From the Left is this statement by Chris Floyd, an interesting and honest writer:
When reality gives it the lie, then it must be abandoned. There is no hope to be found in the Obama Administration: no hope for genuine change, no hope for a clean break (or any kind of break) from the relentless and ruthless promotion of empire, oligarchy and militarism. By his own choices -- his appointments, his policies, his court actions, his rhetoric -- Barack Obama has demonstrated beyond all doubt his sincere and abiding commitment to "continuity" in the most pernicious and corrosive elements of America's lawless hyper-state. To place one's hope in such a figure is a crippling, disastrous folly.
The only hope that can be associated with the Obama Administration is the long-shot, rapidly fading, outside chance that they could be forced -- very much against their will -- into at least slowing the militarist-oligarchic juggernaut by strong, sustained, massive, informed political opposition from the public.
It is too early for me to turn on Obama in this way. But I have to say, as those of you who read this blog well know, that I'm beginning to get frustrated with his failure to appoint the kind of people who will bring 'the change we need.' I like his words and much else about him. But it goes without saying that who you delegate a job to will determine much of what eventually happens. And I have found his choice of Assistants to be often less than inspiring. (The one exception to that would be in the area of climate change and the environment in general.)
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