Cockburn is all over the place politically at times, like his buddy Hitch. This time I agree with him.
Obama showed no leadership in the senate. Next to Bush, is setting a low bar to compare someone to.
The Democratic and Republican Party, is one party with two right wings.
I follow Lebanon closely. My blog team member Marxist from Lebanon analyzes the situation very well. Obama's ideas can only further divide the country. The Lebanese army is unpredictable. Much of recent problems could have been avoided, if Bush kept quiet, instead pf supporting one side.
Obama isn't a man of the left. He operates within the system. This is inherently conservative, even right-wing, to Cockburn. But it shouldn't come as any surprise that a major-party nominee is not hell-bent on changing our form of government. As desirable as that may be, some of us will take the best we can get now because there are immediate problems that we'd rather see addressed by Barack Obama than John McCain.
Incidentally, I met Cockburn once. I was expecting a fire-breather and got exactly the opposite: A kind, attentive man who listened. The opposite of Christopher Hitchens, who even before he went nuts came across as a stereotypical poseur: Unshaven, leaning forward with an immensely long ash dangling from an eternal cigarette, constantly running a hand through unkempt hair, and his own best audience.
Well, he was far far far down as my first choice. But my first choice never got his bus further than about half way out of the parking garage. Murdoch and the corporatist elite that have strangled this nation said they'd make sure of that, and they did.
When Vaquero was in Portland, on his way to Seattle, back last spring, he stayed with AC's Counterpunch partner, Jeffrey St. Clair, and his wife, who is library director, I believe at the university. Jeffrey does all the work for Counterpunch, it seems.
Haven't met AC, though it could/might happen, as Vaquero writes things for them now and again.
The worst thing O's done for himself by turning so sharply right is that people like me, who can actually persuade and inform others to vote for him, or at least not vote against him -- we no longer have the passion-energy to do that.
Cockburn is all over the place politically at times, like his buddy Hitch. This time I agree with him.
ReplyDeleteObama showed no leadership in the senate. Next to Bush, is setting a low bar to compare someone to.
The Democratic and Republican Party, is one party with two right wings.
I follow Lebanon closely. My blog team member Marxist from Lebanon analyzes the situation very well. Obama's ideas can only further divide the country. The Lebanese army is unpredictable. Much of recent problems could have been avoided, if Bush kept quiet, instead pf supporting one side.
Obama isn't a man of the left. He operates within the system. This is inherently conservative, even right-wing, to Cockburn. But it shouldn't come as any surprise that a major-party nominee is not hell-bent on changing our form of government. As desirable as that may be, some of us will take the best we can get now because there are immediate problems that we'd rather see addressed by Barack Obama than John McCain.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I met Cockburn once. I was expecting a fire-breather and got exactly the opposite: A kind, attentive man who listened. The opposite of Christopher Hitchens, who even before he went nuts came across as a stereotypical poseur: Unshaven, leaning forward with an immensely long ash dangling from an eternal cigarette, constantly running a hand through unkempt hair, and his own best audience.
Well, he was far far far down as my first choice. But my first choice never got his bus further than about half way out of the parking garage. Murdoch and the corporatist elite that have strangled this nation said they'd make sure of that, and they did.
ReplyDeleteLove, C.
When Vaquero was in Portland, on his way to Seattle, back last spring, he stayed with AC's Counterpunch partner, Jeffrey St. Clair, and his wife, who is library director, I believe at the university. Jeffrey does all the work for Counterpunch, it seems.
ReplyDeleteHaven't met AC, though it could/might happen, as Vaquero writes things for them now and again.
Love, C.
The worst thing O's done for himself by turning so sharply right is that people like me, who can actually persuade and inform others to vote for him, or at least not vote against him -- we no longer have the passion-energy to do that.
ReplyDeleteLove, C.