and I thought the commies loved the guy. On Nov 17, 7:56 pm, jcorlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://progressivelabor.890m.com/index.php/challenge-newspaper/browse... > > Barack’s Capitalist Dream Team: Workers’ Nightmare > > Written by challenge > Monday, 17 November 2008 02:48 > The emerging “Team Obama” boasts many of U.S. capitalism’s most > vicious racist job-, wage- and benefit-cutters and imperialist > warmakers. Economic hit-men like former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul > Volcker, Clinton’s Treasury-Secy. Robert Rubin and his assistant Larry > Summers, and Clinton’s NY Fed chairman Timothy Geithner comprise > Obama’s money trust. > > Their policies directly raised unemployment to levels unseen since the > 1930s, dismantled Welfare and helped engineer Wall Street’s > “restructuring,” which this year alone has cost 1.2 million workers’ > jobs. Government figures show 21.2 million workers out of work or > unable to find full-time jobs. (NY Times, 10/8) Meanwhile, executives > of failed firms haggle over the size of their multi-million-dollar > “golden parachutes.” > > John Podesta heads Obama’s transition team. The lobbying firm he > founded fronts for BP, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, > Raytheon, and other cogs in the Pentagon war machine. Rahm Emmanuel, > Obama’s new chief of staff, served in the neo-Nazi Israeli Defense > Force during the genocide of the first Gulf War. > > The Rockefeller wing of the ruling class, expecting potential > opposition to capitalism’s putting the screws on the working class, > has been planning Obama’s rise for some time. As CHALLENGE has > reported, Rockefeller money sent Obama to Harvard and then to a > professorship at the U. of Chicago and then to the “electric” speech > at the 2004 Democratic Convention which gave him the national > spotlight. It was then that he started pushing the rulers’ “all-class > unity” (“We’re not blue states or red states; we’re the United > States”), now his watchword. In Obama the rulers have the perfect guy > to champion this. > > According to the NY Times (10/5), Obama’s forces began organizing this > campaign the day after he was elected to the Senate from Illinois two > years ago. They figured out how to raise hundreds of millions of > dollars, outspending McCain four to one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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