http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/31/why-obama/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/31/why-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-226412 a very public sociologist Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:44:08 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/31/why-obama/#comment-226412 The question is to what extent could an Obama administration be classed as progressive. For example, though it is likely he'll reverse Bush's obscene tax cuts for the wealthy, his economics advisors are the usual neo-liberal suspects who care only about enriching the have and hammering the have nots. That's not my idea of progressive politics. The question is to what extent could an Obama administration be classed as progressive. For example, though it is likely he’ll reverse Bush’s obscene tax cuts for the wealthy, his economics advisors are the usual neo-liberal suspects who care only about enriching the have and hammering the have nots. That’s not my idea of progressive politics.

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