--Meritocracy and pragmatic willingness frankly to talk of what works is, FWIW, a big improvement over shameless cronyism and mindless ideological litmus tests.
--The paean to markets in the inaugural speech came alongside comments about how there is a place for governments or regulations and neither government nor markets can function without each other. The person dissecting the speech on NPR interpreted this as an effotr to hew to the center. In other words now-President Obama remains a screen upon which everyone projects their own biases.
DC
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:46 AM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 20, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> >> OR DOES OBAMA AND HIS FRIENDS IN RULING ELITES think there MAY BE a
> >> threat to markets?
> >
> > You may be right. But Barney Frank, who is no dope, would probably be
> > in on the secret.
> >
> > Doug
>
> yeah. Question Carrol: you wrote that surely BHO must know what kinds of
> things are said 'here'. By 'here' I assume you mean that he's aware of
> leftish critique from marxists and heavy users of marx.
>
> If I've understood you correctly, I do have to wonder why Obama should be
> aware of what a leftist/leftish critique of his activities is. I could see
> him being aware of what various democrats and liberals think, but I can't
> see him being particularly aware of how Marxists think and, if he is, my
> guess is that he'd get it quite wrong. I don't know, I just think that
> it's fairly easy to be a very smart person and go through life being
> completely in the dark about leftist/leftish critique of politics in the
> u.s -- or elsewhere for that matter.
>
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