[Peace-discuss] Co-opt = surreptitiously to commandeer, appropriate, or take over

[C. G. Estabrook]

A principal, indeed crucial, element in Obama's 2008 election was his  
success in co-opting the anti-war movement. His effective lies made  
him a "peace candidate" (and indeed Peace Prize winner) who was able  
to escalate the war he had inherited more brutally and efficiently  
than his predecessor. (That he knew quite well what he was doing from  
early on is clear from his discussion of the anti-Vietnam War movement  
in The Audacity of Hope.)

His re-election campaign is attempting the same cynical operation with  
the Occupy movement. That should be exposed, and this child-killer -  
and tool of the financial corporations - should be driven from office.  
As Glen Ford puts it, he's not the lesser evil - just the more  
effective evil.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/16/99-percent-spring-the-latest-moveon-front-for-the-democratic-party/

http://gawker.com/5896763/occupy-wall-street-and-moveon-go-together-like-woodstock-and-1999
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