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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (44557)12/17/2007 12:30:14 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 540820
 
And nothing Mr. Obama has said suggests that he appreciates the bitterness of the battles he will have to fight if he does become president, and tries to get anything done.

I don't think Krugman is being entirely fair here. There were some pretty bitter battles in the Illinois legislature when he was there. And he's fought some pretty bitter battles just by virtue of being black. Edwards' blantant populist speech about "confronting" industrial powers is speech. Not action. You can't just ignore vested interests as powerful as the drug and insurance sectors. What really matters is what happens at the table when you sit down with them. And when that happens, I don't think thumbing your nose at them will be very productive. What in some sense needs to happen is that a different role must be found for them in a different social order. We are evolving into something different, either willingly or not willingly--that much is, IMO, certain. If nothing else, both the change in the relative balance of power (political and economic) internationally and the environmental changes that will only become clearer with time will force some pretty dramatic changes on our social order. Personally, I'd rather have a guy like Obama having more of a say in that change than Edwards.
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