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Saturday, June 28, 2008
The Barack Doctrine
Naomi Klein is brilliant.
She's just about the only progressive public intellectual around right now who's even trying to put the dark days of the post-9/11 era into a broader historical context without resorting to the same tired-ass, over-simplified, 1960s Chomsky-ite critique. And she's not giving Obama a free pass:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein
Obama's not Superman, and he has to obey the laws of political science just like everyone else, so there's no reason to get hysterical over his general election centrist pivot. But is it too much to ask that the candidate of change throw his base a bone between selling out on FISA, supporting the death penalty and thanking the Supreme Court for handing gun control advocates the biggest setback in history?
Staffing up his economic team with a Friedmanite Wal-Mart triumphalist is not the bone we're waiting for.
She's just about the only progressive public intellectual around right now who's even trying to put the dark days of the post-9/11 era into a broader historical context without resorting to the same tired-ass, over-simplified, 1960s Chomsky-ite critique. And she's not giving Obama a free pass:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein
Obama's not Superman, and he has to obey the laws of political science just like everyone else, so there's no reason to get hysterical over his general election centrist pivot. But is it too much to ask that the candidate of change throw his base a bone between selling out on FISA, supporting the death penalty and thanking the Supreme Court for handing gun control advocates the biggest setback in history?
Staffing up his economic team with a Friedmanite Wal-Mart triumphalist is not the bone we're waiting for.
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