On Sep 19, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> They did not expect the administration to capitulate to the Republicans and the bankers, and they were not - from a bourgeois standpoint, and despite the verities of many on the left - ridiculously utopian to expect it to be otherwise.
Sure they were. C'mon, Marv, Obama himself showed no tendencies to buck the system that had made him, and he made that very clear by how he campaigned and the people he surrounded himself with. That, plus the absence of any serious popular movement (except the fan club that constituted his former base), made the outcome not at all a surprise.
Doug