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"Saving Progressivism From Obama" to Save America From The "Second Wave" to Save Obama From HimselfSubmitted by Norm Roulet on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 23:48.
Democratic political leadership of today, to the White House, seems intellectually and socially disconnected from the progressive Democratic concepts I embraced growing up in America since 1961, personified to me by John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., in their most-glorified trappings. Today, in my part of America - the region of Northeast Ohio that includes Cleveland, Youngstown and Akron - villainous democratic leaders and their corrupt political and business machines have paralyzed all forms of social and economic progress - extinguished liberal progressivism completely - and made the region such a polluted, incompetent, FBI-embedded disgrace our citizens and economy shall never remotely recover. At the top of our broken Democratic political, social, environmental, and economic pyramid-scheming is President Obama, who has "turned out to be such a political dud as chief executive" that our "blue-state financial misery continues", along with other blue-states, and that "deepens the ideological crisis for American liberalism" worldwide. Even billionaires traditionally supportive of Democratic party interests and candidates appear to be seeking "alternative brands to Obama himself." I quote above two excellent columns published online this week, coming from opposite directions, analyzing the challenges Obama faces ahead, mid-term into his presidency, if he seeks any hope of winning a second term in office in 2012 - The Second Wave, by conservative writer Michael Gerson... and Saving Progressivism from Obama, by liberal writer Robert Kuttner. About Obama's prospects for re-election, in 2012... the conservative Gerson wrote:
About expectations for Obama to redeem and transform himself and his Presidency... the liberal Kuttner wrote:
The conservative Gerson offers his observations on the challenges to Progressives in America in the coming years... which he projects to be fatal:
To save progressivism and liberal activism, the liberal Kuttner suggests:
Even the conservative Gerson leaves some room for hope for Obama and liberals, in his perspective:
No honest liberals nor conservatives expect "a dramatically growing economy" in America in the years, decades or remaining century ahead. As a progressive, I'm seeking to change those prospects for the world through "alternative brands to Obama himself", and, like conservative Gerson above, I'm noting Colorado and the election of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper as Governor, to replace fellow Democrat Bill Ritter... who did not to seek re-election. The Denver Post reported, "Hickenlooper said he believes he won so comfortably because his team ran a positive campaign." In his victory speach, as the new Colorado Governor, Hickenlooper said:
The 2012 presidential election is about two years away, and Obama appears to be a sitting lame-duck in the cross-hairs of liberals and conservatives. Hickenlooper is one alternative brand to Obama that has potential. Where are the others? How did America go so far off-track, since I was born, in 1961?
Michael Gerson writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on issues that include politics, global health, development, religion and foreign policy. Michael Gerson is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Michael Gerson served as a policy adviser and chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush from 2000 to 2006. Before he joined Bush's presidential campaign in 1999, Michael Gerson was a senior editor covering politics at U.S. News & World Report. Michael Gerson is the author of the forthcoming book Heroic Conservatism and a contributor to Newsweek magazine. Robert Kuttner is the author of A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise, Wall Street’s Power, and the Struggle to Control our Economic Future, recently published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company. Kuttner also authored Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency and several other books on politics and the economy. He is coeditor of The American Prospect magazine and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the progressive think tank Demos. He is a regular commentator on TV and radio, and a contributor to The Huffington Post and The Boston Globe, and a former longtime columnist for BusinessWeek. Previously, he was chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and a national staff writer on The Washington Post.
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