> Speculation; (The only grounds for this stretch of the imagination is
> that Obama is not by any means stupid, and he must know most of the
> things that are being written here. Hence, the speculation goes, one
> needs to search/stretch for some less visible or banal reason than, for
> example, merely wanting to be like or merely wanting a vote or two more
> in Congress.)
>
> In the part of thinaugural address quoted on this list Obama launches
> into a rather shrill insistence of the goodness of markets. (I didn't
> read further; that is more than I've listened to any inaugural since
> 1965). Such a defense doesn't _really_ seem to be needed either. There's
> no visible socialist (even social-democratic) movement in the world
> today. There is no threat to markets.
>
> OR DOES OBAMA AND HIS FRIENDS IN RULING ELITES think there MAY BE a
> threat to markets? Are they, in some way, more threatened than any of us
> are hopeful (leaving asidd the pollyannas that put their hope in China
> etc.). Do they know or think they dknow something we don't?
>
> As I said, mere speculation to which I am not particularly attached
>
Let's try not to overthink this.
SA