How damaging is the apparent downfall of President Obama’s signature health reform? This editorial from Mexico’s La Jornada calls it a ‘hope killer’ – not only for U.S. liberals and progressives that put him in the White House, but for people around the world who see an administration in full retreat on social issues, and an enabler of ‘Washington’s warmongering and diplomatic immorality in the world.’
The La Jornada editorial says in part:
In its almost five years in office, the Obama presidency has moderated almost every progressive aspect of his agenda for social transformation; he has continued Washington’s warmongering and diplomatic immorality in the world; he has avoided the proper regulation of the U.S. financial and fiscal system; and he has even renounced aspects of his agenda that generated the most consensus, such as the closing of Guantánamo.
The announcement President Obama made yesterday puts him into a state of virtual political death: an administration devoid of social substance, shown to be unable to counterbalance the formal and informal powers that oppose the social and political transformation of the United States, the president doesn’t seem to have the strength or the will to drive the rest of his original proposals over the next three years, such as comprehensive immigration reform. His position seems reduced to playing a merely administrative or management role representing the interests that really pull the strings of power in his country.
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