Does this look like a comment expanded into a dairy? Morning ramblings inspired by TheHater’s late night ramblings:
Hill or Bama, 2009 Summarized (0.00 / 0)
It is sad to see the left fantasizing hope about either Hillary or Obama. But in the real ‘liberal’ networld (everywhere outside mydd.com) the only people doing that are Obamamaniacs.
On the two big issues I’ve focused on here’s what I think Hillbama would do:
Bama: Based on who his major donors are, who his major advisors are, and on what Obama has said repeatedly, he’ll use his first 100 days ‘grace period’ to bipartisanly compromise with the Republicans and get some ‘deforms’ passed which will cutback on Medicare (whose costs truly are exploding) while instituting privatized so very expensive almost-universal health care, and cutback and partially privatize (with Wall Street managed mini-accounts) Social Security (‘I had to do it, the Republicans forced me; it was either that or we’d ‘soon’ have a ‘crisis’ on our hands.’)
Hill: With Hillaryrule (and despite her properly attacking Obama for his explicit pushing of privatization & ‘everything on the table’) we’d probably get nearly the same on Social Security. But we’d get a stalemate on health care, cuz the Republicans and conservative/Obama Dems would be less willing to let her pass privatized so very expensive ‘mandated’ universal health care. That would be bad, but good too, cuz the poor and old wouldn’t suffer those Medicare ‘compromise’ cutbacks.
Imperialism: Other than that, it’s a guessing game, except perhaps on imperialism. Obama would probably get us halfway (but that’s all) out of Iraq faster than Hillary. On the other hand, I think the media and ‘liberals’ would give him much much more leeway than they would give Hillary to be dynamically imperialist for the great God Corporate Globalization. So, that’s about a wash.
There are some good things, compared to McCain, that would probably happen. Better funding for environmental and infrastructure programs (but far less than promised, because Hillbama have probably already promised Wall Street that they’ll ‘discover’ a budget crisis soon after taking office (that ‘crisis’ will be the context for everything I’ve predicted here taking place)), and some of the tax cuts for the rich would be allowed to expire.
This is what we’re facing, at best, in 2009 and after. As a leftist, I’m feeling very gloomy about it. I have no idea why any true leftist would feel otherwise. So it’s not Obama it’s Obamamania that bugs me. Sorry I’ve been a party pooper.
‘Vote for me and I’ll make all yer wildest dreams come true.’ ~ Pedro
by fairleft @ Fri Feb 15, 2008 at 09:33:59 AM PST
