Re: [Pen-l] James Petras on Obama

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Still, I don't see Obama as being more of a con man than any other
establishment politician.

Louis Proyect wrote:
> There's no evidence that Petras had any illusions in Obama.
>
> In fact, he was a Nader/McKinney supporter:
>
> http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1760&more=1&c=1
> The Elections and the Responsibility of the Intellectual to Speak Truth to
> Power: Twelve Reasons to Reject Obama and Support Nader/McKinney
>
>    The presidential elections in the US, once again, provide an acid test of
> the integrity and consequential conduct of US intellectuals. If it is the
> duty and responsibility of the public intellectual to speak truth to power,
> the recent statements of most of our well-known and prestigious public
> pundits have failed miserably.
>
> . 10.29.2008
>
> Instead of highlighting, exposing and denouncing the reactionary foreign and
> domestic policies of Democratic Party candidate Senator Barack Obama, they
> have chosen to support him, 'critically, offering as excuses that even
> 'limited differences' can result in positive outcomes,and that 'Obama is the
> lesser evil' and 'creates an opportunity for a possibility of change.'
>
> What makes these arguments untenable is the fact that Obama's public
> pronouncements, his top policy advisers, and the likely policymakers in his
> government have openly defined a most bellicose foreign policy and a
> profoundly reactionary domestic economic policy totally in line with
> Paulson-Bush-Wall Street. On the major issues of war, peace, the economic
> crisis and the savaging of the US wage and salaried class, Obama promises to
> extend and deepen the policies which the majority of Americans reject and
> repudiate.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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