Communist Economist John Case Praises Obama's Osawatomie Speech: 'The President Took A Great Step Forward'by Trevor Loudon
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One of the Communist Party USA’s leading economic commentators John Case, has come out in support of President Barack Obama’s recent agenda setting speech at Osawatomie High School in Kansas.
Case sees the speech for what it was – a signal to Obama’s “progressive†base that the president will fight next year’s election from the left, on a program of government jobs schemes, guided investment, increased union power , and amped up state direction of the economy in the interests of reducing “inequalityâ€.
Comrade Case writes in today’s People’s World;
President Obama’s speech last week in Osawatomie, Kansas was the true “pivot†towards jobs and away from the austerity debates of last summer for which workers, occupy protesters and tens of millions more have been waiting. As (Communist Party vice chair) Jarvis Tyner commented, “we can criticize Obama and when it is done in a united front way he has shown that he can be moved.†We can also note that no amount of unemployment, suffering, wage-cuts, or desperation appears to move any Republican candidate for president in the slightest degree.
The Osawatomie speech was an important and revealing look at Obama’s domestic policy agenda as the election year begins in earnest. He clearly judges the possibility of serious compromise with the Republicans before the voters cast a judgment next November as minimal. He took a big step toward a serious jobs program while embracing the principle of bipartisanship by invoking the progressive side of Republican Teddy Roosevelt’s campaign against the rising inequality of his time. Obama anchored all his arguments with an assault on the growing inequality in the US today, clearly showing the impact of the Occupy movement, and the labor-led victories in Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Arizona and Maine.
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Pretty much says it all right there. If even the communists think Obama's a communist, well....
