Obsession with bipartisanship
by hakmao, 2 March 2008
So Barack Obama is planning, should he become the next US President, a ‘government of all the talents’. What a load of cock–not to mention proof, for those who are still not convinced, that the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties are vanishingly small. Political enemies–the manifestation of opposing social forces–are to be defeated, not for holding hands and a quick fumble behind the bike-sheds. The two parties are strands of the same milieu–whatever the outcome, the business of USA Inc carries on regardless.
Sunday 2 March 2008 at 22:12
Hak, with all due respect, that makes no sense.
Are you trying to tell me that there should be no common ground between Democrats and Republicans? What about Democrats who want to see success in the war against Al Qaeda getting together with Republicans who don’t subscribe to blind Islamophobia and who (in McCain’s case, at least) have a liberal attitude to issues such as climate change and immigration?
In the same way that there is common ground between hard left and hard right, surely there has to be some between centre right and democratic left.