[lbo-talk] Obama-mania: where is the true danger?

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 8 12:56:47 PST 2008


Dwayne wrote:


>We see it in the wider world when people say that enthusiasm for
>Obama is politically useful because it creates "hope" and even if that
>hope is dashed, the savviest argue, the fact that hope once existed
>means future demands will be made - a soft version of that ancient
>illusion of "heightening the contradictions".

My fellow Americans, I end tonight where it all began for me- I still believe in a place called Hope. God bless you, and God Bless America. Clinton's acceptance speech '92 Democratic Convention

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton's_acceptance_speech_to_1992_Democratic_Convention



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