racetoinfinity's Comments (588)

“You're correct...and it's continuing full speed ahead with neoliberal Obama (Bill Clinton II).”

“I'm going with both Wall St. and The Fed to blame. Are you separating their interest? Since Greenspan, and continuing with Bernanke (whose reconfirmation is a scandal), their interests have been identical.”

“Right-on post! We HAVE to insist on this, however it's done. Public financing of campaigns and strict lobbying rules are a good start. We are fast turning into a banana republic, and the buying of our government by the corporate plutocracy must be stopped!”

“I don't see Obama as some sort of "victim" on his knees, but as a willing neoliberal co-corporatist. I don't know where you get this "victim" meme for him?”

“He's not FAR better - he's better by a hair, which is not saying much.”

“For Barack Obama: a plaque for his White House desk with the trusim: "Money talks, and b.s. walks!"”

“You said it. The most important reformsm of all (if we EVER get them) will be public financing of campaigns and STRONG lobbying reform.”

“He ruined whatever progressive gains he had made in foreign policy with his Nobel war-mongering speech (and his escalation of the absurdly unwinnable (and damaging to this country on many levels) war in Afghanistan).

Obama is not a weak progressive; he is a faux-progressive. He put on the mask of a semi-progressive during the campaign, but -

In reality, he is a corporatist neoliberal, supporter of "free" markets and "free" trade, both of which have "successfully" fattened the corporate plutocracy's (the top 1%) bottom line while hollowing out (making poorer and more unemployed) the middle and working classes.”

“President Obama has been a disappointing neoliberal sell-out on all major fronts.
The Green Party is looking better and better every day, if this is what the Democratic party has to offer.

I want to publicize a revolutionary idea that Fahreed Zakaria spotlighted on his GPS show on CNN last Sunday:
Nathan Myhrvold's revolutionary idea to solve global warming -

Watch -

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/podcasts/fareedzakaria/site/2009/12/20/gps.podcast.12.20.cnn

or read -

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html”

“How right you are. Obama is a full-fledged neoliberal - a lot of us got the disappointing message right after his election when he appointed Geithner and Summers to head his economic team.”

“Sorry, but Clinton was a triangulating neoliberal (pro-"FREE"-market) with Robert Rubin on board as his Iago whispering "deregulate" in his ear for years.

If he'd vetoed it, it would have been an HONORABLE exit.

The American people gave him a high approval rating because we were in a bubble; they didn't foresee what the acts he signed in '99 and '00 would bring, which hell we (98% of us) are in at the moment.

Final point: Clinton himself now says he regrets signing the two bills
(The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 and The Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000).”

“But Bill had the horrendous sense to deregulate Wall St.”

“There are VERTICAL differences between levels as well as horizontal differences on levels - it's a matrix, not a flat spectrum.”

“The trick is to get the tea partiers to see that we have one party running the show the CORPORATE party, but I fear most of the populist rage on the right is wrong-headed. Here's what I wrote in response to Glenn Greenwald's column:

Perhaps the tea partiers are concerned about corporatism, but it seems to me they are largely unaware of it.

They don't seem to get the connection between government and what I call the plutocratic corporatocracy.

They are still being fed a bill of goods and believe, I think, that if they just get government "off their backs'; they can win the big lottery of business and become one of the ruling class.

I get your point that neoliberal (a la Clinton & Obama) government equates to corporate run government with some regulations and a bit more safety net, and conservative government equates to corporate run government without these, a small difference. But I don't see how you can get the tea partiers to wake up to the corporatism that is turning our country into a banana republic, when Dick Armey and Fox/Wall St. Republican operatives fill their not too bright heads with myths that it's an authoritarian government a la Stalin or Hitler that is their big, bad enemy, and that private corporations are their salvation. Maybe we can cull the more aware ones out who are outraged at the corporate takeover of our country."”

“Why hasn't Reid forced a reconciliation vote? I assume it's because he's bought and paid for by Big Corpa, too.
I'd like a list of the representatives in Congress who aren't bought and paid for by Big Business. I think there are about 80 in the House and maybe 4 in the Senate ??”

“Right - constant poplular use legitates previously incorrect usage. Right now, everyone says "lay down" for the instranstive "lie down."

I wonder if the dictionary assigns an intransitive type to "to lie" as well as a transitive type now.”

“No comment - there IS what is in front of us, no interpretation needed.”

“You said it, Viggo. And we need to stop our Obama-philia and struggle, including progressive protests, against the neoliberal agenda he is presiding over.”

“And you forgot one of the biggest let-downs, anti-progressive economic in-bed-with-Wall St. appointments Goldman Sachs' Geithner & Summers, Obama revealed as a sell-out member of the corporate plutocracy doing their bidding or close to it.”

“The most important (and sadly, depressing) post of the year. Thank you Bill McKibben - you are a true hero with integrity telling it like it is!”

“I'm talking about his political philosophy - free market, free trade - corporatist - neoliberal - he doesn't have to literally be a member of the DLC to share their "values."”

“Is this high school?”

“More evidence of the REAL reason we are in Afghanistan - oil and natural gas hegemony.”

“I agree.”

“correction - I meant to write that Bill Clinton is was a DLC neolib.”