Why Do We Assume Obama’s Actually Trying to Enact a Progressive Agenda?

Posted on April 18, 2011

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Glenn Greenwald: Why Do We Assume Obama’s Actually Trying to Enact a Progressive Agenda? | | AlterNet.

I don’t understand that assumption at all. Does anyone believe that Obama and his army of veteran Washington advisers are incapable of discovering these tactics on their own or devising better strategies for trying to avoid these outcomes if that’s what they really wanted to do? What evidence is there that Obama has some inner, intense desire for more progressive outcomes? These are the results they’re getting because these are the results they want — for reasons that make perfectly rational political sense

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