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blackagendareport.com - ‘Progressives for Obama’ Fool Themselves

blackagendareport.com - ‘Progressives for Obama’ Fool Themselves: "Barack Obama's rush to disavow the 'tag' of the 'Left' should surprise no one. The only people who pretend that Obama is a 'progressive' are a few Leftists, and Right-wingers that hate Leftists. 'But the most important reason that ‘Progressives for Obama' should have never existed is its utter lack of content.' Progressives have been playing 'make-believe' with the Obama campaign, dubbing it both 'progressive' and a 'movement' when there is no movement or progressive content to the campaign. Some progressives are guilty of providing 'a veneer of progressive credibility to a candidate who was nothing of the kind."

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