[lbo-talk] Is Obama Depressed?

[Carrol Cox]

On 9/15/2011 2:40 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>> Hey, he admires Reagan; let's call him "The Great Capitulator".
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> If he admires RR, he's not capitulating - he's following. emulating, promoting.

That seems highly probable to me -- and it does accurately describe the 
_results_ he's achieving. But we are just guessing as to his 'internal' 
state (motives, etc).

A bit of wishful thinking: A Republican elected in2012 will so royally 
fuck up, and the next Dem the same, that out of pure frustration a few 
million will start taking to the streets. And if that happens, a few 10 
thousands will begin to think more deeply about the nature of the 
frustration, the results of the actions, and the possibilities  thereby 
opened, and there will be sufficient differences of opinions among the 
10s of thousands that a democratic (not Democratic) dialectic will 
emerge among them. And then all sorts of possibilties might open up.

Merely a bit of wishful thinking, but who knows.

Carrol

Carrol