[Marxism] 1992/2008 -- Obama deja vu

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A young, fresh-faced candidate, with a feisty,  savvy wife, takes the 
political world by storm. He is highly intelligent,  remarkably articulate, in sharp 
and ready command of the issues, with a winning  charm and the common touch -- 
in stark contrast to the aging, bumbling,  cantankerous dullard he faces in 
the election. He offers hope and change, a  whole new paradigm, a reinvention 
of politics as usual. He will take on the  vested interests, the lobbyists, the 
tired ideas and rampant corruption of the  Establishment. He will build a new 
international consensus, restoring America's  tarnished reputation and its 
moral leadership after years of covert ops, secret  wars, military adventurism, 
collusion with tryants, deceit and scandal. 

Yet he is no knee-jerk liberal, no throwback to the  divisive policies of the 
past. He transcends the rigid categories of left and  right. He embraces the 
sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan, the populism of Franklin  Roosevelt, the 
internationalist principles of Woodrow Wilson, the visionary  ideals of Abraham 
Lincoln. 

His candidacy  becomes a media sensation. His whiz-bang campaign staff 
employs new techniques  and technologies never seen in presidential campaigns 
before. He draws huge  crowds; big Hollywood names flock to his side, and he himself 
is frequently  compared to a rock star. His election -- a narrow but solid 
win -- is greeted by  his supporters as a new era, a new dawning for America.

The year, of course, is 1992.

Perhaps many of Barack Obama's supporters are too  young to remember, but the 
heady atmosphere of his transformative, transcendent  campaign is, in almost 
every particular, a replay of what we saw in Bill  Clinton's first 
presidential campaign. Clinton's supporters were just as  enthused about the 
world-altering, Republic-renewing potential that they  believed his candidacy represented. 
They too turned a blind eye to the many  aspects of the Clinton campaign that 
didn't comport with their hopes -- or else  justified those aspects as things 
that Clinton had to do or say in order to get  elected and then do great 
liberal things. 

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