On 2010-09-21, at 4:49 PM, c b posted:
> http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=15364
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> By Jack Lessenberry
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> He should have been doing what his fellow
> elitist Franklin D. Roosevelt did with such great political success
> and effect — class warfare.
All the more so in the case of the Obama administration, which, apart from its own failings, has had to centrally contend with white racism. There's every reason to suppose large numbers of white workers would have subordinated their racist impulses to their class interests and identifed with Obama if he had launched a forceful attack on the banks and corporations as the source of the economic distress felt by all working people, black and white. As it stands now, white workers perceive Obama as representative both of the white elite and of the black underclass, unmindful of their own needs. In retrospect, Jim Webb, the only Democrat who touched on the theme of black and white unity along class lines, would have been the Democrats' better choice as vice-president in the present circumstances. But the dominant conservative wing of the party tied to Wall Street and the corporate lobbies would almost certainly see the party defeated rather than stoking class antagonism, which, in fact, is what lies in store. The multi-hued working class base of the party could, on the other hand, almost certainly be counted on to embrace the notion of a rainbow coalition.