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Thread #116623   Message #2506610
Posted By: Stu
03-Dec-08 - 04:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama moving to the right?
Subject: RE: BS: Obama moving to the right?
"I really see nothing to criticize to date though."

But he should be open to scrutiny and criticism from day one: he's a politician and there should be no sacred cows in politics, and his and his team's actions should be examined in detail and questioned robustly.

A word to the wise: Here in the UK in 1997 Tony Blair won a landslide majority and the country finally believed it had shaken of the shackles of the Thatcherite politics of negativity and social inequality. We were wrong. Hoodwinked by a slick promo machine and a man who wasn't the friend of the ordinary people we thought he was. He did some serious good whilst in office but never tackled the underlying problems in our society, and we're all still paying for it.

Make you man accountable. Make sure he knows everyone is watching and questioning. I personally think there's one hell of an opportunity here, it's going to be up to you to make sure it happens.