michael perelman wrote: > I do not think Obama is a traitor to the progressive cause because I > do not think he was ever a progressive to begin with.
right. In terms of rhetoric, he's more of a "post-partisan" utopian (i.e., centrist). > My biggest worry about Romney is that the economy may be about ready > to improve on its own, allowing people in the future to claim that the > Romney recovery is proof positive that right-wing policy is the proper > way to run an economy. He could engage in austerity (which is what a lot of people on the left are assuming) or he could follow Ronnie Raygun and Dubya induce a boom based on tax cuts for the rich and increased military spending. It's hard to tell with opportunists. Obama's moving toward BS-driven[*] austerity, not cancelling out the cut-backs made by state and local governments... -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at the very least you should know the nature of that evil. [*] BS = Bowles-Simpson _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
