[Peace-discuss] A new book on the betrayal of American liberalism

[C. G. Estabrook]

  [Hodge, a former editor at Harper's, has got it right - what some of us in 
AWARE have been saying since Obama's visit to C-U five years ago.  He even uses 
the title we've employed on occasion.  "Hodge skillfully draws the veil from 
Obama's allegedly reformist agenda to expose the reality of the programs to 
ensure that no major stakeholder in his coalition of corporate backers will 
suffer significant losses, and will even enjoy spectacular gains --- the 
perfection of the long right turn of the Democratic Party since the 1970s, as 
financialization of the economy led to shedding New Deal commitments so as to 
compete with the Republicans for corporate patronage. He calls for a 
revitalization of the founding tradition of civil virtue and republican values 
of liberty, a message that should be taken to heart if we are to reverse the 
drift toward an ugly future."  --CGE]


/*The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism
*/by Roger D. Hodge

This is what I've been waiting for---a profound and hard-hitting critique of the 
Obama administration from the left! The Mendacity of Hope should help wake up 
all those Obama voters who've been napping while the wars escalate, the 
recession deepens, and the environment goes straight to hell."

---Barbara Ehrenreich

"Ready to wake up from the Obama dream yet? If so, this thrillingly scathing and 
relentlessly truthful cri de coeur is your strong cup of coffee. Hodge skewers 
the sloppy intellectual culture that willed this political chimera into being, 
while expertly unmasking the corporate machine that is the real Brand Obama. 
Drink up."

---Naomi Klein

"An eloquently sober indictment of the corruption which impels the self 
aggrandizement of our executive branch, much to the bane of our Constitution. A 
frightening book whose conclusions ought to haunt every American."

---William T. Vollmann

"Roger Hodge has written a desperately needed exposé of how Barack Obama is not 
the messiah of liberalism but its designated gravedigger---he is one of the all 
too few voices on the progressive side who dares to tell the truth about the 
corporate masters this administration actually serves, and the dire effect of 
that allegiance upon what is left of our Republic. This is a blazing indictment 
of corporate collusion and a bracing injection of hard truths."

---Naomi Wolf

"Hodge skillfully draws the veil from Obama's allegedly 'reformist agenda' to 
expose the reality of the programs 'to ensure that no major stakeholder in his 
coalition of corporate backers will suffer significant losses,' and will even 
enjoy spectacular gains---the 'perfection of the long right turn' of the 
Democratic Party since the 1970s, as financialization of the economy led to 
shedding New Deal commitments so as 'to compete with the Republicans for 
corporate patronage.' He calls for a revitalization of the founding tradition of 
civil virtue and republican values of liberty, a message that should be taken to 
heart if we are to reverse the drift toward an ugly future."

---Noam Chomsky

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