Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance by Jeff Cohen

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sent by Sparrows since 75 days 16 hours 30 minutes, published about 74 days 23 hours 6 minutes
With Obama pushing a huge troop escalation in Afghanistan, history may well repeat itself with a vengeance. And it's not just the apt comparison to LBJ, who destroyed his presidency on the battlefields of Vietnam with an escalation that delivered power to Nixon and the GOP. There's another frightening parallel: Obama seems to be following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, who accomplished perhaps his single biggest legislative "triumph" - NAFTA - thanks to an alliance with Republicans that overcame strong Democratic and grassroots opposition. Today, it's crucial to ask where Obama is heading. From the stimulus to healthcare, he's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives in Congress on his way to corrupt legislation and frantic efforts to compromise for the votes of corporate Democrats or "moderate" Republicans. Meanwhile, the incredible shrinking "public option" has become a sick joke. As he glides from retreats on civil liberties to health reform that appeases corporate interests to his Bush-like pledge this week to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, an Obama reliance on Congressional Republicans to fund his troop escalation could be the final straw in disorienting and demobilizing the progressive activists who elected him a year ago.
tags: obama, gop, clinton, nafta, corp corruption
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  1. #1    Right on. Obama will run way to the right in 2012. WE MUST HAVE A PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE. I SAY KUCINICH-AND ROSA WHAT'S HER NAME - THE GREEN PARTY' S VP.
    written by epppie since 74 days 23 hours 26 minutesepppie
  2. #2    Are you thinking of Rosa Clemente, epppie? Mr. K sounds good. I don't know much about Clemente yet.
    written by Sparrows since 74 days 22 hours 37 minutesSparrows
  3. #3    It's clearly time to start thinking in these terms. The primary challenge must be prepared to mature into a third party challenge. Kucinich is the guy.
    written by orangutan since 74 days 21 hours 10 minutesorangutan
  4. #4    i am glad to see some people are coming around to my way of thinking.Ever since Obama has been elected i have been pointing out his Republican tendencies and his attempt to move the democratic party to the far right.People like PM Carpenter unfortunately a writer for Buzz Flash have continually defended Obama as a Roosevelt clone.Obama is a far from roosevelt as george Washington was from Stalin. As a history major i can tell you liberals and FDR made America the land we all heard about in promises.Liberals built the real America,capitalist built the wealth for the rich and slavery.I said during election time if Kucinich wasn't elected this country would continue going to hell and it has.I don't know now if even electing Kucinich can help with the pay to play congress both ion the Republican and Democratic parties but its either that or revolution.Another 4 years of Obama and we are officially a third world country.
    written by godblessfdr since 74 days 18 hours 21 minutesgodblessfdr
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