[Peace-discuss] M.K.B. has forwarded an article to you fromCommonDreams.org: Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values

[C. G. Estabrook]

If anyone still had any doubts about whom Obama is working for, s/he should note
that to replace Justice Stevens - the last member of the Court with personal
experience of the Great Depression - Obama has nominated an apparatchik who was 
a member of the Research Advisory Council of the Goldman Sachs Global Markets
Institute from 2005 through 2008.


On 5/11/10 12:54 AM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Glenn Greenwald is strongly anti-war and anti-authoritarian and is popular
> among both progressives and libertarians. Greenwald accurately identifies
> Kagan as a sycophant (in the most original sense) for the authoritarian Obama
> Administration. Greenwald compares her to John Woo as a potential trasher of
> the Constitution, someone who would support the unconstitutional Bush-Obama
> authoritarian expansion of presidential power. Greenwald further connects the
> dots between Kagan and GoldmanSachs and the bankster syndicate.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Jenifer Cartwright
> <mailto:jencart13 at yahoo.com> *To:* mkb3 at mac.com <mailto:mkb3 at mac.com> ;
> Morton K. Brussel <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu> *Cc:*
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:36 AM *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] M.K.B.
> has forwarded an article to you fromCommonDreams.org: Kagan in Context:
> Shafting Progressive Values
>
> Greenwald's analysis was harsh, but I tho't both Amy and her other guest, law
> professor Jamin Raskin neutralized much of his criticism w/ their comments.
> An interesting exchange, check it out at
> _www.democracynow.org/2010/5/10/progressives_divided_over_obamas_nomination_of
>
>
<http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/10/progressives_divided_over_obamas_nomination_of>_
> --Jenifer
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/10/10, Morton K. Brussel /<brussel at illinois.edu
> <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>>/* wrote:
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>
> From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] M.K.B. has forwarded an article to you from
> CommonDreams.org: Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values To:
> mkb3 at mac.com Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Date: Monday, May 10, 2010,
> 11:26 AM
>
> A lively discussion which shows what a flake Kagan is likely to be can be
> seen on Democracy Now, a debate between Glenn Greenwald and a defender of
> Kagan. She's already been chosen by Obama, typical for him. --mkb
>
> On May 10, 2010, at 10:55 AM, mkb3 at mac.com </mc/compose?to=mkb3 at mac.com>
> wrote:
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>> *More bad news for civil libertarians, but I suppose one must wait until
>> the nomination is formally presented, and approved.*
>>
>> *Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values
>> <http://www.commondreams.org/forward/emailref/55878>* If President Obama
>> has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens -- and the Supreme
>> Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially
>> because it's part of a pattern.
>>
>> The White House is in the grip of conventional centrist wisdom. Grim
>> results stretch from Afghanistan to the Gulf of Mexico to communities
>> across the USA.

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