>> What have the left Obama haters have to say about that ? Marv Gandall wrote: > What does hate or love have to do with it? Like the scorpion in Aesop's > fable, Obama is doing what you would expect: discharging his responsibilities > as President of an imperial power.<
absolutely right. Obama's fans seem to forget that he's a _politician_ working within a specific capitalist political system and heeding the pre-existing balances of power along major axes defining political issues (classs, gender, ethnicity, anti/pro abortion, anti/pro gun control, etc., etc.) The president, more than anyone else in the US, can actually change the balance of power on a few of these exes. But that usually involves giving in on others. Thus, in his heart of hearts, Obama may not like kow-towing to Wall Street or Likudnik Israel, but the political system pushes him to do so anyway. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
