I agree with Shane. The DLC handlers of Obama do not want a progressive mass movement that would challenge the current Democratic Party allegience to the greed heads, who Reich dubs the new plutocracy. So we have the carrot plutocrats and the stick plutocrats, and we are getting beaten with the stick while the Dems wave a limp carrot.
-Chip
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> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Shane Mage
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 12:33 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye
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>
> On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:46 AM, c b wrote:
> >
> > ^^^^^
> > CB: Pretty sure he [Obama] is trying to continue to be a superb
> > speaker just like everybody agreed he was just a little while back.
> > He's still speaking superbly, but the monopoly media has
> changed its
> > frame on him.
>
> Two years ago the whining was to the effect that the
> "lamestream" (or "monopoly" now) media had "framed" to the
> benefit of Obama (now the Tea people). What cb doesn't
> understand is that a president can at any time address the
> people directly (via nationally televised "reports to
> Congress on the State of the Union") and with the full
> technological resources of the medium at his disposal. That
> Obama refused to do so--except for two ritual occasions--says
> everything you need to know about his political priorities.
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "I'll do whatever I want, and they can go to hell." (Harry
> Truman, the day after the 1946 rout)
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