Reply #87: Gore, Obama, and Dean are marginally less neoliberal than the DLC [View All]

And I'm being generous in that assessment. Gore is out of elected office and is now able to speak his mind and so naturally people like what he has to say a lot better. He still thinks NAFTA was a good idea and hasn't changed his position on trade.

Dean used anti-NAFTA rhetoric in his campaign just like Clinton and Obama are doing now. And on policy they're all about the same. When Obama gets into office he's going to find that there's not a whole lot he can do to make the countries we trade with clean up their human rights or bring back outsourced jobs.

And Kerry and Edwards were DLC members back in 2004 so I really don't think the DLC undercut them. Hillary may have secretly not wanted them to win so she could run in '08, but that's mere speculation and impossible to prove.

The bottom line is that Obama and Dean are not fundamentally different from Clinton on economic issues. What we have is battle over egos, not a battle over principles.