[lbo-talk] Obama on poverty: straight DLC

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Wed Apr 2 16:41:24 PDT 2008


Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2008, at 7:46 PM, John Thornton wrote:
>
>> It also misdirects the argument away from the point the author of the
>> article Doug cited makes; namely that Obama's position on poverty
>> issues, as defined by the author of the article, is the same as
>> Clinton's.
>
> Max doesn't want to hear that so he's got to change the subject.
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Ha ha. I never said BHO's position on poverty was better than HRC's. I said the DLC tag was bullshit, and nobody has offered counter-argument to the contrary.

ON paper there is little difference between BHO and HRC2008, though on the record there was this funky thang called "Welfare Reform."



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