Louis Proyect wrote: > http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/25/obama-defies-base-hires-wall-street-lobbyist-for-re-election-campaign/ > > Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign > By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller 12:02 AM 10/25/2011 > > President Barack Obama’s new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall > Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president’s > aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently “occupying” New York > City’s Zuccotti Park.
the logic of the US two-party system -- and the accompanying ideology of the "lesser of two evils" -- suggests that even if Obama appoints almost anyone to his staff and his supporters could find someone worse on the GOP candidate's staff or something worse in his or her platform to justify voting for Obama. The leftists and liberals who support Obama are a captive audience: he can blatantly ignore their values and interests without suffering any significant electoral consequences. He might lose some enthusiastic grassroots supporters, but the only one whose strategy relies on that kind of base is Ron Paul. -- Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
