The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality
The truth is that Obama was never nearly as free of dependence on big money donors as the reporting suggested, nor was his movement as bottom-up or people-centric as his marketing implied. And this is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn't happen, in the first year of Obama's administration. The people who voted for him weren't organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests--banks, energy ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Peter Daou, Ellen Miller, Jay Rosen, Howard Rheingold, Memeorandum
