[lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards

[Charles Peterson]

Since it's become clear to me what a fake progessive
Obama is, even by Democrat standards  (anti-union,
Social Security privatizer, anti-national-healthcare,
pro-military-expansion, pro-bomb-wherever,
anti-partisan, anti-anti-racist, etc.), perhaps even
more of a GOP enabler than Clinton because of all the
post-partisan feel-good nonsense, gimme shouting James
Carville anyday,  I was outraged when Kucinich swung
his
(few-but-highly-symbolic-to-uninformed-progressives)
Iowa supporters toward Obama.  Last week on Bill
Moyer's Journal Kucinich simply dodged the question
why he did so.  But today in a supporter email, he did
give a rationalization.  What do you think about this?

 (He's trashing Edwards rather than blessing Obama.)

Quoted from Kucinich email:

"In answer to your questions about why I didn't
support former Senator John Edwards on the second
ballot in Iowa: I have serious concerns about his
connections to a Wall Street hedge fund, Fortress
Investment Group. While attacking others for accepting
campaign money from Washington lobbyists, he is up to
his ears in money from Wall Street special interests.
He made half a million dollars in a single year for
attending a few meetings for Fortress and has invested
a substantial part of his own personal wealth in the
hedge fund whose portfolios are responsible for
sub-prime predatory lending practices, Medicare
privatization, and an entire range of corporate sharp
dealings that are driving the middle class into
poverty."

End of quotation from Kucinich

Of course, Kucinich could have said nothing and simply
let his supporters decide for themselves what to do.

Charles

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