[Peace-discuss] Hey, Obama-lovers: he did it again...

[C. G. Estabrook]

But don't you think it would be better to expose what Obama and the Democrats
are actually doing? Explaining his strategy could look like covering for him.

The point is, as Hotspur says, to tell the truth and shame the devil.

In fact, I think his strategy is better summarized - not as watering down &
weakening - but as faking left and going right; of pretending to work for the
general interest while working in fact for the contradictory elite interest...


Tom Abram wrote:
> Nope.  Just explaining how I interpret part of his flawed strategy - not to
> say I agree with him on it.  It's the same strategy he used on health care.
> Let's start with a watered down proposal and weaken it even further through
> compromise.  Of course, he can't let down his corporate donors either.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:58 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu 
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Are you *defending* him, Tom?
> 
> He is after all the president.  Instead of accepting the Republican/business
> view, he could have led in the other direction. But it's been clear for a
> while (since he entered politics, in fact) that he's desperate to flack for
> the business elite.
> 
> I hope you weren't polite about him.  Regards, Carl
> 
> Tom Abram wrote:
> 
> I think it's his attempt to compromise on an already watered down
> cap-and-trade bill in order to curry favors from the Republicans who are just
>  going to vote against it anyway.
> 
> WCIA took some soundbites from me this afternoon, so hopefully it will air at
>  10pm.
> 
> Tom Abram
> 
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>>> wrote:
> 
> That socialist Obama on his decision to open up the coast to oil drilling:
> 
> "Ultimately, we need to move beyond the tired debates between right and left,
>  between business leaders and environmentalists, between those who would
> claim drilling is a cure all and those who would claim it has no place.
> Because this issue is just too important to allow our progress to languish
> while we fight the same old battles over and over again..."
> 
> When I read this remark this morning, I immediately assumed it was another 
> Onion parody, using Obama's hackneyed and ridiculous diction to say something
>  he couldn't possibly say.  Then I read the rest of the news & learnt of his 
> latest betrayal...
> 
> 
> 
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