Why _do_ people want to keep repeating what is really obvious, in fact I would say the given. Obama is a true friend of capital. Capital is the enemy of humanity. O.K. Given.
Why keep scratching that scab? I really want to know: I'll still disagree about it, but I want to have some sense of why people do it. I do not think 'criticizing' Obama in any way advances left politics. I remember back in 1943 or so a bit of filler in the Readers Digest: "Help the war effort: Call Hitler by his right name: Shcckelgruber." Criticisms of capitalism or of u.s. policy or of Obama on this list really seem to me to belong to the same genre as the filler in the Readers Digest.
Carrol
Carrol
On 7/12/2011 2:30 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> ``And yet who living in this riven, confused, semi-paralyzed country of
> ours truly believes that, in 2011, Americans can achieve whatever we set
> out to accomplish? Who thinks that, not having won a war in memory, the
> U.S. military is incontestably the finest fighting force now or ever
> (and on a "climb to glory" at that), or that this country is at present
> specially blessed by God, or that ours is a mission of selfless
> kindheartedness on planet Earth?''
>
> Tom Engelhardt
>
> http://counterpunch.org/engelhardt07012011.html
>
> It's comentary on Obama's speech a couple of weeks ago, which I forced
> myself to watch just to see if he would say something. He didn't as you
> can tell from the above.
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