Running to the Right: Barack Obama and the DLC Strategy (Black Agenda Report)

[NashVegas]

The fragility of Barack Obama's DLC-inspired electoral strategy is now exposed for all to see. Obama has chosen to “reach out” to white and Republican voters while challenging none of their assumptions about America, racism or empire, at the same time, counting on on a deaf and blind black nationalism to shield him from accountability to African Americans. Republicans (and Hillary Clinton) know all they need do to counter him is prove to whites that he is not as conservative as he seems. Obama will thus be forced scramble relentlessly rightward from here on, disowning, denouncing and dishonoring any and all stirrings of black or grassroots militancy to keep white support without telling white America anything it doesn't want to know.

Back in 2003, when Obama was a candidate for the US Senate in the Illinois Democratic primary this reporter and Glen Ford challenged him on the fact of his affiliation with the Democratic Leadership Council. The right-wing, corporate-funded Trojan Horse inside the Democratic party had fervently embraced his political career, naming him one of its “100 to Watch” for 2003.

DLC endorsement is the gold standard of political reliability for Wall Street, Big Energy, Big Pharma, insurance, the airlines and more. Though candidates normally undergo extensive questioning and interviews before DLC endorsement, Obama insisted the blessing of these corporate special interests had been bestowed on him without these formalities and without his advance knowledge, and formally disassociated himself from the DLC. But like Hillary Clinton, and every front running Democrat since Michale Dukakis in 1988, Barack Obama's campaign has adopted the classic right wing DLC strategy.

In the DLC playbook, the road to winning elections is appealing to Republican-leaning white voters – demographic groups which pollsters and consultants in previous elections called “suburban soccer moms”, NASCAR dads,” and before that “Reagan Democrats.” Candidates do this by decrying excessive partisanship, embracing “free trade” and “conservative” values, and displays of public piety, Though Obama has no formal ties with the DLC he has assiduously followed this prescription. Till a month ago Obama led every candidate among white men, an unprecedented achievement for a Democrat.

But after less than a month of sustained and often racist attacks from the likes of Fox News, CNN, Republican pundits and Hillary Clinton supporters, Obama's support among Republican-leaning white voters has sharply eroded. Dr. Adolph Reed, a black professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania explained why an April 30 Democracy Now interview,

“...Obama opened himself to this by leaning to—on the premise that he can appeal to Republicans and to conservatives and by parading his personal faith around. And frankly—this is, I guess, the crux of my argument in The Progressive column—that this is precisely the tactic that has been the undoing of every Democratic candidate since Dukakis, and I would frankly even include (Bill) Clinton in that, were it not for the fact that Ross Perot siphoned votes away from the Republicans each time. I mean, this is what happened with Gore in 2000, it’s what happened with Kerry in 2004. You present yourself as electable because you can appeal to conservative voters, and then the Republicans attack you for not being a true conservative and can characterize you as someone who’s trying to put something over on the American people.

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[anonymous171]

1. lol not

[FrenchieCat]

2. This sounds like Hillary's strategy.........

In the DLC playbook, the road to winning elections is appealing to Republican-leaning white voters – demographic groups which pollsters and consultants in previous elections called “suburban soccer moms”, NASCAR dads,” and before that “Reagan Democrats.”

Sprinkled in with some racist Nixonian southern strategy!

[nichomachus]

3. The Black Agenda Report is rabidly anti-Obama

about as credible as Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly.

[NashVegas]

5. So?

Maybe they know something you don't.

[PM7nj]

8. They sound like Rev Wright...

I know how much you love him.

[NashVegas]

9. Rev. Wright

Says a lot of things that make a lot of sense to people who study US history and don't want to repeat past tragedies. A few things he says I'm not down with, and I'm definitely not into the showbiz aspect at the lecturn ...

[nichomachus]

11. And

maybe they don't, but since there's no hint of objectivity in anything they write about Obama, I will hold everything they say suspect. Just as Ann Coulter may say something true about liberals, but I'm just going to assume whatever she says or writes is just bowel gas.

[DJ13]

4. What an idiotic analysis

When any analysis starts out with a lie-
"The fragility of Barack Obama's DLC-inspired electoral strategy is now exposed for all to see."

......the resulting analysis itself is a lie.


Obama is using Dean's (DNC) 50 state strategy, NOT the DLC's losing strategy of concentrating on key states, also known as the "50 + 1 strategy" that lost Kerry the Presidency in 2004.

[NashVegas]

7. You Think

That's all there is to DLC? How many states you run a campaign in? That's pretty amusing.

[PM7nj]

6. Is Obama black enough? nt

[Hutzpa]

10. !

the DLC has FAILED.... get it

FAILED

Obama was never with the DLC so remember that next
you do a hit piece.


:wow: