> Marv Gandall
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>> 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.
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> 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.
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: Well, "its own failings" is a loaded phrase in this context. Obama
> and the Democrats are down in the polls because of "failings" the Tea
> Party , right-wing liars, demagogues and racists attribute to him, not
> because of the left criticisms you make below.
Do you expect your claim to be taken seriously
^^^^^ CB: Uhhhh yeaah. I'm not doing Gaga socialism on this thread.
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- that the widely reported disappointment of Democrats and others with the Obama administration is, in essence, without foundation and the result of having been duped by the "Tea Party, right-wing liars, demogogues and racists"?
^^^ CB: No , I think the reported Republican lead in the Congressional election polls is due to the Tea Party etc. shananigans ,not due to Democrats' disappointment with Obama. Most of the Dems who voted for Obama don't have the left positions you describe and aren't going to vote for Republicans.
The Democrats and Obama are down in the polls because they didn't do what the left says.
You don't seem to have an accurate assessment of most Democrats. Most Democrats are not to the left of the Obama Administration.
As to "others" , they're Independents who are susceptible to Tea Party demagogy .
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Do you have any criticisms to make of the administration's performance, any at all?
^^^^^ CB: Yes, and I've made them on the lists before. The main two would be sending more troops to Afghanistan and supporting right-wing school policy; supporting or engineering the coup in Honduras; saber rattling at Iran.
These sure don't imply voting for Republicans or Tea Partiers in November.
But most of our time should _not_ be spent criticizing the Obama Administration, but rather the Republicans and Tea Partiers. We need a threat "Evaluating the Republicans and Tea Partiers"