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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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January 4, 2008 2:07 PM
Triangulation 2.0
Here comes the Clinton triangulation method of attacking the progressive movement:
"Hillary's aides point to Obama's extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with "left-wing" intellectuals in Chicago's Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants' rights as subjects for examination."
You just knew it would come back in full force, didntcha?
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For the past year, those of us in the Democratic wing of the Democratic party have been told over and over how very progressive Mrs. Clinton is, how very liberal her record is. Protests have been shouted down, ridiculed, and generally treated with disdain and scorn.
Then she loses Iowa. And the knives come out. Well, what a surprise.
Enlighten me, what progressive movement. Obama is a corporate toadie pure and simple. He is Bill Clinton on steroids. Democrats once again demonstrated what a desperate creature they are. Sorry Obama's "multicultural charisma" just does not cut it for me.
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Hell Mr.Sirota you exposed Obama's corporate roots and his cynical attempts at playing Democrats and liberals pretty darn well over the last 18 months so don't spin us on what he's not.
He's no populist, he's a corporate owned puppet who has made it clear he's their water boy.
Clinton and Obama are two typical corporate Democrats fighting it out, each trying to triangulate each other.
I am a lifelong Democrat supporting Edwards. If he doesn't get the nomination I will probably just not vote for President in 2008.
The DNC has already said by virtue of being a Michigan citizen that I am inferior to Iowa and New Hampshire citizens, so I no longer feel compelled to support the Democratic nominee if it is not the candidate that I chose.
Regards,
I have been called a sexist for voicing concerns about Hillary's Republi-lite "centrism" and a racist for voicing concerns about Obama's lack of experience other than one senate term and time in the Illinois legislature.
As far as I'm concerned, if you have to play the gender and race cards at the drop of a hat, there is something that the candidate that doesn't want to talk about or admit to.
Neither Clinton's nor Obama's supporters want to get into issues, and that is a red flag to me.
We still have paper ballots in Montana. If either Clinton or Obama make it through the primaries, I will write in somebody, probably Edwards.
I'm already betting that Triangulation 3.0 will be all about emulating Huckabee and Edwards in faking people's populism and then selling out once in office just like Raygun, Klinton, and Bush successfully did except it'll be even more sugarcoated than ever ! Maybe the DLC is trying to find ways to clone Huck and Edwards ! But then so might the GOP ?!?!?
Hi butte,
When does Montana get to vote in the primaries just out of curiosity? I know it's not going to matter because your state MT and my state MS are already rendered IRRELEVANT. For all the taxpayer money that is wasted in bad foreign policies of "bringing democracy to 'name a country here'", America needs to get its own democracy in order by giving other states of various sizes and geographies a real chance. To hell with the media and gubbmint !
I am beginning to think that protectionism is not that important. If we have a minimum wage and high progressive taxation to redistribute the gains from trade, it could actually work out nice. I mean, do people really don't give a hoot whether they work in the service sector or manufacturing? As long as we are paid well, who cares? And it is not like we can do anything about the cheap asian goods - we may as well take advantage of it!!! now there is a leftist platform - free trade, but redistribution of wealth and worker protection. If the elite don't want protectionism, I say let us take advantage of their global economy!!!!
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