[lbo-talk] BHO, community organizer

[Alan Rudy]

Obama campaigned on the public option.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/yes_obama_did_campaign_on_the.html
On taxes, he campaigned on ending the Bush tax cuts... and a lot more
http://www.issues2000.org/economic/barack_obama_tax_reform.htm
On climate change, he called it an epochal, man-made threat the addressing
of which is long overdue.
http://www.cfr.org/bios/11603/barack_obama.html#16
He campaigned as a strong supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_Free_Choice_Act
Obama campaigned on encouraging post-election grass-/net-roots involvement.
What Charles says is happening in Detroit notwithstanding, all of the
contact I have received - and everything anyone else I know reports having
received - from the OFA has been in the form of "hey, now that we've done
most all of the work, come out and support our pre-established,
pre-negotiated position."
His education platform was always a nightmare, you're right about that.

This lefty complains about Obama not because he's not pretty much who I
thought he was on most fronts, though he has failed to visibly try to follow
through on any number of things he campaigned on (see above), but because if
he'd followed through on more of them the dynamics of the political
opportunity structure would be different and there'd be more places for more
liberals and lefties to do more effective work.  Unfortunately, along those
limited lines, he's Jennifer Granholm writ large.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> [WS:]  Is not it what he promised in his election campaign?  Passing a
> Republican drafter health care reform?  Voucher-based education reform.
>  Genuflection o the market.  I listened to him at a rally in Baltimore,
> which I attended with a few liberal friends of mine who supported him.  I
> was quite unimpressed, my liberal friends said I was a malcontent unaware
> of
> what is politically feasible.
>
> So I do not understand why the lefties are complaining about. him.  He was
> quite honest - he did what he said he would.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM, <dredmond at efn.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, December 16, 2010 1:20 pm, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Obama certainly knows this. I'm becoming more and more convinced of my
> > > original hypothesis: Obama aimed at something like the actual results.
> He
> > > got what he wanted.
> >
> > Agreed. I never had any doubt Obama would do what he did -- try to patch
> > together a dying Empire with a few bandaids. My only worry was whether
> the
> > semi-periphery would delink in time. But they have. Russia in 2008, China
> > in 2009, Brazil in 2010.
> >
> > As for community organizing, Obama *is* a community organizer -- the
> > organizer of the bankster-centurion-insco community.
> >
> > -- DRR
> >
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