Obama, Clinton or Mckinney? The Progressive choice is clear

Comparison of Obama & Cynthia McKinney: Who is the Real Progressive Candidate?

• THE ORGANIZER NEWSPAPER, March 14, 2008
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EDITORIAL

Barack Obama is creating a buzz on the political scene such as we have not seen in a long time -- particularly among Black voters and youth. He is forging an electoral grassroots movement that is channeling a lot of the discontent of the American people with the powers-that-be.

Speaking in San Antonio, Texas, on the eve of that state's primary election, Obama sharply denounced the "Bush-McCain course, which threatens a century of war in Iraq, a course where we will spend billions of dollars a week that could be used to rebuild our roads and our schools, and to take care of our veterans and send our children to college."

Obama went on to decry "four more years of tax breaks for the rich, with the argument that we should give more to those with the most and let the chips fall where they may ... in a course that further divides Wall Street from Main Street." He compared Hillary Clinton to John McCain, and said that both are good at "giving speeches but not at providing solutions."

Responding to Hillary, he said, "There is nothing empty about the call for affordable healthcare, or jobs at a living wage, or secure pensions, or ensuring the birth-right of every child in this country to live a full, healthy and safe life." And echoing the Rev. Jesse Jackson, he concluded, "Our task is to set the country on a new course, to keep hope alive, to keep promise alive!"

All this sounds fine and good, and many people across the country are buying into it. Obama is viewed as an outsider, a new kid on the block, someone who just might be able to shake things up. Working people and the poor are hurting; they are anguished. They are hoping against hope that Obama will make a difference.

What Are Obama's Policy Solutions? Obama's message for change is compelling, but the question people need to be asking is how does Obama expect to do all these wonderful things when all his actual policy solutions point in the opposite direction.

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