Obama's "New Kind of Politics"
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/7/29/223220/401
by psericks, Sun Jul 29, 2007 at 10:32:20 PM EST
Reading Populism2008's diary Obama's vision is not a consensus got me
thinking again about articulating what Obama means by a new kind of
politics. Too much confusion has been caused by the labels of 'post-
political' or 'post-partisan' that have been attached to Obama --- in
some cases by well-meaning and otherwise insightful accounts such as
in the New Yorker. Obama would certainly reject these labels himself.
These misplaced 'post-partisan' labels create a number of worries
among progressives: first, Obama would be too willing to compromise,
because his vision is for an America in which everyone just gets
along; second, Obama is naive in believing that our politics could
ever be changed; third, like Bill Clinton's presidency, Obama's
movement would be focused solely on his own personality and election.
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