DIGG THIS Here is an interesting article by Norman Solomon on Barack Obama’s supposed betrayal of his “progressive” electoral agenda. I love the last sentence. But the author has it all wrong. Obama’s adoption of the pragmatic “ideology of no ideology” is the oldest flim-flam scam in the book. Barack Obama, by his tentative appointments and statements since the election, has demonstrated his true colors: he is an old-school corporate liberal, an Ur-Progressive in the mold of Herbert Croly or Walter Lippmann. Such Progressives, influenced by British Fabian “Social Imperialism” and Bismarckian state socialism in Germany, believed in government by … Continue reading The Obamascam