Barack
Obama’s mission has always been to destroy the left wing of the
Democrats in order to consummate a grand bargain – a melding – of the
corporatists in both major parties. He entered national politics as a
newly-minted member of the Democratic Leadership Council,
which dispensed corporate campaign money to business-friendly
candidates and incumbents. Ten years later, President Obama has
succeeded beyond our worst fears. Black politics is in utter ruin, and
the collapse of the Democratic Party’s left wing is all but complete.
Austerity is the order of the day, and no one is more responsible for
that catastrophe than Obama, who has waged war on so-called entitlement
programs since the polls closed in 2008.
-- Glen Ford, "The Sequestration Tango: Obama and GOP Dance Through the Graveyard of the New Deal" (Black Agenda Report).