[lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa'

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I am aware of Obama's limitations. But it already says
something that the conservative press feels it has to
race bait him as an Ayrab terrorist rather than as a
black man. He's also not quite as centrist as you are
making out -- he's not a Clinton (Bill or Hilary), he
record in Illinois is pretty good; he's now running on
having opposed the war; it's true his style is highly
conciliatory and he opposes conflict and will not
fight hard for things we want and need. But does have
a gift for winning over conservatives without
pandering to them, basically by making it seem as (and
maybe it is true) that he really listens. And the
candidates who support the positions we like --
Edwards to some degree, Kuchinich -- poll in the
single digits and have no choice. So insofar as one is
going to play presidential game at all, at the present
it's Obama or Hilary, and he's way better and has a
far better chance. She's way too polarizing. Usual
caveats about spineless and untrustworthy Democrats.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >> His name - Barack Hussein Obama - will do the
> rest of the work. Is  
> >> there any way a dark-skinned man with a name like
> that could ever  
> >> get elected?
> >
> > But conversely, for that very reason, if he could,
> wouldn't it mean  
> > something?
> 
> Yeah, it'd mean the American people could swallow
> post-political  
> centrism in an all-new wrapper.
> 
> Doug
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