[lbo-talk] how the heartland feels now that we're all socialists

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 16 05:37:06 PST 2009


http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2009/02/16/alexandra_pelosi/

Q: You met so many people. Were there interviewees who have given you feedback after the election? What are they saying?

A: They're really unhappy that Obama won. And they're really having a hard time dealing with this whole economic stimulus package. They're totally opposed to that kind of government. I talked to people who had bad holidays, who had a hard time getting through the inauguration, are disappointed in their country, are sad about the direction this country is going. And it's not getting better, it's getting worse. They're looking at this, "We're all socialists now," and they're not laughing. The Newsweek cover, “We're all Socialists Now”, I got like literally a dozen calls the day that Newsweek came out. I don't know what Newsweek's intentions were, but that is terrifying to a lot of people.

[WS:] Obama's presidential campaign - $195 million. Obama's stimulus package - $800 billion. Right wing populist nuts running scared - priceless. For everything else, there is the Mastercard.

Wojtek



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