MashGet » Acquiescence http://www.mashget.com Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:32:19 +0000 en hourly 1 Norman Solomon: Obama: Beyond Savior or Trickster http://www.mashget.com/2009/04/22/norman-solomon-obama-beyond-savior-or-trickster/ http://www.mashget.com/2009/04/22/norman-solomon-obama-beyond-savior-or-trickster/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:30:03 +0000 MashGet http://www.mashget.com/politics/2009/04/22/norman-solomon-obama-beyond-savior-or-trickster/ As President Obama enters his fourth month in office, two tendencies among progressive-minded Americans seem most hazardous to the political health of the country. The gist of one approach is that Obama can't do anything seriously wrong; the other is that he can't do anything seriously right.

Among the tendencies, the first is more widespread and more dangerous. All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats.

Some historical analogies are acutely relevant, and the LBJ/Vietnam Obama/Afghanistan comparison is one of them.

]]> As President Obama enters his fourth month in office, two tendencies among progressive-minded Americans seem most hazardous to the political health of the country. The gist of one approach is that Obama can't do anything seriously wrong; the other is that he can't do anything seriously right.

Among the tendencies, the first is more widespread and more dangerous. All kinds of atrocious policies -- from Lyndon Johnson's war on Vietnam to Jimmy Carter's midterm swerve rightward to Bill Clinton's neoliberal measures such as NAFTA, "welfare reform" and Wall Street deregulation -- were calamities facilitated by acquiescence or mild dissent from many left-leaning Democrats.

Some historical analogies are acutely relevant, and the LBJ/Vietnam Obama/Afghanistan comparison is one of them.

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