Bridging the Enthusiasm Gap: Obama and the Conventional Wisdom

Some of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' have defended him, saying that the times & stakes dictated he do that to make deals. The fact is that the deals Obama's made are lousy deals. Either he's a bad dealmaker, or the deals he's made (pro-corporate, anti-populist) are exactly what he set out to do.



And that's the real key to understanding DLC Democrats & how they operate. They need us to believe that they're not corrupt, not working for Corporations, but are just merely inept. They also need to remain likable & have us believe that they're not so inept that we won't keep voting for them. Even then, should we decide that as likable as an individual DLCer is, he or she is just not capable of achieving our shared objectives & vote them out, the DLC has more in the pipeline to take their place & continue the "ineptitude".



That's how we got Obama; he flew under the radar. We thought we were getting rid of the DLC's frontrunner, Hillary.



Democratic voters, for the most part, still haven't finished their love affair with BillClinton. Like the real debate & assessment of Reagan that's never happened, we've never assessed Clinton's true legacy. Eliminating social welfare safety nets, GlassSteagle, the Telecommun­icationsAc­t of 1996, rendition, privatization, the sanctions & daily bombing of Iraq (& so much more) laid the foundation for what Bush & Cheney did to decimate country. As Alan Greenspan said, "Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had
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