<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb709ba8-4301-4722-8cb2-a877cfbd1c40/A8FDFAC9-2F83-4238-BE73-7F20E070C418/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14432" href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14432" style="font-size: 11px;">www.zmag.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14432"><H1>The Obama Disease: Business Rule, "Common Ground," and "P[l]aying the Fool"</H1> <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="AuthorBlock"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV id="Authors"> <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>by Paul Street </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> </TD><TD valign="bottom" align="right"><DIV id="DateNew"><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD>December 04, 2007</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14432"><DIV>He criticizes efforts to muster support for filibusters against the appointment of reactionary Supreme Court justices certain to assault civil rights and liberties. He speaks on friendly terms to far-right Evangelical "Christian" audiences and tours in the South with an openly gay-bashing preacher. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=90&ItemID=14432"><DIV>This is interesting "common ground" for the self-described "progressive" Obama to uphold. In pursuit of his purported goal of mending the nation's agonizing fractures, he is tilting to the right side of an all-too narrow party spectrum that is more about tactical differences within the governing class than overcoming the nation's most fundamental division – that between its populace and its power elite. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A8FDFAC9-2F83-4238-BE73-7F20E070C418/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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