[Marxism] Last minute stab by rightist Dobson against Obama

[Mark Lause]

I don't think voting for a bourgeois party makes you a popular
frontist.  If memory serves, a popular front historically involves
people in a workers' party entering a front with a bourgeois party.
So, it seems to me that being a popular frontist would be way to the
left of what we're discussing here.

The essential point here doesn't even require addressing the question
of party.  To use the old analogies I raised, it might have been quite
reasonable for abolitionists to have supported an antislavery Whig or
an antislavery Democrat or not to have run an independent abolitionist
candidate against them.

So, even allowing for the much more coherent and standardized
structure of modern political parties, the question seems reasonable
if we had a genuine radical running on a major party ticket.  And,
yes, things are parched in the desert of American politics.

So let's just look for a straightforward liberal....

Does anybody seriously think that this is an honest description of
Obama?  And what evidence is there for that?

ML