No time for a minimalist by David Sirota

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http://www.creators.com/opinion/david-sirota/no-time-for-a-minimalist.html


...The numbers are tragic but predictable. Until this week, Obama largely avoided the contrasting FDR-style populism the nation wants and the moment demands.

For example, instead of endorsing forceful re-regulation months ago when the financial meltdown commenced, Obama responded with a vague white paper that not only offered few hard-hitting prescriptions, but denigrated key Depression-era regulations.

Likewise, despite slipping in the industrial heartland, Obama has muted his criticism of NAFTA. Indeed, one Obama adviser last week called trade only "an issue of symbolic importance." Another said that far from opposing a controversial NAFTA expansion into Colombia as promised, the candidate now wants "to make it possible."

The self-defeating behavior reflects both money and orthodoxy.

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Obama had better dump Rubin. That dog won't hunt.

Enough with the DLC bullshit.