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Thread #153553   Message #3596829
Posted By: GUEST,Stim
30-Jan-14 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's State of the Union Address, 2014
Subject: RE: BS: Obama's State of the Union Address, 2014
Bill, Songwronger's post is not from a right wing website, it is from a website that is created and maintained by the Socialist Equality Party (and has been for a long time).

The Socialist Equality Party are about as far from right wing as you can get, being what are often referred to as "Unreconstructed Trotskyites".

The fact that Songwronger often posts links to and posts text from this site ought to have given you a hint, long ago, as to his sympathies.(and, in case you didn't guess, he has pointed it out often enough!)

He regularly underscores the views of the SEP on Obama, which, from the Wikipedia article on them, can be summarized as:

"The Socialist Equality Party claims that the majority of left-wing opponents of the Bush Administration have "lined up behind the Obama Administration", despite the fact that the Obama Administration's policies are in many respects similar to those of the Bush Administration. The Socialist Equality Party seeks to create a mass movement in opposition to the Obama Administration on the basis of a Socialist program."

Obama, especially early on, had a lot of support from "Progressives"and, though it has been carefully redacted, from what
remains of the American Hard Left. From that perspective, a lot of what Obama has done seems accommodationist, if not an outright betrayal. I can appreciate that there would be a lot of bitterness and anger toward him. Even if there was no sense of betrayal, at least there would be a strong desire to show that he is advancing the agenda of capitalism rather than the agenda of the workers struggle.

If this is wrong, SW, please set the record straight...