So, who are his advisors? And what exactly has Obama said that makes him so different from Hillary?

I second that recommendation to read or listen to the Allan Nairn segment. Edwards may be making foes (seemingly anyways) with corporate special interests, but certainly not Military interests.

This lessor evil of the lessor evils trick that Soloman is buying or selling shouldn’t work on anyone who watched Kucinich not make one demand or appeal for platform as he bent over for the DNC in 04—-I predict Paul will do the same

No man owns the truth—just because someone with face time gets to say what most here seem to know, doesn’t mean he owns it and that he should be given mercy for betraying any or all aspects of it.

If Cindy Sheehan tomorrow said that she was considering taking impeachment off her table and invited Edwards to eat at it, I’d say forget her too…

Screw Dennis, I don’t care that he talks a better game than Howard Dean, the results are the same and it’s amazing that anyone is talking in glowing terms at all about Edwards or Gore (C’mon Nader, what hypocritical bullshit to support Edwards after everything you railed against Chomsky for doing to you)

When oh when will some of our “progressive” editors get wise that Norman Solomon is a fink? That he was a key promoter of the “ABB**” bs in 2004? and he’s pulling the same **** again this time.

Norman Solomon is nice looking, nice wavy hair, a qualified Featured Act in any Society Matron’s drawing room. But politically, he’s a noxious weed.

Yes, he’s a really skilled writer; he does write Prose, not typical Journalese. But he’s a shill for the other side, for the Status Quo.

Oh yeah, he writes highly informed whining about the State of the Media. Blah blah, so does everybody else from CJR to CSpan panelists from Harvard. But when it comes to the q. of Power, he’s there to see it doesn’t stray from the hands of the current Masters of the Universe.

Jezuzz H Kreist! Here we have this soldout MF busily detecting nuances between bunco pitches offered by the number two & the number three Ruling Class choices to be the next president. How obvious does it have to get that none of these turkeys get to run their rap on primetime TV unless they’ve been vetted and approved in Tel Aviv, AIPAC hq., and the highest reaches of Wall St*? Gimme a break.

*(Hmm, wonder who that’d be…?)

**”Anybody But Bush”

Published on Thursday, January 3, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Edwards Reconsidered by Norman Solomon /// SNIP.

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Norman isn’t as much a fink as is Kucinich for his endorsement of Yo Mama. Dennis K has really run a limped wrist campaign. Norman has never disengaged from a system that he naively believes can be corrected. If people still registered Demo are going to vote in the primary, and that’s most of the folks left of center (which is not technically left of center as we know it), Edwards’s stated positions are far better than H & B’s, including rejoining the world court which Obismal would consider after speaking with the generals, given the large numbers of US bases and soldiers stationed around the world, he says, without a mention of what the fuck they are doing there.

Yeah, in power, the zios would present the bill and Edwards would see that–”what’s that?”–yes, he had already signed it. So it goes.

BTW, thanks for the Jews and Bhutto piece.I am being interviewed by Hisham Tellawi tonight on TV and was going to talk about the Bhutto-Zio connection.//// ———————->

(the phrase “limped-wrist” refers here of course to the Guaguanco Estilo Matanzas, as favored by the clave-supremacist Los Munequitos de Matanzas over the more familiar Estilo LaBana associated with Los Papines. –dan).

Check today’s Democracy Now segment with Allan Nairn http://www.democracynow.org/

The US policy sanctioned, promoted and enforced by each administration Dem/Repub is murderous. It’s pretty hard to find anything to reconsider since these want-a-be commander-in-chiefs have yet to give us any. Kucinich has lost his place as a principled progressive.

While I take issue with what I take to be your overly rose colored view of activism within the DP, I agree with your (provisionally) positive evaluation of the Edwards campaign-if not Edwards himself.

I think what needs to be stressed here is that this is not a matter of principle but of strategy and tactics: the kind of fundamental change we are take for granted as necessary needs to proceed in two steps. The first is rhetorical; the basic ideas-economic democracy, non-interventionist foreign policy, need to first become mentionable in the mainstream political discourse. Only after that has occurred will can we move to the second step whereby the ideas find substantive political expression.

It was the genius of Clinton to have reversed this process. Remember that the platform Clinton was elected on was “putting people first”. He then proceeded to govern by the principle “putting corporations first” and by the end of his presidency it was simply impossible to formulate even the mildest, new deal politics and Keynesian economics without appearing as if one was from the planet Mars. In other words, he began by first killing hope in the political realm, but more damaging eliminating from political discourse the vocabulary necessary to express it.

That said, I agree with Binh that it is quite possible that Edwards motivations are largely if not entirely cynical. Namely, he is trying to parlay the grassroots support for basic political decency into his own advancement.

But his doing so has the effect of returning to the mainstream discourse ideas which have been altogether unmentionable for over two generations that will count as a victory for us. It will not be a sufficient condition for us to move forward, but I would argue that it is a necessary one.

John

Kucinich’s role is similar, except he’ll never get a VP slot. His goal is to pre-empt any anti-war Nader-type third party run. He hopes to repeat his smashing success in 2004 in coopting progressives back into the party that opposes them and all they stand for. He is a shepherd who is preventing the sheep from straying to Greener pastures so that they stay in line for the slaughterhouse.

Hillary/Obama will win the nomination, Edwards and Kucinich will back the winner, and Solomon will follow Edwards and Kucinich and back the pro-war corporate candidate on grounds they are “the lesser evil.” We saw how well the lesser-evil strategy worked in ‘04, I can’t wait for the sequel in ‘08…