2 mars<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abBarack Obama enters the final stages of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is preparing to detach the core voters of John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, with the same ruthless determination with which he has peeled off Hillary Clinton’s supporters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe scene is set for a tussle between the two candidates for the support of some of the sharpest and most independent minds in politics. Obama is hoping to appoint cross-party figures to his cabinet such as Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator for Nebraska and an opponent of the Iraq war, and Richard Lugar, leader of the Republicans on the Senate foreign relations committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSenior advisers confirmed that Hagel, a highly decorated Vietnam war veteran and one of McCain’s closest friends in the Senate, was considered an ideal candidate for defence secretary. Some regard the outspoken Republican as a possible vice-presidential nominee although that might be regarded as a stretch.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAsked about his choice of cabinet last week, Obama told The Sunday Times: Chuck Hagel is a great friend of mine and I respect him very much, although he was wary of appearing as though he was already choosing the White House curtains. But after winning 11 primary contests in a row after Super Tuesday, he is ready to elbow Clinton off the stage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bbObama believes he will be able to neutralise McCain by drawing on the expertise of independent Republicans such as Hagel and Lugar, who is regarded by Obama as a potential secretary of state.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbLarry Korb, a defence official under President Ronald Reagan who is backing Obama, said: By putting a Republican in the Pentagon and the State Department you send a signal to Congress and the American people that issues of national security are above politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbKorb recalled that President John F Kennedy appointed Robert McNamara, a Republican, as defence secretary in 1961. Hagel is not only a Republican but a military veteran who would reassure the troops that there was somebody in the Pentagon who understood their hopes, concerns and fears, he said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tObama nous pr\u00e9parerait donc un cabinet d’union nationale \u00e0 sa sauce, selon une formule \u00e0 l’am\u00e9ricaine pour des temps d’urgence mais selon des lignes bipartisanes classiques. Mais si nous sommes bien dans un temps d’urgence (crises diverses, de l’Irak \u00e0 la r\u00e9cession), nous ne sommes nullement dans un temps classique. (Il y a une forte nuance par rapport \u00e0 l’analogie \u00e9voqu\u00e9e JFK-McNamara. JFK nomma McNamara apr\u00e8s sa victoire, ce qui exclua McNamara, par ailleurs tr\u00e8s apolitique bien que r\u00e9publicain, de la campagne. Au contraire, la pr\u00e9sence de Hagel et de Lugar, hommes politiques, est annonc\u00e9e, si le projet se concr\u00e9tise, comme un facteur important de la campagne. Diff\u00e9rence d\u00e9cisive.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLe projet d’Obama, s’il est men\u00e9 \u00e0 terme, va paradoxalement marquer sa pr\u00e9sidence plus \u00e0 gauche bien qu’il fasse appel \u00e0 la droite (parti r\u00e9publicain) en l’occurrence. Les noms r\u00e9publicains qui sont avanc\u00e9s, surtout celui de Hagel, sont ceux de deux mod\u00e9r\u00e9s qui ont largement pris leurs distances d’avec l’administration GW Bush et de la clique qui la soutient (n\u00e9o-conservateurs et le reste). Dans ce temps de mont\u00e9e aux extr\u00eames, des mod\u00e9r\u00e9s qui montrent une r\u00e9serve claire (Lugar), voire une hostilit\u00e9 affich\u00e9e (Hagel) pour les extr\u00e9mistes type-neocons<\/em> et la politique qu’ils ont inspir\u00e9e, deviennent eux-m\u00eames des radicaux, par la simple relativit\u00e9 des positions (les neocons<\/em> ayant tenu le haut du pav\u00e9). Ils seront d\u00e9nonc\u00e9s dans ce sens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAu reste, il ne fait gu\u00e8re de doute qu’un homme comme Hagel est apparu ces deux derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es comme l’homme le plus audacieux dans son opposition \u00e0 la politique extr\u00e9miste des bushistes, ou le plus audacieusement critique de cette politique. Pour donner une \u00e9quivalence, on situera Hagel bien plus \u00e0 gauche que Hillary Clinton, parce que bien plus critique qu’elle durant ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es de cette politique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale belliciste de l’administration Bush. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tDans ce cas, d’une fa\u00e7on assez significative, la candidature d’Obama prend effectivement l’allure d’un rassemblement anti-guerre, avec toutes les nuances qu’on imagines, mais en restant \u00e9videmment dans les limites du syst\u00e8me, renvoyant aux al\u00e9as de la vie politique US o\u00f9 le conformisme exig\u00e9 par le syst\u00e8me n’est pas une mati\u00e8re avec laquelle on plaisante. Cela n’emp\u00eache pas le projet d’\u00eatre, m\u00eame dans ces limites, assez d\u00e9stabilisateur par rapport aux habitudes du syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 3 mars 2008 \u00e0 06H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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