[Peace-discuss] Uncle Noam on the BBC

[Barbara kessel]

I think the Chomsky point is that it is a great opening moment for the
People and for organizers of people, a point also made by Naomi Klein (on
October 29) who said, "Obama is a Centrist. It is up to us to move the
Center."  Even were he to be better than our fears, he cannot fail to
disappoint because the size of the mess he steps into.       We need now to
"stretch the map" of anti-war protestors. Just because 64% of the voters
said that their top issue was the economy and 10% said it was the war does
not mean that these issues remain unrelated in all the minds of that 64%.
True Anecdote: 84 year old father of a friend of mine, who is a veteran of
WWII, a stone racist, always voted Republican, cast his first Democratic
vote for Obama saying to his grown children, "I am sick and tired of seeing
the government throwing our money away on useless and unnecessary wars."
 Barbara Kessel

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu> wrote:

> >The Prophet [Noam] says: what matters is what people do with their
> disappointment when Obama fails to meet their expectations.
>
> I think the best thing Obama can do is hire the best cabinet possible to do
> the real
> work and he be the negotiator between the groups. He's smart enough and
> there is
> some evidence that he just might find the humility to do this.
>
> He should take on one thing himself: universal healthcare would be a good
> choice.
>
> My worst fear is that he appoints only centrists and the right to his
> cabinet. He has
> a mandate to move left, but he may not be able to recognize it. He has a
> tendency
> to overcompensate to the right.
>
> -karen medina
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