In Marin, some see Obama speech as political switcheroo -- Marin IJ

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 08:00

By Richard Halstead
Marin IJ
January 27, 2010

Marin residents who listened to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Wednesday included a progressive Democrat, who disliked many of the president’s policy prescriptions, and two Republicans, who admire many of those same policies but doubt Obama’s sincerity.

“The speech was nice but reflected deteriorating policies,” said Norman Solomon, a West Marin author and progressive activist.

Referring to Obama’s proposal for a three-year budget freeze, Solomon said, “Now he’s not only a military hawk in Afghanistan, he’s also become a deficit hawk with the domestic budget. This is exactly the wrong direction in terms of job creation. FDR would be rolling over in his grave.”

And that was not all that rankled Solomon.

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