Given all this, can we expect a more enlightened, less bloody, more progressive and humane foreign policy from Mr. Barack Obama? Forget the alleged eloquence and charm; forget the warm feel-good stuff; forget the interminable clichés and platitudes about hope, change, unity, and America’s indispensable role as world leader; forget all the religiobabble; forget John McCain and George W. Bush … All that counts is putting an end to the horror — the bombings, the invasions, the killings, the destruction, the overthrows, the occupations, the torture, the American Empire.

Al Gore and John Kerry both took the progressive vote for granted. Neither had ever been particularly progressive themself. Each harbored a measure of disdain for the left. Both paid a heavy price for the neglect. I and millions like me voted for Ralph Nader, or some other third-party candidate, or stayed home. Obama is doing the same as Gore and Kerry. Progressives should let him know that his positions are not acceptable, keeping up the anti-war pressure on him and the Democratic Party at every opportunity. For whatever good it just might do.

Allow me to take that just a bit further. He’s the boss of a patronage machine that funnels corporate cash to “sympathetic” democrats. In other words, he’s a damned crook. A smooth-talking bagman and loyalty enforcer. Not just a canker, but a cancer on the party.

Full disclosure: I loathe him utterly, so I might tend to be somewhat biased.

the short version – Ward Connerly (orig a Reagan stooge) is an African American working against affirmative action – and made boatloads of cash doing it

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