Blacksmythe: The GOP End Game–Go Out BLAZING
submariner
· 1 year ago
This is why I think it's so important for progressive critics to get used to the art of dissembling and using Obama as they would a Trojan horse to advance their desired agenda. Who cares that Barack doesn't talk confrontationally about race and class if he is the best available option? The unvarnished reality is that it is a marker of political weakness, ineptitude, and delusion when pols speak forthrightly like Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul.
The error that Cobb shares with progressive critics of Obama is thinking that the president is selected primarily because of the laundry lists of policies that s/he carries. The truth as Jeffrey K. Tulis has written is that ever since Woodrow Wilson the chief executive has been chosen on the basis of their rhetorical power.
Of course, the appeal of the rhetoric depends on how much it advances a corporate interest and encapsulates the asprations of the masses. Carter had done this but ran into trouble with the military industrial establishment. In the post Vietnam, stagflation era this was provided by Ronald Reagan. He gave voice and the benign face to a right agenda.
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The error that Cobb shares with progressive critics of Obama is thinking that the president is selected primarily because of the laundry lists of policies that s/he carries. The truth as Jeffrey K. Tulis has written is that ever since Woodrow Wilson the chief executive has been chosen on the basis of their rhetorical power.
Of course, the appeal of the rhetoric depends on how much it advances a corporate interest and encapsulates the asprations of the masses. Carter had done this but ran into trouble with the military industrial establishment. In the post Vietnam, stagflation era this was provided by Ronald Reagan. He gave voice and the benign face to a right agenda.