Saturday, January 02, 2010
Here's bmaz at Firedoglake, writing from the left about the Obama campaign's tendency to run over any group on the left that didn't get on board (it's in the 9:40 PM comment): [I got] this nightmare scenario in my mind of Obama rolling through the election all shock and awe like and leaving all this behind him figuring he doesn’t even need to bother; they are discredited and he is king. We know that shock and awe was enough to take down the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq, but not enough to build something new and sustaining, hence the Surge in Iraq and the "please don't call it a surge" in Afghanistan. But did the Obama folks make the same mistake with the United States that Bush made with two foreign countries - assuming that if you could steamroll your way into the Capitol the rest would take care of itself? It's starting to look that way.
posted by gbarto at 10:40 AM
 
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