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Obama's timid liberalism

Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
By Michael Lind

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  • Thursday, March 5, 2009 06:57 PM

    EVeryone forgets...

    that Obama was never a liberal. He was always a neoliberal centrist. What he did was to superbly use the lingo of liberalism to make half the population believe he really was (something like a political Rohrschach). The most we can do is to help him along and at least try to be more left of center than right of center in his policy positions.

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