[Marxism] Question, Obama, racism

[Linda Jansen]

*Mr. Friedman says this:  *

"To a very large degree, then, the election will become a direct
referendum on racism and white privilege."

*It seems parochial of people in the U.S. not to notice that Obama has not
been in solidarity with the people of color in Palestine.  **There are many
reasons to suspect former CIA analysts of perfidy, but the logic in their
article (linked below) on Nader seems correct.

*http://www.counterpunch.org/christison03012008.html

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> Secondly, Obama has taken an extremely immoral stand on the
> Palestinian-Israeli issue by, among other positions, actually applauding
> Israel's siege and starvation of 1.5 million innocent Gazans, and by
> mourning Israel's losses to Palestinian rocket fire (12 people in seven
> years) without bothering even to mention the approximately 2,600 Gazans
> killed by Israeli rocket fire, airstrikes, and assassinations in those same
> seven years. He made one reference last year to Palestinian suffering, was
> immediately dumped on by Jewish leaders, and has since said nothing honest
> about the occupation -- not even expressing support for the two-state
> solution.
>