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OBAMA HEARTS 'RONNIE' - An Old New Song

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« on: January 18, 2008, 03:40:36 pm »





Reagan was the beginning of our long national nightmare. Because of his legacy, we are where we are,
which isn't a good thing.

Praising Reagan, in any context, is frightening and demonstrates how clueless Obama is about that era.

For those who truly care about those issues which Reagan trashed, like the environment, makes one
wonder whether Barack is more interested in power than substance.

Reagan may have been consequential, but then so were Mussolini and Hitler, both of whom generated considerable optimism for which their publics were ready. I doubt any mainstream politician would mention
either of them as exemplars of change.

FDR was consequential, hopeful, optimistic, and a Democrat in both name and policy. Why didn't Obama use
him as a paragon of change as so many Democrats have in the past? Image politics and triangulation are
why, the very sins that have inflicted us with G.W. Bush.

It's just pandering pure and simple.

The fact is, our corporate media have fostered the myth of Reagan and the politics of image in general.

Obama praising Reagan is pure politics of image -- no more honest than Bush's "compassionate conservatism".


I find it reprehensible.

« Last Edit: January 18, 2008, 03:45:19 pm by Bianca » Report Spam   Logged

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