[lbo-talk] Evaluating the Obama administration (Was: Warren is in...)

[Alan Rudy]

Doug, then what's up with folks like Krugman w/r/t his post-War liberal
critiques of Obama's capitulation, weakness, etc.?  You, yourself (I think),
have regularly noted that many liberals saw in and heard from Obama what
they wanted to see rather than what he was and was saying....
Even more than that, while Marv lists liberals of notable stature, I'd say
the rose-colored glasses were even more tinted w/r/t committed Democratis
who see themselves as progressive liberals.  Does this not describe San
Francisco, Portland, Seattle, the Upper West Side, Newton, Mass, and just
about every major university and small college town acriss the country?  It
sure describes East Lansing and Ann Arbor...
These groups were Obama's base, though the election was pretty clearly won
by the anti-Bush swing voters... and he's pretty clearly lost the latter and
lost luster in they eyes of the former (even as just about everyone here
knows they shouldn't have expected much of anything else.)
A

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> 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
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