26 October, 2008 | Leave a Comment

An excerpt from Alexander Cockburn’s column in the Independent today, entitled: Obama, the first-rate Republican.

Obama’s run has been the negation of almost every decent progressive principle, with scarcely a bleat of protest from the progressives seeking to hold him to account. The Michael Moores stay silent. Obama has crooked the knee to bankers and Wall Street, to the oil companies, the coal companies, the nuclear lobby, the big agricultural combines. He is more popular with Pentagon contractors than McCain, and has been the most popular of the candidates with Washington lobbyists. He has been fearless in offending progressives, constant in appeasing the powerful…So no, this is not an exciting or liberating moment in America’s politics.

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1. Vol Abroad Says:

   October 30th, 2008 at 8:18 am

   Yep

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