Ben Schultz,DDS

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:03:03 +0000

In reply to excerpt of some of Shenk's

Ben Schultz,DDS

Fairfield, CTOct. 8

When I first heard Mr. Obama, at the 2004 Democratic convention, I couldn’t wait to vote for him, but I didn’t think or expect it to be 4 years later. He was too young and much too unseasoned. Being in the Senate for another two terms would probably have provided this seasoning, allowing him to see the true colors of the right-wing politicians who refused to lift a finger to help him help Americans. He would have been able to see through their cynicism and their drive for power at any cost; he would not have given the healthcare of this country into the hands of the incredibly unethical “health insurance “ industry. For a leader to be successful, (he) has to be the right person, at the right time, for the right reasons. While two out of three ain’t bad, they do not describe success.

excerpt of some of Shenk's

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:29:08 +0000

In reply to A Lost Manuscript Shows the Fire Barack Obama Couldn’t Reveal on the Campaign Trail

excerpt of some of Shenk's text; in the op-ed itself, these function as notes to readable pictures of the Obama text -

[....] reading “Transformative Politics” today is a bracing experience.

Speaking with a candor he would soon be unable to afford, Mr. Obama directed his fire across the entire political spectrum. He denounced a broken status quo in which cynical Republicans outmaneuvered feckless Democrats in a racialized culture war, leaving most Americans trapped in a system that gave them no real control over their lives. Although his sympathies were clearly with the left, Mr. Obama chided liberals for making do with a “rudderless pragmatism,” and he flayed activists — with the civil rights establishment as his chief example — for asking the judiciary to hand out victories they couldn’t win at the polls. Progressives talked a good game about democracy, but they didn’t really seem to believe in it.

Mr. Obama did. With the right strategy, he argued, Democrats could engineer a political realignment that would begin a new chapter in the country’s history.

Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher summarized their central arguments on the first page of this outline for “Transformative Politics,” the manuscript they hoped to turn into a book.

Later on, the outline addresses failures on the right, but Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher began with their primary focus — the American left.

Convinced that liberals had lost their way, Mr. Obama and Mr. Fisher argued for a renewed commitment to democracy, starting with the difficult and often messy work of coalition building [....]

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Ben Schultz,DDS

excerpt of some of Shenk's