(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama

[Dave Williams]

Obama downshifts American imperialism in Colombia
http://libcom.org/news/obama-downshifts-american-imperialism-colombia-03092010

--- On Fri, 9/3/10, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (l NP ) great speech Mr Obama
> To: "Robert Mahnke" <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>, "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, September 3, 2010, 7:31 PM
> http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025522.php
> 
> MAKING THE ENTHUSIASM GAP LESS ABSTRACT
> 
> Much has been written about how we reached this point, but
> Adam
> Serwer's summary today sounds about right to me.
> 
> I'd chalk it up a few things: the administration and
> Democrats in
> general being timid about defending themselves and their
> policies, a
> general sense that key liberal priorities were compromised
> on or
> abandoned, and the failure to get the economy moving again.
> What most
> people are seeing and hearing is that Democratic Party
> leaders are
> failing, which doesn't exactly make people want to come out
> and vote
> for them, let alone make phone calls and knock on doors.
>