[Dialogue] Sirota Nails it here

[Geri Tolman]

who wrote this article?  Who is Sirota?


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I hope that progressives will recognize what's really going on with the
Clinton campaign
 
Dick Kroeger
 

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From: Dick email
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CC: DavThom at att.net, KroegerD
Sent: 1/23/2008 11:10:46 A.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: My point exactly

 


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	The
<http://action.credomobile.com/sirota/2008/01/the_politics_of_hopelessness.h
tml> Politics of Hopelessness


	"You were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." -
Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton, 1/22/08

	The
<http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/debate.transcript/index.html>
exchange lasted about 3 seconds - if you flipped the channel for a moment,
you might have missed it. That was the amount of time the two leading
candidates for the Democratic nomination for president spent talking about
the corporate takeover of our government - the issue that almost singularly
drives American politics and that is at the core of our country's most
fundamental problems.

	Clinton, of course, declined to address this part of her past - the
part where she helped direct Wal-Mart, arguably the most efficiently
rapacious, environmentally destructive, and anti-worker creation in all of
human history. She cynically parried by mentioning a campaign contributor of
Obama's who has been in some legal trouble - as if we are expected to forget
the name
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/26/hsu_raised_big_money_
for_clinton_supporters/> Norman Hsu, much less Clinton's status as the
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12donate.html> top recipient of
health industry cash in the entire Congress - Republican or Democrat. And
thanks to moderator Wolf Blitzer, the debate was quickly shifted to topics
less uncomfortable for the corporate media like, say, how Barack Obama voted
"present" in one half of one percent of his votes as a state legislator in
Illinois. The horror.

	Later in the debate, when John Edwards gave perhaps the most
eloquent answer of all on a question about poverty, Clinton tried to one-up
everyone by saying "when I graduated from law school, I didn't go to work
for a law firm. I went to work for Marian Wright Edelman at the Children's
Defense Fund." Yes, folks - forget about her time at Arkansas most powerful
corporate law firm. Forget that she ignored potential conflicts-of-interest
to serve at that corporate law firm even as her husband was governor of the
state. Forget her role helping build Wal-Mart into the monster it is today.
Forget even her sitting by and cheering as her husband's administration -
which she now overtly asks voters to re-embrace with her candidacy - rammed
NAFTA and welfare reform through Congress, throwing millions of people into
poverty. Yes, just remember that for a few moments right out of college, she
worked at a non-profit. 

	This is truly the politics of hopelessness - a politics mastered by
a Clinton machine deft in all the dark arts of corruption and demagoguery. 

	It is a machine fueled by tens of millions of dollars of corporate
cash from moneyed interests looking for the kind of
<http://www.american.com/graphics/2007/june/copy_of_hf.jpg> candidate who
appears on the cover of Fortune magazine and
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBypp2hqxaQ> laughs at workers who were
crushed by Clinton administration policies. 

	It is a machine that is all too happy to champion a former president
who, according to today's Wall Street Journal, is happy to personally pocket
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120097424021905843.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
$20 million windfall from a well-connected crony.

	It is a machine headed by a candidate who pushed the country into
war, yet a candidate happy to attack an opponent for not opposing the same
war more strenuously. 

	It is a machine only too thrilled to use innuendo to
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/15/hillary_and_the_race_
card/> play the race card.

	It is a machine, in short, that is ready to once again prioritize
the ugliest impulses of two dynasty-seeking egomaniacs using vapid
soundbites (
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8tcMQCbWKZA&refer=home
> "I'm a hand's on leader") and intelligence-insulting slogans (
<http://epaper.eurekareporter.com/article/080115-bill-clinton-in-eureka>
"Delivering Real Change") to run
<http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-sirota/over-the-dead-bodies-again.htm
l> "over the dead bodies" of Americans hoping for something different.

 




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