Re: [Pen-l] Naomi Klein: Beware of Obama's Chicago School of Economics boys

["Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You saw nuance, I saw drivel.

I've explained the vacuousness of the "Chicago" theme in re: Obama.
For details, check my posts.

The real thrust of NK's column is that BHO is not a socialist.  That's
as far as she gets by way of negative description.  This is not a newsflash,
nor a useful observation in the context of U.S. politics.

Here's another example, typical of the fact-free, nuance-free wave of 
assertions:

"Furman, a Rubin disciple, was chosen to head the Brookings 
Institution's Hamilton Project,
the thinktank Rubin helped found to argue for the free trade agenda."

The HP is not a "think tank."  It's a project with a number of published 
papers.
It does not argue for "the free trade agenda."  It favors liberal trade 
policies among
a myriad of other interests.  It is not advocacy-oriented; it has 
produced a raft of
papers.  You could say they are planning policies for the next 
administration (they
stayed out of the primaries).  Rubin himself as I've noted in the past 
is not in the same
place as he was in 1992 on trade.

I'm sorry, she's just babbling.  Somebody could do better.  Others have 
done better.
I am jealous.  I'd like to make nice money pontificating without the 
need for tedious
research or the obligation to assemble a logical, substantive argument. 
 It's a great gig.


Patrick Bond wrote:
 > Isn't that her point? Why not unite, rather than kvetch? And Max, 
what's
> your apparently malevolent agenda here, comrade? Y'all are sounding like 
> jealous bullies.
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