Obama’s Wisconsin Betrayal » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Obama’s Wisconsin Betrayal » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Obama needs the people who enthused over him four years ago to enthuse over him again; that’s where the votes are.  And so we can count on him trying to reel the base back in.  Therefore expect more of what we got two weeks ago on gay marriage: encouraging words.  Some of those words may even come packaged in a vaguely populist register.
And why not?  There is no percentage, after all, in pissing potential voters off or in offending labor leaders, especially when they are prepared, as always, to mobilize their members to do yeomen’s work in behalf of Democratic candidates.  Obama needs the active support of the old lib-lab coalition; he knows that without it Democrats will get “shellacked” again, and he along with them.
But the last thing he or Wasserman Schultz or any other national Democrat wants is for the people to call the shots.  It’s not just that they want to run the goings on from the top down as in 2008.  More than that, they want to make sure that popular mobilizations don’t get out of control – to the point that they threaten the interests of the fraction of the one-percent whose favor Obama and the DNC assiduously court. Read Full Article Here | Counterpunch: