Alvin Flummux wrote:I once read on GR that he was the only one of the Democratic nominee contestants who could bring about real change in US politics. Now for some reason I'm curious, what change would that be anyway?
From what I saw of him before in the 2004 & 2008 debates and what he's done previously (aside from his mistress), he was a guy who was very passionate about addressing the inequalities in income in American society and did a lot of work for the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina on the same issue. His image was that of someone who was wanted to change the political system and address one of the sacred cows of American politics that you can't criticise the rich and ask them to spend more on taxes etc to alleviate the suffering at the other end of the spectrum.
He was someone who had a lot of blue-collar working-class support because of this message that he put out - it's a shame really that he's gone the way he has done, as he always did come across as very informed and sincere in his actions to address the differences that the other candidates wouldn't really touch apart from with token gestures. It's anyone's guess what really would have happened if he had got in office as these things often change from when in opposition to running in Government but even in his campaigning in this candicacy in 2008 he still stuck to the same sort of themes - possibiy one reason why he didn't get through in the first place.
