[lbo-talk] Fwd: Noam goes with Barry ?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

In spite of his attenuated hopes in 2008, Chomsky has not hesitated to  
point out how "Obama is in many cases worse than George Bush and Tony  
Blair -- on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt -- and would be  
indicted for war crimes if the Nuremburg principles were applied."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mA4HYTO790

On Mar 11, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
>>
>> ...Chomsky in 2008:
>>
>> "The political spectrum is quite narrow, and it is of some  
>> significance that on a host of major issues, both political parties  
>> are well to the right of the general population. Nevertheless,  
>> there are differences, and in a system of huge power, small  
>> differences can have large effects. The Bush administration is far  
>> to the radical ultranationalist extreme of the spectrum, and it has  
>> caused so much damage to the interests of state-corporate power  
>> that there is likely to be a shift towards the center, less so with  
>> McCain than with Obama, who will probably be a Clinton-style  
>> centrist Democrat."
>>
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