This is a long article, I found at Daily Puma. The World Socialist Network makes its case for a third party - The Socialist Party. Seems Obama is too Bush Lite for them. Both the left and the right giving O grief.
Actually they make a good case - we do need a third party, just not another far left one. We need a party that actually represents the interests of centrists - like Hillary.
Obama’s poll numbers plummet By Jerry White 3 September 2009
Widespread anger has also been generated over the continued trampling of basic democratic rights. The administration has gone to court to quash challenges to domestic spying, renditions and CIA torture, while protecting the Bush administration from any legal consequences for its war crimes and violations of international law. While Obama has insisted he is not interested in “looking backwards” by investigating and prosecuting anyone for torture, according to a new CBS News Survey half of the American public say such an investigation is a good idea. The same CBS poll showed that less than half (48 percent) of respondents said they approved of Obama’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan, down from 56 percent in April. Support for increasing troop levels in Afghanistan is declining, the CBS poll showed, with 41 percent saying they want American troops to start coming home, up from 33 percent in April and just 24 percent in February. Support for increasing the number of troops dropped from 39 percent in April to just 24 percent now. The poll results, CBS News reported, “are at odds with what NATO and US commanders on the ground say they need.” The administration has already signaled its willingness to send more troops in defiance of popular opposition fueled by record numbers of US casualties and the brutal and colonial character of the war itself. Most Americans (55 percent) think the situation in Afghanistan will get worse in the next six months, up 14 percent over the past month, according to the Rasmussen poll. Popular disgust extends beyond the White House. According to the Rasmussen poll, 57 percent would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again, while only 25 percent of respondents said they would keep the current legislators. Forty-two percent say people randomly selected from the phone book could do a better job than the current Congress. As a result of this popular discontent, political analysts say the Democrats—who control both houses of Congress by wide margins—could lose 20 or more seats in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. The prospect of the right wing making gains—just two years after the Republicans suffered their worst electoral debacle in decades—is attributable to the continued subordination of the working class to the Democratic Party, and the lack, as of yet, of a mass socialist party of the working class. This subordination is abetted by various middle class organizations and publications such as the Nation that insist that Obama must be supported at all costs. These same groups, which peddled illusions in Obama before his election, now stand politically responsible for one of the most reactionary governments in US history.
Millions of people—who have been moved to the left by the impact of the economic crisis, the unending wars and the attack on democratic rights—are now seeing that it is impossible to effect a political change within the framework of a two-party system dominated by big business and the banks. The only way working people can champion their own class interests—the fight for social equality, democratic rights and an end to militarism—is to open up a new political road through building the Socialist Equality Party as the mass socialist party of the working class. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/poll-s03.shtml
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It's refreshing to see that someone is keeping up with the facts about BO, not just the rosy picture he and his minions painted and continue to paint about himself and his "administration."
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WOW the kool aid is really wearing off. First of all the American people would be outraged if he even thinks of proscuting Bush plus it leaves the door open for it to come back on him. I am glad to see the socialists don't like him but I hope he doesn't start listening to these nut jobs.
plus it leaves the door open for it to come back on him.
This is so true HMG. I honestly never thought of that. If Bush or any of his cronies, including that A-hole Cheney (sorry if that's to van Jones like, but I find Cheney more objectionable than most pols) deserved prosecution, then a special prosecutor should have been appointed and an investigation launched much earlier. Lord knows no expense was spared to investigate everything Bill and Hillary did or said during their years at the wh.
I don't doubt that some in Bush's admin crossed lines, and that at one point, an investigation was warranted. But, since no one in our government had the guts to call for one, if in fact there was enough evidence to do so (and I don't know that there was), then that ship has sailed.
One thing's for sure - unless things change, Obama will never have to worry about anone calling for an investigation of him- unless it's the general public, concerned citizens like us. Neither the media nor others in government will take a stand against him in an adequate and public way. Everyone's to worried about getting re-elected. We seriously need to refuse to re-elect almost everyone in Washington. We need to make it clear that we are sick of the trade-offs and pay backs - where legislation is bargained away for the benefit of the elected official. We need them to grow a spine, stand up for this country, and do the right thing - not the politically advantageous thing.
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