ce jour<\/a>. Dans ce cas, la vision syst\u00e9matiquement pessimiste du site trotskiste nous est tr\u00e8s utile puisque, d\u00e9barrass\u00e9e de toute illusion et particuli\u00e8rement attentive aux r\u00e9alit\u00e9s du syst\u00e8me derri\u00e8re les apparence rh\u00e9toriques, et bien inform\u00e9e \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, elle nous restitue dans le cas d’Obama par rapport au syst\u00e8me une image r\u00e9aliste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbDespite the attempts of the media, in the wake of his caucus victory, to build up Obama as an insurgent figure, the senator from Illinois is anything but. He has been assiduously promoted by sections of the Democratic Party establishment since his US Senate campaign in 2004, when he was given the role of keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHis top campaign staffers are largely drawn from Democratic congressional circles, particularly those linked to former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbObama’s presidential campaign raised more money than any Democrat in history in the year preceding the general election. While Internet fundraising from small donors accounted for a well-publicized portion of this, the bulk came in large donations from well-heeled financial backers of the Democratic Party, who boosted Obama’s credibility as a presidential contender when he topped Hillary Clinton’s quarterly fundraising totals last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA profile last year in the Washington Post described his key fundraisers in these terms: veterans of the Democratic financial establishment: a Hyatt hotel heiress, a New York hedge fund manager, a Hollywood movie mogul and a Chicago billionaire. His billionaire supporters include investor Warren Buffett, currency speculator George Soros, hedge fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones and the Henry Crown family. Obama raised more money on Wall Street than either Hillary Clinton or former New York mayor and Republican candidate Rudolph Giuliani.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere is no doubt that the increased turnout in Iowa and the heavy vote for Obama among young people reflect popular hostility to the Bush administration and the war in Iraqwhich both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, Obama’s principal rivals, voted to authorize in 2002. But the beneficiary of this popular sentiment is a conventional bourgeois politician whose program and political appeal do not challenge in the slightest the consensus of American big business politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbObama specializes in hollow rhetoric about hope, change and unity, exemplified by his remarks Thursday night after he was declared the winner in Iowa. The very emptiness of his appeal makes it possible for voters opposed to Bush and disgusted with figures regarded as the old guard of the Democratic Party to project their desire for progressive change onto a politician who has no substantive differences with his Democratic rivals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhile he claimed Thursday night that, if elected, he would end the war in Iraq, Obama has refused to set any deadline for the withdrawal of American troops, not even by 2013, when he would be inaugurated a second time if elected this year and reelected in 2012. He has called for intensifying US military action in Afghanistan and crossing the border into Pakistan, and has echoed the Bush administration’s campaign of economic sanctions, diplomatic saber-rattling and military threats against Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbObama’s talk of choosing unity over division is calculated to obscure the reality of a class-divided society. There can be no genuine unity of interests between the class of multimillionaires and billionaires, who increasingly monopolize the national wealth and income, and the vast majority who work for a living and struggle to make ends meet.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe senator from Illinois has been promoted by elements in the American financial aristocracy because of his (relative to his peers) rhetorical polish, lack of connection to previous administrations, and bi-racial origins. Obama in the White House would not represent any fundamental change in the direction of US foreign or domestic policy, but he would, it is believed, put a new face on US imperialism, sorely needed after the debacle of the Bush presidency.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 5 janvier 2008 \u00e0 06H46<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il y a l’enthousiasme des milieux lib\u00e9raux-progressistes europ\u00e9ens (accompagn\u00e9 bien s\u00fbr par l’enthousiasme de la presse MSM s\u00e9duite par les th\u00e8mes simplistes) pour la victoire d’Obama en Iowa, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral applaudie d’une part parce que le candidat est Africain-Am\u00e9ricain (en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, bi-racial selon le terme politically correct puisque de m\u00e8re blanche et de p\u00e8re noir),… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4679,6208,7348,3952],"class_list":["post-69574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-liberal","tag-obama","tag-progressiste","tag-wsws"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}