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Money and the media (who do you think owns the American media) determined who the "challenger" will be.  And frankly, once you get past the rhetoric, you'll find that Obama has been brinking deeply from economic policy advice of the neo-liberal Hamilton Project.  He gave the keynote speech at their lauch for chrissakes.

And the economic advice that they have is that the answer  financial liberalism with government interventions only where needed to sustain the status quo.  Most damningly, Obama's been parroting the idea that the reason that American workers are losing there jobs is because they are uneducated, and that if we invest in education everything will be better.  The problem is that this decade had been one where job losses have been occurring among the college educated.

After all if a person who's earned a college degree in IT can't compete, how can you really say  that the issue here is education.  It's blaming the victim on Obama's part, and it's the reason that he's dangerous.  Because he gets a pass on these things tha Clinton does not. I deal with university aged students daily, and they all think that when they leave university, their education will assure them a good job.  They buy the myth that people who are unemployed are lazy and uneducated.

These are the people most fervent in their support for Obama, people who don't understand that their education doesn't change the fact that there are those who live by wealth and those who live by work.  And their education (indoctrination) leads them to believe they will belong to the former group rather than the latter once they graduate.  

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sun Jan 6th, 2008 at 02:11:56 PM EST
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I think an Obama presidency would be a gold-plated disaster.  (Jeez.  I originally typed "will" instead of "would."  This Obama-mania is insidious.)  Unless something happens PDQ it looks like we're stuck with the guy.
by ATinNM on Sun Jan 6th, 2008 at 07:31:04 PM EST
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Am at this very minute, watching a documentary on Obama (Channel 2 Dutch TV); seems the "black community," is divided. Jessie Jackson was interviewed and strongly criticized Obama being "too" white, whatever that means.
by The3rdColumn on Sun Jan 6th, 2008 at 09:01:53 PM EST
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It means that whites can feel safe in the knowledge they are not voting for a black radical.  This sort of criticism is music to Obama's ears.  For every one disgruntled black voter he loses (who won't vote for anyone else anyway) he gains 10 white voters relieved that he's not like Jesse Jackson.  Thank the Lord!!!

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sun Jan 6th, 2008 at 09:23:00 PM EST
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