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Klein candidly speaks about Obama and the intellectual and political integrity of the progressive movement.
Key quotes:
"Obama may have the energy and the anger and the networks of the antiwar vote, but he does not have a plan to get us out of Iraq."
"he may have the incredible, inspiring idealism of young environmentalists who are terrified about the future of this planet, but he does not have a green agenda that is a match to our climate crisis."
"Well, my concern is that you can't shut up for a little while. It doesn't really work that way. And look at the antiwar movement—where is it? There are really important exceptions, like Iraq Veterans Against the War, who are just decidedly independent and have such a clear position about immediate withdrawal. But then, if you look at an organization like MoveOn, this is an organization that built its huge membership—it wasn't born out of the Iraq War, but it built its huge membership out of the opposition to the Iraq War and really was a huge part of the antiwar movement. And now it is a huge part of the Obama machine, and they are telling people to vote Obama, and they're, you know, sending Obama bumper stickers. Well, Obama doesn't have a plan to end the war in Iraq, and MoveOn should be telling their members that."
As Klein notes, progressives need to start thinking about how to get Obama to come through on progressive ideals after the election. If not prepared the neoliberals will have their way.
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