Skepticism is indeed in order, especially about Barack Obama's "tap dancing" around the issues effecting lower income people. Have you noticed his spiel to attract the "middle class" voters in all of the debates? The Democratic Party has time and again betrayed the aspirations of ordinary people (forget Joe the plumber making $250,000) while pursuing an agenda favorable to Wall Street and U.S. imperial ambitions.
Watch this video and weep. (I had to unembed the video because it would start playing everytime you reloaded this page.)
(Thanks to Left I on the News for spotlighting this story.)
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In 1932, FDR ran as a conservative Democrat. Left activism and anger/fear in the general population forced FDR to govern farther to the left than he ever intended.
ReplyDeleteIf Obama wins, we will need to pressure him in the same way people pressured FDR in the 30s.