"Obama and his supporters brusquely dismiss the drawing of sensible inferences from these gestures of admiration as guilt by association. In point of fact, though, the Obamas didnt just associate with Wright. They subsidized him..."
"Obama falsely conflates `democracy' with `the republican form of government' that the Founders preferred as an effective barrier to their ultimate nightmare - popular democracy. He appears not to understand that the nation's constitutional fathers saw republican governance as a bulwark against democracy and a more reliable protector of `property rights' and class privilege than monarchical absolutism. He misses and misrepresents the main reason that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and other Founders argued for a geographically extensive nation-state: to more effectively preserve the tyranny of the propertied few and keep the threat of popular democracy at bay (pp. 87-94)." (Street) There is a lot that could be said here, like why didn't Obama leave his church during the 20 years he went there? Why did he subject his children to listen to that hate speech? But, we already know the answer. Obama also has an anti-progressive-regressive-admiration for Republican governance. It is true Obama would be transformative - though the transformation would be in the wrong direction. Others are judged by the company they keep. Why not Obama? Continued at: --> http://pnews.org/ArT/ZuLu/TranS.shtml
