[lbo-talk] A liberal geek defense of Ron Paul

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 12:08:02 PST 2012


CB: To posture as if Obama's admin has been some huge "betrayal"

[WS:] Betrayal? Methinks he pulled a King Dimitrios - an actor who took off his costume and departed. http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=101&cat=1

Wojtek

When the Macedonians deserted him and showed they preferred Pyrrhos, King Dimitrios (a noble soul) didn’t behave —so they said— at all like a king. He took off his golden robes, threw away his purple buskins, and quickly dressing himself in simple clothes, he slipped out— just like an actor who, the play over, changes his costume and goes away..

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Still, there as this:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4988344&page=1&singlePage=true
>
>
>> Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it. It's understanding that the struggles facing working families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a tax break, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation. It's understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was President.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
>
> There were some words, too.
>
> Doug
>
>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB: To posture as if Obama's admin has been some huge "betrayal" ( of
> the rev) of these words is social democratic/ultra-left/Meneshvik
> FRAUD AND PREVARICATION , demagogy.  Basically, the Modern Menshevik
> position is that Obama did not single-handedly institute stronger
> Keynesian ( bourgeois "socialist") measures.   What a joke.
>
> Who do u Mensheviks think u r fooling ? U don't have a socialist
> program.  U r not chastising O with failing to win (single- handedly)
> a socialist or Marxist program.  U r chastising him for not
> instituting Paul Liberal Krugman's program.    F R A U D !!!
>
> And what goddamn American President ever fulfilled all their campaign
> promises , unless it was bad stuff ?  U hold Obama to a standard
> higher than the country has ever had.  Same ole racist story. Black
> professionals held to higher standards than whites. Teddy Roosevelt
> did not win the Presidency , let alone institute 8 hour day, women's
> suffrage and unemployment insurance.
>
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