From: "Michael Nuwer" <[email protected]>
Carrol Cox wrote: > Obama is now and has always been a principled and determined advocate of > the Austerity Age. Why can't liberals believe that he is what he claims to > be. "As Governor of New York [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt had been a conservative Democrat and a good pal of Wall Street. By 1935 he understood ? it had been made clear to him that if he wanted to be re-elected ? he had to begin to meet the needs of the people, instead of the wishes of Wall Street. He was re-elected three times. When he died in 1944, he had become a moderate lefty. "... If a conservative Democrat (as FDR was when first elected) could become an increasingly strong liberal in his second, third, and fourth terms in the White House, it is entirely possible that Obama could. That means we must become politically involved seriously. We have a lot to do, both to help Obama to change his ways and to get people like ourselves to work for him." Doug Dowd http://www.dougdowd.org/articlesAndCommentary/pdf/ThreeCheersForTheOccupiersAndTheirSupporters_NowWhat.pdf ^^^^^^ CB: Not to mention that in 2008 Obama was not a conservative Democrat for this era and not a good pal of Wall Street. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
