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Job creation is moribund. Both parties oppose creating them. Since Obama took office, 261,000 fewer exist. Tax cuts for the rich, banker bailouts, other corporate handouts, and permanent imperial wars come at the expense of popular needs gone begging.
Half the country is impoverished or bordering on it because both parties planned it that way. Obama's no less ruthless and heartless than Romney. He just hides it better.
Nation editors claim Democrats made a good start toward financial reform. Wall Street wrote the legislation. It benefits them. Grand theft remains policy. Neither party curbs it. Crooks when they're caught aren't punished.
Since crisis conditions emerged in fall 2007, no high-level corporate official faced prosecution. They're free to keep stealing because who'll stop them. The Libor scandal alone revealed government/banker complicity.
Nothing changed. The dirty game continues. It's institutionalized. Both parties endorse it without saying so. Nation editors pretend Democrats are different. They call Republicans liars.
They claim Obama's "telling the truth." Doing so reveals an agenda supporting his, and the worst of what political Washington represents.
On September 6, Nation's John Nichols headlined "Obama Manufactures an Argument for His Re-election," saying:
He stands in stark contrast to "Romney's empty rhetoric." His convention speech "touched the important themes" for reelection. He "made the case for himself as a job creator."
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