I know I'm being too harsh on Obama. I want him to leave office after this term or the second term renouncing the military interventionist policies, slashing the military budgets, and telling it like it is to Americans about the death throes of the imperium and why their society and political economy fails them.
That would not make him a SUCCESSFUL president in the eyes of most Americans, I suspect. As I have said before, a successful president is one, in the view of the 'general public', who transcends the interests of the narrow interest groups who financed his or her way into the Repugnicratic system, somehow transcends those interests, in domestic policy, in foreign policy, etc. It's been a while since a president has succeeded on such terms. There might have been a sense that Clinton did by the end of his second term, but he had also relented and signed the Democratic Party onto 'regime change' now (not later) in Iraq. And transcendance seems to have been making the Democrats the sponsors of 'welfare reform' and 'regime change'. In the case of Obama, he represents a coming together, however ephemeral and however shallow, a much broader coalition of interests and forces. There is no where to go on the accepted political spectrum for him to move in order to transcend that, if that sort of transcendance is even possible. That is why I think his best success as president would be to fail and tell like it really is--because he might yet get enough interest for it to mean something. So far he has shown himself to be a very cautious leader. I doubt if anyone gets even a fraction of as far as he did without being very cautious. Like Carter I want to know what the guy really thinks. CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
