> What is stranger than all the enthusiasm for Obama is the lbo-talk
>obsession with disliking the enthusiasm for Obama. What is so unusual
>about a Democratic candidate not meeting high progressive standards and
>why do people seem to think he's so much worse than Clinton ?
That ain't the problem. Dwayne's been saying it best for a couple weeks or more, most recently again on Wednesday:
>And if the black polity
>becomes fractured or just paralyzed then there really is no hope for
>anything resembling a progressive movement in the United States.
>
>[...]
>
>The point here is that the Obama machine's glowing meme cloud of
>floating hopes, undefined change, post-engagement with racism and
>bi-partisanship as The Answer (with a good dollop of nationalism
>added) creates an ersatz progressivism which many real progressives
>are eagerly buying at the expense of their hard won common sense.
>
>This is an issue because, win or lose (and let's just assume lose),
>the O machine isn't going away. Capital friendly change-ism - perhaps
>the first great conquest of left politics, such as they are, of the
>still young 21st century, will be with us from now on, working its
>smile inducing magic.
>
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