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Obama defenders are anti-working class?
Quite frankly, this accusation is idiotic. Anybody who gives a damn about the future of the working class ought to do his level best to see Obama succeed as opposed to Hillary "NAFTA" Clinton and John "Keating Five" McCain.
BTW, If you're going to provide a link to give the appearance of supporting your claim, you really ought to do a bit more than link to the first of 74 pages of letters. If there is a particular letter that supports your point, cite it or don't bother to provide a link at all.
More sloppiness from Joan Walsh.
Those of us who live in the real world, and did not smooze our way to cushy writing jobs, know that the people of the working class are not perfect. Nobody is. It is a Beltway pretense to act as if acknowledging the racial and economic divisions in the US is somehow a political faux pas. Naturally, this attitude to the mere recognition of class and race divisions only serves to reinforce the status quo.
Many of us view a Clinton presidency as something that would be functionally equivalent to the previous Clinton presidency, and part and parcel of the domination of right-wing politics for the past 28 years. After all, if one compares the legislation of the 90s with that of the 80s, it seems that a weak, sell-out, right-pandering Democrat can do as much or more for right-wing causes as a popular conservative Republican. The game plan is to repeatedly sell out the base while constantly lecturing liberals about how this is the best that they can hope for.
The possibility that a more liberal voice might have a better idea what Americans actually want is very threatening to this power base - the "centrist" alliance between Republicans, money, and DLC doormats.
