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Should Obama be challenged from the Left? The answer is yes; Obama needs to be held to account – but from a leftwing, not rightwing, direction. He has embraced and affirmed a centre-right world view utterly at odds with his 2008 presidential campaign, with its promises of 'change', 'reform' and a decisive break from the Bush-Cheney era. Liberals have given Obama a pass. Some avert their gaze; others proffer excuses. He needs more time, they say. But he has had 29 months in office. He is a good man in a bad world, they say, before blaming the Republicans for all America's ills. But it wasn't a Republican Congress that forced him, for instance, to double the size of the Bagram facility – where human rights groups have documented torture and deaths – and deny prisoners the right to challenge their detention. He did that on his own. Bagram is Obama's Guantánamo. |
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The Phony Left.
by joell lewis on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 7:56:43 PM
I don't read anything that says "Left"
by Mike Preston on Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 9:01:41 PM