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Exposed
Oh, no! Obama might not be so bad as those who try to convince conservatives that McCain is “the lesser evil” :
Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed 37-year-old Jason Furman to head his economic policy team. Furman is one of Wal-Mart’s most prominent defenders, anointing the company a “progressive success story.” On the campaign trail, Obama blasted Clinton for sitting on the Wal-Mart board and pledged, “I won’t shop there.” For Furman, however, it’s Wal-Mart’s critics who are the real threat: the “efforts to get Wal-Mart to raise its wages and benefits” are creating “collateral damage” that is “way too enormous and damaging to working people and the economy more broadly for me to sit by idly and sing ‘Kum-Ba-Ya’ in the interests of progressive harmony.”
Obama’s love of markets and his desire for “change” are not inherently incompatible. “The market has gotten out of balance,” he says, and it most certainly has. Many trace this profound imbalance back to the ideas of Milton Friedman, who launched a counterrevolution against the New Deal from his perch at the University of Chicago economics department. And here there are more problems, because Obama -who taught law at the University of Chicago for a decade - is thoroughly embedded in the mind-set known as the Chicago School.
The explanation can be also that this is part of the obvious break toward the center that the candidates have to do after the Primaries and before the general election, or that Obama was never that extreme left as his opponents try to portray him. Nevertheless, this is just confirming my arguments that He is less offensive than McCain.
Via LRC
Effective clip
A democratic response group posted this clip to youtube, and I have to say that it is pretty effective. I can’t see how such statements motivate fiscal conservative to bother voting for McCain. The absurd is that many time Obama sounds less offensive to free market advocates than McCain.
Democrats goals with such clips is not to convert McCain potential voters to Obama voters, but rather to make them less motivated to vote for McCain. When the question, which I reject this election, of choosing the lesser of two evil being asked I’m not sure that the answer is McCain, not at all.