[Peace-discuss] A new book on the betrayal of American liberalism
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Sun Oct 17 12:57:37 CDT 2010
[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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