06 Nov Obama 2.0
06.11.08
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Remember the halcyon days of the election when Obama was a socialist and a marxist? Well, funny thing. According to the RNC, he’s actually a moderate Republican:
In all, with Barack Obama’s promises to cut taxes, merit pay for public school teachers, and renewed offshore drilling, I would say he simply ran the most successful moderate Republican presidential campaign since Dwight Eisenhower.
What do you think explains the volte-face? A crushing defeat at the polls, or the right rediscovering that handy little thing called a dictionary?
The unfortunate irony is that there’s still much of value to be gleaned from the theory and praxis of socialism in general and Marxism in particular, while the current use of “Marxist” and “socialist” as easy epithets reveals the appalling depth of ignorance and failure of imagination in contemporary political discourse and politics. Tilting against windmills has been the prevailing norm among Republicans, libertarians, and conservative Christian evangelicals, while some of us persist in swimming against the current: http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/deja_vu_all_ove.html#comments