[Peace-discuss] Sold-out Liberalism

[E. Wayne Johnson]

... a long train of abuses and usurpations...

Americans seem to prefer blackguards to new guards...


On 8/12/2012 6:19 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak at Obama's renomination convention 
> next month. The following piece by the late Alexander Cockburn from 
> May 3, 1993, some three months into the first Clinton administration, 
> reminds us how consistent the sell-out of Clinton-Obama liberalism is. 
> But almost 20 years on, the economic elite whose interests it's 
> designed to protect have destroyed the economy - 
> except for themselves, who are doing nicely, thank you - and the task 
> now, with the active help of the 'other party,' is to stave off a real 
> uprising. C & O may be running out of snake-oil.]
>
> *Ahoy there, Clinton lovers!
> *
> Soon the first 100 days will be up, and what will the record show? 
> Sold out the Haitian refugees (US press very cooperative in this 
> regard, suppressing the recent O.A.S. call on the United States to 
> review its policy in light of international law); let a Bush 
> appointee, Herman Cohen, run Africa policy, essentially giving a green 
> light to Savimbi in Angola to butcher thousands; put Israel's 
> lobbyists in charge of Mideast policy bolstered the arms industry with 
> a budget in which projected spending for '93 is higher in constant 
> dollars than average spending during the cold war from 1950, increased 
> secret intelligence spending; maintained full D.E.A. funding, put Wall 
> Street in charge of national economic strategy; sold out on grazing 
> and mineral rights on public lands; is pushing NAFTA forward and is 
> now neutering the side agreements that as a candidate he proposed 
> would protect workers and the environment - a big sellout, this one; 
> and, with Mrs. H.R.C. at the wheel, ignores the desire for about 60 
> percent of Americans for single-payer national health insurance, 
> opting instead for some version of "managed competition" that leaves 
> the insurance companies in charge of the show.
>
> I know. He's no friend of the unborn and unwanted, and that's enough 
> to keep the liberals happy. Having been told that they can enlist in 
> the catering corps or be behind-the-lines hairdressers, gays are not 
> so sanguine about Mr. C. Environmentalists were shaken by the 
> thumbs-up given to the East Liverpool, Ohio, incinerator but still 
> have hopes. Labor is staking all on labor law reform. If Clinton 
> really gets behind a ban on permanent striker replacements, I'll bring 
> a hat to the next Nation benefit and eat it publicly. Bottom line: 
> Clinton has been good on anything irrelevant to the stability of 
> wealth and power.
>
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