[Peace-discuss] Kucinich

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think this is right -- Brooks, the NYT et Al. desperately want to prevent the emergence of any class talk. (Clever Obama avoids it for just that reason.) But Cockburn/St. Claire are happy to have it and have excoriated Obama in the past. ("Senator Slither" was I believe Alex' sobriquet for him.)

In today's piece they say, "Young voters see Obama as a break with the past, and he skillfully manages to avoid any substantive positioning that might disabuse them of this belief." It is remarkable that the Republican winner in Iowa, not the Democrat, is by far the more vocal critic of Wall Street.  --CGE

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>Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:06:27 -0800 (PST)
>From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Kucinich  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   For what it's worth, even though I resist finding
>   the election interesting, I do find it interesting
>   that David Brooks of the NYT wants to pronounce
>   Edwards' campaign dead, because "class warfare" is
>   so old-fashioned; but so do Cockburn/St. Clair, who
>   today don't have a critical word to say about Obama,
>   although I presume it's for joy over HRC's defeat.
>   Brooks is also clearly afraid of Huckabee being both
>   appealing and not being "the right kind of
>   Republican," and is rallying the conservative troops
>   to McCain. I would guess that all of this portends a
>   strong (and probably successful) media reaction
>   against both Edwards and Huckabee, who would at
>   least provide some genuine entertainment if they
>   were both to be nominated--but this is not the kind
>   of entertainment that the corporate media wants.
>    
>   DG
>    
>   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/opinion/04brooks.html?hp
>    
>
>   "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
>     FYI. Paul Street sours on Kucinich, and like
>     Nader, prefers Edwards among the rest.  --mmkb
>
>     ZNet | Activism                                    
>     Goodbye Dennis:                                    
>     Kucinich Sells Out to Obama, Inc.                  
>     by Paul Street; Iowa Campaign Report; January 02,  
>     2008                                               
>
>     Barack Obama has excluded himself from the
>     progressive coalition by the statements he’s
>     made, unfortunately.  He’s a lot smarter than
>     his public statements, which are extremely
>     conciliatory  to concentrated power and big
>     business...The people of Iowa and New Hampshire
>     have to ask themselves: who is going to fight for
>     you...Edwards raises the question of the
>     concentration of wealth and power in a few hands
>     that are working against the majority of people.
>      
>     - Ralph Nader, MSNBC, December 17, 2007
>     ... 
>