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This is pretty amazing coming from a progressive, especially one who fought for Obama's election, and (for whatever reason - who the hell knows) felt he had "such promise".

The following excerpts are from an article by Budowsky published in HuffPo in May. Judging from his comment about Bill, the author was not a fan. Guess he realizes, however, that whether progressives like it or not, a whole lot of other Americans are pretty crazy about the Clintons.

The crux of the problem . . .
05-May-10
Brent Budowsky:
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The greatest threat to the Democratic Party and progressivism in America is the lobbyist-industrial complex that always obstructs true change, always seeks to destroy the greatest programs for reform, and always poisons and corrupts whatever it touches with the corrosive stench of money that buys government and greed that destroys change.

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It was the Republicans whose philosophy of anything goes, laissez-unfair, Darwinian distortions of capitalism that have nothing to do with capitalism, or freedom, or democracy, that did the most to cause the crash of our times.
The sheer gall of Republicans wrapping this travesty in the flag of our nation, draped in the words of capitalism and freedom, is only exceeded by the sheer stupidity of Democrats who take money from the same interests, and fail to fight for the true reforms, and surrender the public outrage against economic injustice to the phonies and charlatans and yes, a fair number of bigots, of right wing partisans and what is called the tea party movement, who the patriots of Boston in 1776 would sue for slander if they were here today.
But it was the Democrats who created the conditions of the crisis when a Demcorat was President in the late 1990's and made a Faustian bargain with Republicans, fueled by Wall Street money, fomented by Wall Street greed, in a bipartisan destruction of the reforms put in place in the 1930's to prevent another Great Depression.
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The President I worked so hard to elect is fond of saying, along with his accolytes who visit the cable news in the guise of being Democratic strategists, often taking Gilded Age money unknown to their viewers, that "the left and the right are both unhappy and this is good".
Well Mr. President and Mr. Emanuel, I will be damned if I will be equated in this public relations lexicon of triangulation alongside Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, as equal evils to be triangulated against by Democrats who insult the people who worked to elect them, and then wonder why many of these voters, insulted and demeaned once too often by Democrats they considered their friends, may not vote on election day.





-- Edited by freespirit on Friday 2nd of July 2010 11:49:33 PM