MB Civic

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1202-20.htm

David Sirota is a writer who worked on Ned Lamont’s campaign…

For progressives, this situation is perilous indeed. Obama is a candidate who has kept his record deliberately thin, who has risked almost nothing for the bigger movement, and in fact who has sometimes gone out of his way to reinforce dishonest stereotypes about the left. This is a man who has helped launch the Hamilton Project designed to undermine Democrats pushing for fairer trade deals. This is a man who belittled Paul Wellstone as merely a “gadfly.” This is a man who refused to lift a finger for Ned Lamont. Flocking to a candidate like that without demanding that he change only reinforces the damaging concept that our movement is a Seinfeld Movement about nothing.

I think a lot of us are crossing our fingers, hoping that the Dems won’t be a big disappointment … seems like you have to kiss the corporate Kings’ rings in order to get in good with the levers of control. Here’s hoping they’ll listen to the people’s voices.
– MAB