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President Obama's war on whistleblowers is generally an attempt to silence the stories that present the US in an unflattering (though true) light. Just mention
by grandalf 14y ago
President Obama's war on whistleblowers is generally an attempt to silence the stories that present the US in an unflattering (though true) light. Just mentioning this in case anyone thinks that Franken's quote indicates that the mainstream left actually shares Chomsky's principled stance.
- ap22213 14y agoAs a 'mainstream lefty', I feel pretty safe in saying that Obama has generally been considered by many of us as right of center.
- mistermumble 14y agoAgree. In another time, he would be a moderate Republican, in the time when the Republican party allowed moderates.
- grandalf 14y agoWell this may be true, but the mainstream left gives Obama a TON of slack on many of his worst policies.
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- RyanMcGreal 14y agoObama is not "mainstream left" or any other kind of left. He's best characterized as a moderate conservative. In Canada, where I live, Obama's beliefs would be considered to the right of our Conservative Party, which is considerably to the right of the Canadian mainstream but managed to win the last election because the centre and centre-left votes were split among three or four parties.
- grandalf 14y agoNo disagreement here. I used that term b/c in the US the mainstream left broadly supports Obama and many consider him to be part of it.