Re: [Pen-l] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Charles Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to remember whether O's presidential campaign strategy  
> and tactics made any sense to you.

They did. Evoke "change" in a vague way to appeal to the maximum  
number of people without getting specific enough to alienate all that  
many. Rely on the capacity for self-deception among "progressives" and  
boost it with a rise in black turnout based on racial pride. It worked  
very well. The guy is a great politician.

The Rick Warren and Republican-friendly stuff fits in nicely with  
Adolph Reed's theory that the Dems aim for a party realignment that  
would marginalize the far right Republicans into a loony rump  
formation, while holding onto the liberal wing of the Ds because  
they're naive, and have nowhere else to go. The more I think about it  
the more the "concession" on tax breaks makes sense in that context.

Doug
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