After Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) secured his party’s nomination in June, his tightly knit campaign message began to fray at the edges. Critics from across the political spectrum charge that Obama has shifted to the center or right on a host of issues, and that the flip-flopping was — take your pick — good, bad, inevitable or duplicitous. Progressives, whose hopes… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pagesObama’s “aggressive diplomacy” is to have the Un send a nasty letter.
Once again we have two professional politicans to pick from. With either one we still have a do-nothing congress, no paper trail election methods and economic policies the favor the rich.
There’s nothing wrong with being rich — it’s how you get there that matters. The Wall Street, Treasury Dept., Fed and congress team will once again get the gold medal.
Posted by whattheheck on Aug 26, 2008 at 12:37 PM Moberg’s excellent article poses the question of how to “pressure” Obama. But the groups that Moberg is talking about are not pressuring Obama. They’re supporting Obama. The only real way to pressure Obama is to threaten to withhold support, and nobody that Moberg interviewed is planning to do that.
What will likely happen is that Obama will win, and then do whatever he wants to do, no matter what people on the Left think or want. If you look at who is advising Obama, it’s hard to be optimistic.
Posted by Nevada_Ned on Aug 27, 2008 at 3:05 PM Joe Biden said on September 3 that he and Barack Obama will pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/news/16917#comment-129791
Contact the Obama/Biden campaign and tell them that unless there is repeated, emphatic commitment on this issue you aren’t going to vote for them and you’re going to encourage others to refuse to vote for them also.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
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