[lbo-talk] Kuchinich explains backing Obama over Edwards

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Tue Jan 8 03:35:46 PST 2008


Obama is against SS privatization and favors a health care plan much like the others. There's no indication of him being anti-union.

There are reasons to be apprehensive of him, so it would be best to focus on those reasons, accurately.

Charles Peterson wrote:
> 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.)



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