Obama and Miliband

I apologise for the advertisement, but there is a piece in the Observer that is well worth reading. Michael Cohen describes how Obama has tired of offering the hand of friendship, only for the Republicans to accuse him of being a socialist Mau Mau on a mission to destroy America. He will abandon bipartisanship and fight the 2012 presidential election as Harry Truman and FDR would have done: by painting the Republicans as the yapping lapdogs of the Wall Street plutocracy. Cohen reports that in a recent speech:

‘Obama blasted Republicans for possessing a world view where “corporations write their own rules, and we dismantle environmental regulations and we dismantle labour regulations, and we cut taxes for folks who don’t need it and weren’t even asking for it, and then we say to you, you’re on your own – good luck, because you’re not going to get any help”. According to Obama, such an approach would “fundamentally cripple America”.