The disconnect between the heated rhetoric and recriminations and the narrow range of visible political differences draws one to the conclusion that more fundamental issues are being fought out behind the scenes and are driving the public conflict between Clinton and Obama.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes positions des deux candidats concernant la guerre de l’Irak sont ensuite rappel\u00e9es. WSWS.org<\/em> n’accorde gu\u00e8re de cr\u00e9dit \u00e0 Obama, qu’il estime \u00eatre compl\u00e8tement acquis \u00e0 l’esthablishment<\/em> et dont il juge la position assez proche de celle de Clinton malgr\u00e9 ses affirmations d’opposition \u00e0 la guerre en Irak. Mais l’analyse de WSWS.org<\/em> accorde une place consid\u00e9rable au symbole (\u00abBut as always in American politics, symbols play an immense role<\/em>\u00bb) et observe qu’Obama est devenu le symbole de l’opposition \u00e0 la guerre en Irak. A partir de l\u00e0, est-il conclu, oui les deux candidats s’opposent effectivement sur des mati\u00e8res de substance parce qu’ils repr\u00e9sentent bien deux partis qui s’opposent, deux fractions qui se d\u00e9chirent \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du parti d\u00e9mocrate. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abIt seems that sections of the US political and foreign policy establishment who are deeply worried and bitter over the foreign policy debacle in Iraq, and frustrated by their inability to effect a change in policy through the more established leadership of the Democratic Party, have promoted Obama and rallied behind his campaign as a means of forcing a change in course in Iraq and the broader Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe prominence of Iraq in this year’s Democratic primary contest stands in stark contrast to previous elections. In the 2002 congressional election, the Democrats sought to exclude Bush’s drive toward war in Iraq from the campaign. They welcomed a vote on his authorization of force resolution in October of that year in order to get Iraq off the agenda in advance of the November election.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn the 2004 presidential election, Democratic candidate John Kerry did everything he could to distance his campaign from the growing popular opposition to the war.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBy the time of the 2006 congressional elections, the Democrats could not avoid raising the issue of Iraq. They owed their rout of the Republicans and return to power in both houses of Congress to mass antiwar sentiment that they neither encouraged nor welcomed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn the run-up to the 2006 congressional elections, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group was formed to publicly lobby for a shift in policy, including a diplomatic initiative that would include Iran and Syria, not to end the war, but to avert an outright US defeat and salvage what could be salvaged from the colonial adventure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut the hopes of those Democratic insiders who were pressing for a change of course were dashed by the refusal of the Democratic congressional leadership to take up the Iraq Study Group’s proposals or mount any serious opposition to Bush’s war policy. Moreover, the cowardice of the Democratic Congress and its complicity in the war aroused immense anger among Democratic voters, intensifying the crisis within the party establishment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUnable to effect a change of course through internal pressure, these forces are evidently, through the Obama campaign, taking their factional struggle into the public arena and making an appeal to the broader population. They have rallied behind Obama because they view Clinton as inalterably linked to the disastrous Iraq war and because, as numerous Democratic commentators have explained, they see in Obama, an African-American with less political baggage than his opponent, an opportunity to present a new image of America to the world.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 28 f\u00e9vrier 2008 \u00e0 14H11<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Que repr\u00e9sente la bataille entre Clinton et Obama? Une r\u00e9ponse \u00e9vidente est qu’il s’agit d’un affrontement de personnes et d’ambitions. Cela laisse le registre politique ouvert: y a-t-il un affrontement politique de fond entre Clinton et Obama? Dit autrement, cela implique de s’interroger pour savoir si les deux candidats repr\u00e9sentent des tendances politiques diff\u00e9rentes alors… <\/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":[934,6125,857,6208,5623],"class_list":["post-69717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-clinton","tag-democrate","tag-irak","tag-obama","tag-parti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717","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=69717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}