You are being unfair. It is true that a lot of liberals and progressives were fooled by Obama when they really should have known better. I count myself in that group.
I should make one point though: I (and I think most other progressives) was never under any illusion that Obama was going to bring revolutionary change. For e.g., I did not expect Obama to end the war in Afghanistan. I did, however, expect him to be somewhat better than Bush in meaningful ways and that and his race were reason enough to support him. I just never thought he would be nearly as awful as he has turned out to be.. -raghu. ^^^^^^^ CB: The vast majority of people who voted for Obama don't consider themselves fooled. Their notion of hope and change was not PEN-L -style change. This list has the delusion that some significant portion of US Democratic voters have the same ideology as this list -NOT. Most DP voters are not progressives. Secondly, the current critiques act like they have amnesia about a big vote from US voters for Republicans in November 2010. To ignore the vote of the People would be undemocratic. Should have done more to help Dems win in November, if u didn't want compromise with the right. Obama hasn't turned out to be awful. The rich keeping tax cuts is worth it to continue the tax cuts for middle incomed and extending unemployment benefits. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
