By Paul Street
ISBN-10: 1317263405
ISBN-13: 9781317263401
Many americans think Barack Obama represents a hopeful destiny for the US. yet does he additionally replicate the yankee politics of the earlier? This publication deals the broadest and best-informed knowing at the which means of the “Obama phenomenon” to date.
Paul road was once at the floor through the Iowa crusade, and his tales of the emerging Obama phenomenon are poignant. but the author’s heritage in American political background permits him to discover the deeper meanings of Obama’s outstanding political occupation.
He appears at Obama in terms of modern problems with category, race, conflict, and empire. He considers Obama within the context of our nation’s political heritage, with comparisons to FDR, JFK, invoice Clinton, and different leaders. road unearths that the Obama personality, crafted by means of crusade specialists and filtered via dominant media developments, mask the “change” candidate’s adherence to long-prevailing energy constructions and occasion doctrines. He exhibits how American political tradition has produced misperceptions through the citizens of Obama’s positions and values. Obama isn't any magical exception to the narrow-spectrum electoral procedure and ideological tradition that experience performed quite a bit to outline and restrict the yankee political culture.
Yet the writer indicates key ways that Obama very likely advances democratic transformation. highway makes tips on how voters can productively reply to and act upon Obama’s effect and the wider ancient and social forces that experience produced his famous person and relevance. He additionally lays out a true schedule for switch for the recent presidential management, person who addresses the new disasters of democratic politics.
This examine differs from prior books on Obama in at the least 3 ways:
(1) Street’s choice to provide a balanced yet severe review of the “Obama phenomenon” from a standpoint formed by means of years of engagement with Left conception and activism;
(2) Street’s attempt to appreciate the phenomenon in a deeply researched ancient, societal, and institutional context, always touching on Obama’s profession and candidacy to the continuing historic improvement and dilemmas of U.S. political tradition;
(3) Street’s skill to deepen his account by way of drawing on his enormous direct adventure with the phenomenon over years as a civil rights researcher and recommend at the south part of Chicago (2000-2005) and as a crusade activist in Iowa in the course of the lengthy and demanding Iowa basic (caucus) season of 2007-2008.
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That narrative, I shall argue, tells at best very partial truths. At worst, it is a cynically manufactured illusion whose acceptance by many reflects the moral and ideological poverty of a dominant political culture that privileges image over substance. The Obama portrayed in this study follows in the corporate-triangulationist “third way” footsteps of similarly pseudoprogressive politicians like Bill Clinton, who made, in the words of the noted left scholar Edward S. S. political culture goes back further than the corporate-neoliberal era in which Obama came of political age.
Kennedy figures into this shift. JFK’s frequently declared sympathies for the poor and working class “invariably took a back seat,” according to Bruce Miroff, the author of the brilliant study Pragmatic Illusions: The Presidential Politics of John F. ” As Miroff noted, Political calculation led Kennedy to appease the corporate giants and their allies in government. Economic doctrine told him that the key to the expansion and health of the economy was the health and expansion of those same corporate giants.
In his candidacy announcement, Obama said, “They write the checks and you get stuck with the bills; they get the access while you get to write a letter; they think they own the government, but we’re here to take it back. The time for that politics is over. S. politics and policy? Without forgetting that campaigns and legislative careers do not completely or always reliably predict presidential policies, I suggest in this chapter that an Obama White House could be expected to tilt toward elite economic interests—its leading inhabitant’s onetime populist rhetoric aside—unless and until it was compelled to behave otherwise by an aroused and organized citizenry.
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