Re: [Pen-l] Obama reconsidered

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was an excellent panel on Actually Existing Barbarism sponsored by
Socialist Register. The first paper was read at such speed it exhibited
contempt for its hearers, but nevertheless seemed to have some quite
good material on continuity in U.S. domestic policy. Jan & I walked out
on the third speaker out of embarassment for him. The second speaker was
on continuity in U.S. foreign policy over the administrations of
Bush,*Clinton,Bush, Obama, and I suspect provided a find basis for
seeing how things will be going. Obama is asimply a more efficient
mass-murderer than Bush, and one capable,as Bush was not, of organizing
serous public support for his murderous policies.

Carrol

ravi wrote:
> 
> Despite (and not forgetting) his murderous assault in Somali waters, I
> am beginning to feel a wee bit positive about Obama in light of his
> Chavez, Cuba and even Iran, engagement and comments. I think his
> comment (below) is quite a significant challenge of ingrained ideology
> and confrontational, binary frameworks:
> 
>   "They would have us make the false choice between a rigid, state-run
> economy and unbridled and unregulated capitalism;"
> 
> He goes on to posit right-wing paramilitaries as equivalent to left-
> wing insurgents (or rather the other way around), which is, IMHO, an
> insult to the history of the region (Central/South America), but I
> will take these crumbs, nonetheless.
> 
>         --ravi
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