[lbo-talk] More premature Obama/FDR comparisons, this time from Newsweek

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 14 14:43:41 PST 2008


On Nov 14, 2008, at 5:24 PM, RCu8598882 at aol.com wrote:


> I quite agree with this observation. It's premature to say that
> nothing
> progressive will come out of Obama before he even takes office. I
> know that
> Alexander Cockburn wrote him off in The Natiion before the
> election because of
> the economists that Obama was talking to, but Alex has little
> regard for
> liberals (and the American left, for that matter). I think that its
> interesting
> that Limbaugh has declared that the oncoming recession, deepening
> as we write,
> is Obama's fault. Just the fact that O was elected, apparently,
> sank the
> economy even more than it had sunk prior to November 4 in Rush's
> view. The right
> is poised to attack with vigor.

Yeah, but do they look dumb and marginal. Rush sounds like a maniac - calling it Obama's recession is thoroughly incredible. The Human Events list is also going on about the Obama bear market. No sane person believes this nonsense.

Doug



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