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[Hodge, a former editor at Harper's, has got it right - what some of
us in AWARE have been saying since Obama's visit to C-U five years
ago. He even uses the title we've employed on occasion. “Hodge
skillfully draws the veil from Obama’s allegedly reformist agenda to
expose the reality of the programs to ensure that no major
stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will suffer
significant losses, and will even enjoy spectacular gains — the
perfection of the long right turn of the Democratic Party since the
1970s, as financialization of the economy led to shedding New Deal
commitments so as to compete with the Republicans for corporate
patronage. He calls for a revitalization of the founding tradition
of civil virtue and republican values of liberty, a message that
should be taken to heart if we are to reverse the drift toward an
ugly future.” --CGE]<br>
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<i><b>The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of
American Liberalism<br>
</b></i>by Roger D. Hodge<br>
<br>
This is what I’ve been waiting for—a profound and hard-hitting
critique of the Obama administration from the left! The Mendacity of
Hope should help wake up all those Obama voters who’ve been napping
while the wars escalate, the recession deepens, and the environment
goes straight to hell.”<br>
<br>
—Barbara Ehrenreich<br>
<br>
“Ready to wake up from the Obama dream yet? If so, this thrillingly
scathing and relentlessly truthful cri de coeur is your strong cup
of coffee. Hodge skewers the sloppy intellectual culture that willed
this political chimera into being, while expertly unmasking the
corporate machine that is the real Brand Obama. Drink up.”<br>
<br>
—Naomi Klein<br>
<br>
“An eloquently sober indictment of the corruption which impels the
self aggrandizement of our executive branch, much to the bane of our
Constitution. A frightening book whose conclusions ought to haunt
every American.”<br>
<br>
—William T. Vollmann<br>
<br>
“Roger Hodge has written a desperately needed exposé of how Barack
Obama is not the messiah of liberalism but its designated
gravedigger—he is one of the all too few voices on the progressive
side who dares to tell the truth about the corporate masters this
administration actually serves, and the dire effect of that
allegiance upon what is left of our Republic. This is a blazing
indictment of corporate collusion and a bracing injection of hard
truths.”<br>
<br>
—Naomi Wolf<br>
<br>
“Hodge skillfully draws the veil from Obama’s allegedly ‘reformist
agenda’ to expose the reality of the programs ‘to ensure that no
major stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will suffer
significant losses,’ and will even enjoy spectacular gains—the
‘perfection of the long right turn’ of the Democratic Party since
the 1970s, as financialization of the economy led to shedding New
Deal commitments so as ‘to compete with the Republicans for
corporate patronage.’ He calls for a revitalization of the founding
tradition of civil virtue and republican values of liberty, a
message that should be taken to heart if we are to reverse the drift
toward an ugly future.”<br>
<br>
—Noam Chomsky<br>
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