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Progressive Myopia on Obama | 61 comments (61 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Progressive Myopia on Obama (none / 0)

The problem is, I can't tell whether Clinton or Obama is more corporationist. The powers that be seem happy to take either one. Edwards is the last standing candidate that they don't want.

We've had a handful of primaries. The majority of the country hasn't voted, but liberals are ready to write him off. At the very least, I want Edwards to stay in the race till the end to give us some pull towards the left.

Land of the watched, because of the cowed.

by hens teeth on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 05:24:46 PM EST
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Re: Progressive Myopia on Obama (none / 0)

what makes me laugh is that so many people expect Obama to talk like Edwards when we should all be able to see what happens to even a white former vp candidate that tries that anti-corporate tack. How much sooner would Obama meet the fate of Edwards?

by BooMan on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 05:44:18 PM EST
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Re: Progressive Myopia on Obama (none / 0)

Wow, are we ever on the same wavelength here.

But maybe I should cut Edwards a little slack. I just remember his reputation when he was in the Senate (a real "up and comer") AND how he voted when he was there. I didn't know his backstory (Dad worked in a mill) until he was on the Kerry ticket. Maybe he really was doing what he felt he had to do, I dunno. The jury is still out with that one, so to speak.

Either way, I really wish he was in the Senate rather than the cretins that are there now.

Presumptuous is the new uppity.

by AP on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 06:23:16 PM EST
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One big difference between (none / 0)

Hillary and Obama, which for me is crucial, is that he has refused money from Corporate PAC and she has taken lots. Even letting Rupert Murdoch fund raise for her.

by Moonwood on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 05:48:25 PM EST
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Re: Progressive Myopia on Obama (none / 0)

Well, there is quite a track record there with Hillary and all those who she surrounds herself with. They say you know someone by the company they keep.

I think that speaks volumes. Follow the trail of breadcrumbs and find where it leads.

As for Edwards, he might hang in there. But he is done, don't you think? Where can he go from here? He can stand in on principle and try to frame the debate when he can, but he will get zero media exposure. Hell, when his campaign was still within striking distance early on, he got nothing. Have to face facts. The media fragged him. He was a pariah to them from the start. And that, along with some of his own stumbles has, I'm sorry to say, doomed his campaign. I liked him. I hoped he would be a major player. I would have voted for him. We need his voice in this campaign. But we never got to hear it, and we never will.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Mon Jan 21st, 2008 at 06:24:12 PM EST
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