Naomi Klein: "We Can't Let Obama Blow It"

Published on Saturday, June 13, 2009 by Alternet

The Financial Crisis Presents a Huge Opportunity for Change - We Can't Let Obama Blow It
There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.

by Naomi Klein

The following is the text of Naomi Klein's speech on June 3, 2009 at the America's Future Now conference in Washington. It has been edited for length and clarity.



(The previous speech by activist Gabriela Sanchez) made me think of this idea of whether we should have Obama's back, or whether we should be pushing him further. You know Bob says both, and I think that's a good answer, but I also want to say something else, which is, Rahm Emanuel has Barack Obama's back. He is a great politician, Obama. He's doing fine and has people like Gabriela Sanchez and the people who work with her, who need us to have their back. It's a basic principle. A solidarity.

The president of the most powerful country in the world is doing all right. But there are a lot of people in this country who are not doing all right, and we need to rediscover these basic principles of solidarity in this moment more than any other.

There's another reason for having Obama's back when he gets criticized, which is the corporate media in this country is insane. This city is crazy; I don't know if you know this. So he gets attacked for all kinds of things -- everything -- including many, many things that are not at all progressive.

So, if our job is to just protect him when he's getting attacked, then we're going to end up protecting him from all kinds of things that we don't actually believe in. We believe in a lot more than that.

more:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/13

Easily beats out Judd and Campbell and edges out Wolf.

Naomi rules

...is BEFORE handing over The Money.
AFTER they get the MONEY, there is no lever to force regulation....
...But Obama & our Politicians already know this.


NOW we have Your Children’s Money too !!!
And there is not a fucking thing you can do about it!
Now THIS is “Bi-Partisanship” !
Better get used to it!!
Hahahahahahahahaha!



There will be NO fundamental changes to our Economic/Banking System.
"Too Big to Fail" will NOT be addressed.
In fact, "Too Big to Fail" will now be the Ultimate Holy Grail of our Corporate Enterprises.

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