Noam Ssheiber, editor of the New Republic asks this question about Obama...
Still, given the influence of wealthy investors on the Clinton and Obama campaigns in particular, Kuttner is right to be worried. In May, the legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II held a 300-person fund-raiser for Barack Obama at his Greenwich, Conn., mansion. If a future Obama administration were to consider, say, reining in derivatives, could the president resist pressure from the likes of Jones? It’s possible. But, like Kuttner, I’m skeptical.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/Scheiber-t.html?ref=booksIt's worth reading the review of THE SQUANDERING OF AMERICA How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity By Robert Kuttner to see how the Democratic Party seems to have established a liberalism that has no heart for the truly needy and is willing to accept the fiscal lean toward the rich just to grab a bit of the power in American politics...
Still, we must realize that Kuttner has long been a critic of the Clinton shift of the Democratic party to one more centrist in ideology if not in composition...
It begs the question as we hurl toward the caucus and the primaries is there any chance of getting a fair shake from the party of Roosevelt and Johnson...
Myself, I am cautiously optimistic now that the war has left center stage and domestic priorities seem to be taking more of the talking points of the candidates...
Don't get me wrong, I want the war to come to a swift end but we all must realize that as long as the war dominated the national agenda, there was no room at all for sustain talk of the issues that traditionally bind the various coalitions of the party together...