[Peace-discuss] More on Obama

[Morton K. Brussel]

The writer, from The Revolution Newspaper  [http://www.revcom.us/a/ 
118/obama-en.html],  evidently feels the Dem presidential nominee  
leaning towards Obama. Hence Obama that is discussed, not the others,  
an Obama who even seems to have the favor of the "right". Obama has  
some qualities which make him preferable to do imperialism's work.

Andrew Sullivan on Obama: The “Best Face” For Imperialism

In an article in the December issue of The Atlantic, commentator  
Andrew Sullivan argues that Barack Obama should be the next president  
of the United States. (“Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters,”  
December 2007). Sullivan writes that a (ruling class) “consensus”  
agenda for endless war and increased repression will be in effect  
regardless of who is president. He challenges the reader to pick who  
could best implement all this in the face of global isolation and  
profound domestic alienation. And, in the process, he sheds light on  
the real role of elections in this society.

Those who are willing to listen in on a ruling class insider’s case  
for Obama, read on.

http://www.revcom.us/a/118/obama-en.html

Civics 101: Your Vote for President “Has Little to Do With” Basic  
Policy Decisions

First, a note on Andrew Sullivan’s credentials: Sullivan writes  
columns for the New York Times, Time magazine, and is a regular on  
the political talk shows. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic  
magazine. Sullivan’s defining political legacy was his tenure as  
editor of The New Republic, where he counted among his big  
achievements the promotion of the book The Bell Curve, a completely  
ridiculous but highly influential pseudoscientific book that claimed  
that Black people are genetically inferior to whites. The New  
Republic under his editorship played a key role in—in his words 
—“helping to torpedo the Clinton administration’s plans for universal  
health coverage.” A conservative who has differences with Christian  
fundamentalism (Sullivan is openly gay), he invokes Ronald Reagan and  
Margaret Thatcher as models.

And yes, he is supporting Barack Obama for president. …


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