On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Someone wrote me offlist yesterday saying "You really hate Obama, don't
> you?" I don't hate him. But he's just a Democrat, not some quasi-
> revolutionary semi-Messiah. It's the intensity of the delusions
> surrounding him that surround him that drive me crazy. He's not going to
> dismantle the American empire, or move the gini index more than a few
> tenths of a basis point, if that.
All absolutely true. But this is kind of a straw man, no? I mean does anyone on this list believe otherwise?
(Abu Hardsell is kind of the exception that proves the rule -- he's no longer on the list; and he was a sock puppet troll whose obsession was to rile people.)
And beyond this list, does anyone intelligent in the real world believe otherwise? I've yet to run into a single person, no matter how pro-Obama, who wouldn't agree with the following two statements:
(a) there is very little difference between Obama's program and Clinton's; (b) they are both pretty much in the center of the Democratic party.
Michael