It All Depends On What You Mean By ‘Progressive’
Jan 29th, 2008 at 6:27 am by Susie
Ted Glick at the Black Agenda Report:
Independent-minded progressives need to be clear about Barack Obama: he is not one of us.
Last week I happened to see an article which compared Hillary Clinton’s voting record in the U.S. Senate with Obama’s. I remember the numbers: 82.5 vs. 79.8. The numbers placed them on a most conservative (1) to most liberal (100) scale in relationship to others in the Senate. (Keep in mind that 55 members of the U.S. Senate last year were Republicans, and it’s not exactly a progressive institution.]
I don’t remember whether Clinton or Obama had the higher 82.5 rating, but it really doesn’t matter given the closeness of the two numbers.
As African American author and activist Kevin Gray has written, there should be no doubt about it: Obama is cut from similar cloth as Bill and Hillary. He’s a Democratic Leadership Council man. Progressives beware.
Go read the whole thing.
Amen. Democrats have developed and the media has fostered a personality cult around both Obama and Clinton> Just like Rethugs did with gdubya.