Posted by Andrew Gelman on October 19, 2008 09:10 PM|Permalink
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of course it is! is that a serious question? Campaign rhetoric and Jonathan Alter aside, Obama represents the “progressive” wing of the upwardly mobile investor class. He’s already voted to reauthorize the Patriotic Act, also remember FISA, and rejected Public Campaign Financing. The GOP is soft-fascism. (No hyperbole either.)
You listed the crimes committed by Obama, then went on to describe the GOP as soft-fascist. Well, apparently, it cuts both ways. (Meanwhile, libertarians, almost universlly considered “conservative” by liberals, hated those very things the non-GOP Obama supported.)
Public Campaign Financing is a gift to incumbents and the established parties and above all welfare for politicians.
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of course it is! is that a serious question? Campaign rhetoric and Jonathan Alter aside, Obama represents the “progressive” wing of the upwardly mobile investor class. He’s already voted to reauthorize the Patriotic Act, also remember FISA, and rejected Public Campaign Financing. The GOP is soft-fascism. (No hyperbole either.)
Posted by: pds | October 20, 2008 12:59 AM
pds,
You listed the crimes committed by Obama, then went on to describe the GOP as soft-fascist. Well, apparently, it cuts both ways. (Meanwhile, libertarians, almost universlly considered “conservative” by liberals, hated those very things the non-GOP Obama supported.)
Public Campaign Financing is a gift to incumbents and the established parties and above all welfare for politicians.
Posted by: Dain | October 21, 2008 03:42 PM