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Lessig on Obama
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Any liberal (or sane moderate for that matter) would be crazy to say that we’re not better off today than we would have been had Obama not been elected. Of course we are. But that fact doesn’t negate the (still ignored by Sullivan et al.) criticism of the President: That he baited us with the reform rhetoric, and then switched to the administration promised by H. Clinton.
^ This.
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Hold your nose and vote?
As much as I’ve been disappointed on a lot of things, he’s done the best he can with the power he has. For example, health care: the bill that got passed was pretty crappy. But it passed by exactly one vote, which means he pushed it as far as he possibly could. One iota further, and it would not have passed.
The key problem is he doesn’t have the political support to do the kind of reform that he talked about.
Maybe if the Left here would get organized, he could get that kind of power. Unfortunately, it’s not happening.