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

[Alan Rudy]

But that's a different argument.  You're now arguing that such folks couch
their criticisms within the reasonable bounds of liberal discourse.  That is
not an argument that they sorta knew better than to get more Rooseveltian
hopes up before the election... even if, in the back of their minds there
might have been doubt given what they otherwise knew about Obama, his
background and associates.  And, even if they sorta knew better, that
doesn't mean they didn't get their hopes up anyway, eh?
A

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sep 19, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> > Doug, then what's up with folks like Krugman w/r/t his post-War liberal
> > critiques of Obama's capitulation, weakness, etc.?
>
> Whaddya mean, what's up? From my experience with another prominent
> left-liberal economist, people like this sorta know better but don't want to
> go so far that they'll get kicked out of the club. So they contort
> themselves into knots of self-deception and end up saying the silliest
> things.
>
> Doug
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