[lbo-talk] Re: obama-rama-lama, no ding dong

[Joseph Wanzala]

Whatever progressive impulses Obama might have by his actions over the past 
year he has indicated that he plans to follow a path to the right of 
centrist progressives like Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer on foreign 
policy, on domestic policy he will surely do or try do all the usual good 
things Democrats are supposed to do. Why all the fuss about an obvious 
middle-of-the-roader like Obama when an authentic radical like Cynthia 
Mckinney as made a triumphant return to Congress - depite the efforts of the 
DLC and the Republicans cheered on by Pugliese and his 'McKinneySucks' mob. 
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-September/023294.html


>From: frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us>
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>Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: obama-rama-lama, no ding dong Date: Mon, 08 Nov 
>2004 14:59:34 -0800
>
>"am I the only one who was not particularly impressed by him?" (michael
>perelman)
>
>nope...was totally underwhelmed by his keynote speech, much of which
>could have been said by bush...and maybe was, though i didn't read that
>one...
>
>by the way, keynoters frequently produce a kind of collective orgasmic
>response, partly because that's what the job calls for...as in, we are a
>great nation, we strive to do good, especially for one another, and we
>fight for freedom and justice and bla bla bla...
>
>mario cuomo produced an equally "electrifying" keynote at the 1984
>convention, to be followed by jesse jackson's much better, more
>substantial, if at times platitudinal, call to a
>feel-good-about-doing-good nation...
>
>
>we really are nice people, and these speeches occur at times when we are
>most programmed to "feel" them, and in the case of a light skinned black
>local hero - who had the competition (?) of lots of wooden white types,
>obama had it made...
>
>strikes me as same old same old, though a slightly better lesser evil
>than....um...oh well...he'll be willing to kill for peace and bring even
>more lefties and peaceniks with him?
>
>fs
>
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