[lbo-talk] Great essay from Adolph Reed Jr.

[JOANNA A.]

Yes, Taibbi's description was dead on. But the obomber admitted as much, I remember his saying at one point that people see what they want to see in him and he is happy to oblige. 

j 

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On 25/02/2014, at 8:37 AM, "JOANNA A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: 


> http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-long-slow-surrender-of-american-liberals/ 

This line is a work of art: 

"As the “human cipher” Taibbi described, Obama is the pure product of this hollowed-out politics. He is a triumph of image and identity over content; indeed, he is the triumph of identity as content." 

The important thing though is that he is, indeed, merely the product of the politics of his time, not the agent or cause of any of this. 

Bill Bartlett 
Bracknell Tas 
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