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August 04, 2009

A great indictment of Obama the neolib

Salon’s Michael Lind nails his hide to the wall and explains why you shouldn’t really be expecting that much out of him.

A sampling:
The fact that Robert Rubin's son James helped select Obama's economic team may not be irrelevant.

Well, I don’t know if Michael was deliberately being tongue in cheek or what, but, his next sentence is:
Instead of the updated Rooseveltonomics that America needs, Obama's team offers warmed-over Rubinomics from the 1990s.

He then plays this out in more detail in three areas — healthcare, education and the environment.

His bottom line? Obama needs “deprogramming” from the cult of neoliberalism.

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