Sounds right. Barbara Foley read a paper at Marxism 2009 in which, among other things, she pointed out that in his biography he seriously distorted the political lives of his father and grandfather, both of whom were serious radicals.
Carrol Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > > > Obama's politics were _always_ identical to Clinton's. It was the > > really > > pathological delusion of his followers that there was or ever had > been > > any difference whatever between them. > > Not always. He was once some kind of leftist, it seems, and he helped > create that delusion. He really did know Bill Ayers in some sense, > went to Jeremiah Wright's church for a long time, and went to a > Socialist Scholars Conference or two. As Glen Ford of the Black Agenda > Report, who's watched him for a long time, puts it, he knows the music > in our heads. Obviously that's changed, and he's now indistinguishable > from Clinton, but the history's there. > > Doug > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
