[GPSCC-chat] If a Republican Were President, Millions Would be Marching

[Brian Good]

Robert
 Scheer: "If a Republican were president, there would be millions of 
properly 
coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy
 Wall Street 
marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want. With 25 million 
Americans unable to find 
full-time work... and an all-time high of 46.2 million ... living 
in 
poverty, the call to throw the bums out would be compelling.... Instead,
 we're left 
with a Democratic president who soothes our rage with 
promises of decent-paying 
jobs that in actuality are being vigorously 
exported from our shores by the 
president's top corporate
 backers....  Obama has failed not because he is a 
progressive in the mold of Franklin
 Delano Roosevelt but because he is not. He has 
blindly followed the 
lead of George W. Bush in bankrupting the nation by throwing 
money at 
Wall Street while continuing to fund wildly expensive and unneeded wars." 


He concludes that a Republican president would recommit to the Project for a New
American Century agenda of Pax Americana, but that more Obama would be nothing
but "slow torture" and he prefers to support #OWS as "an inspiring alternative."

http://www.thenation.com/article/163967/if-republican-were-president









 		 	   		  
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