Summary
The article should've been titled "I Am A Huge Sucker," because [Obama] is an opportunist, ambitious, careerist politician - what else explains his meteoric rise? While it's true that the policies of the current administration are criminal, they didn't come out of the blue. What was truly "jaw-dropping" was the extent people who should have known better were willing to blind themselves to the reality of electoral politics and the system.
In Jan. 2006, then-Sen. Obama met with then-Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom right after Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and said, "our hearts go out to the family of Prime Minister Sharon and we are praying for a recovery on his part." In 2007 at the America Israel Public Affairs Committee gathering, he said, "we must preserve our total commitment to our unique defense relationship with Israel by fully funding military assistance and continuing work on the Arrow and related missile defense programs.All this - and more - has led so-called progressives to cease their unconditional support for "change we can believe in." From those of us who knew beforehand that the Obama campaign was a lie - like all electoral campaigns - I can only say to people like [Clancy Sigal] "we told you so." Voting is no substitute for what was always the solution to these and other problems; people power.See the full content of this document
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One Year On: We Should Have Known
As the first year of the Obama presidency comes to a close, it's worth noting an article that appeared in the progressive news website, AlterNet, on Dec. 24, by Clancy Sigal, that sums up the mood of progressives:
"My personal breaking point, after months of jaw-droppi...See the full content of this document
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