In the end, Obama's legacy will be to legitimize some of the worst elements of the Republican agenda and to discredit anybody in the future who tries to call for progressive change. Our last three Democratic presidents have all been pretty smart and total disasters. All three caved when faced with opposition. Obama, however, is the worst of the bunch, taking pride in his courage to attack the relatively powerless forces calling for a modicum of decency. ^^^^^ CB; Worse than Clinton ? What are u thinking ? mmmm mmmm All that stuff Clinton did. m m m. Please name one thing O has done like NAFTA or welfare deform. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
