<div dir="ltr">A new posting - <br><h3 class="" itemprop="name"><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/2015/05/history-lessons.html">History Lessons</a></h3><h3 style="color:rgb(0,102,0)">
</h3>  - from Zoltan Zigedy is available at:<br><span><a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></span><br>
<br><br>If you do not wish to receive these notices, e-mail: <i> <a href="http://mc/compose?to=zoltanzigedy@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>zoltanzigedy@gmail.com</span></a></i>   with "unsubscribe" in the subject box.<br><br><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Remember
in 2009, when the then White house chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,
labeled the “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party “f**king
retards”? Without Emanuel's notoriously crude bluster, President
Obama expressed a similar sentiment on April 23 in public remarks on
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. </span></span><div style="margin-bottom:0.04in">
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<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">According
to MSNBC, President Obama said: “Some of these folks [opponents of
the TPP] are friends of mine. I love them to death. But in the same
way that when I was arguing for health care reform I asked people to
look at the facts – somebody comes up with a slogan like ‘death
panel,’ doesn’t mean it’s true. Look at the facts. The same
thing is true on this. Look at the facts. Don’t just throw a bunch
of stuff out there and see if it sticks...” </span></span>
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<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Obama's
comparison referencing the “death panels” concocted by the
lunatic right did not go unnoticed by his critics from labor and the
left. Most objected that comparing their opposition to TPP to the
ravings of crazies hardly suggests the sentiments of a friend. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Of
course this is an old story. Since the defeat of Walter Mondale in
1984, the founding of the Democratic Leadership Council and numerous
associated think-tanks, the Democratic Party has moved smartly and
steadily rightward, shedding any semblance of New Deal or Great
Society progressivism. During the Obama years, the process has
reached a point where the Democratic Party's meager left wing
pretends to represent the Party's soul while the leadership pretends
to welcome its views. On occasions like the TPP incident, the
leadership fumbles the script and reveals its true feelings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Sadly,
few lessons are drawn from this experience or the pattern of contempt
and derision demonstrated by the party's corporate coddling
leadership...   <b><i><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"> TO READ MORE, GO TO: <br>                        <a href="http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/">http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/</a></span></i></b></span></span>
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