Obama the neoliberal – the bottom line on Barack

At TPM Café, Jim Sleeper does an EXCELLENT job of explaining how Obama really is a neoliberal in many ways, and will likely get trapped in a neoliberal cage of covernance.

How’s his post playing at TPM?

Obamiancs, whom I say will never learn, let alone digest, the old Latin phrase “caveat emptor,” are accusing Sleeper of navel-gazing or worse.

My response, posted there:

To all of you who denigrate Sleeper, I think he's got some great insights.

I don’t know that Obama is as much a neolib as the Slickster was, but, everybody who chants “change” like a Transcendental Meditation mantra will be surprised in a year or two, assuming Obama gets elected.

If George H.W. claimed to be a “kinder, gentler, conservative,” Obama will, whether he makes the claim or not, likely try to govern as a “kinder, gentler neoliberal.”

Or an updated neoliberal version of Jimmy Carter.

Caveat emptor indeed, but most buyers there probably will never check the label.