Critics Wrongly Project Obama as Another President CarterRandy Shawbyline‚ Feb. 25‚ 2008With Barack Obama heading toward clinching the Democratic nomination on March 4, his critics are making the case for voters’ remorse. Last week, Alexander Cockburn in The Nation and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman both analogized Obama to Jimmy Carter, whose failed presidency set back the progressive cause for decades. Both writers have been consistently skeptical of Obama, with Krugman’s hostility so overt that some wondered if he had been promised a job with the now disappearing Hillary Clinton Administration. But the fact that both would compare Obama to a 1976 candidate with little history of supporting unions, who lacked sympathy toward the problems of urban America, and who progressives consistently opposed shows that it is not only Republicans who are hoping Obama fails. |