| Obama On and Off Base
Goodheart, Eugene
Dissent, Summer 2010, online edition
"My object is to defend Barack Obama against attacks on him by what has been his liberal constituency. Again and again he is accused of timidity and excessive caution for not fighting for their agenda. The assumption is that his agenda and theirs coincide, and that he lacks the courage and force to fight for its enactment. Could it be that he simply differs from his critics about policy and strategy and that it may even take a kind of courage to resist the pressure of his liberal base?"
Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross professor of Humanities, Emeritus at Brandeis University.
Go to the article at:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=3268
C1/03-10. Posted August 20, 2010
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