[lbo-talk] Guardian: Obama prepared to talk to Hamas

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Jan 9 18:48:24 PST 2009


On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:56:15 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> This is unfair to Obama. He has not swindled anyone. He has been quite
> clear on his rightist politics for years but large numbers of people
> have refused to believe him, therebv swindling themselves. But Obama is
> quite innocent of this .

Oh Carrol, you sentimental softie, you. There's plenty of blame to go around. It's certainly true, as you say, that Obama's cheerleaders swindled themselves -- over and over again -- but it's also true that Obama, that way-cool no-fool, knew just how to play 'em.

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