Progressive Harvard Law Prof: Obama “must be defeated”

WILLIAM A. JACOBSON JUN 17, 2012 2:10 PM

The most shocking thing to me about this video is not that Harvard Law Professor Robert Mangabeira Unger looks so old.

When I was in law school he was a baby-faced rising star on the faculty (his photo from that time period still is on his faculty bio).  It always amazes me when others grow old while I have stayed pretty much the, um, same.

Back then, the word among the students was that no one could figure out what he was saying.  (See Instapundit for more about Unger.)

No, the most shocking thing is that he makes a point which even I can understand, via HuffPo (h/t HotAir):

“President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. “He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.”Unger said that Obama must lose the election in order for “the voice of democratic prophecy to speak once again in American life.”He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, “there will be a cost … in judicial and administrative appointments.” But he said that “the risk of military adventurism” would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that “the Democratic Party proposes no new direction.”

Jump ahead to 6:00 for the really good stuff.

• “His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.”
• “He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.”
• “He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.”
• “He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice.”
• “He has reduced justice to charity.”
• “He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.”
• “He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle.”

He’s right, of course. Why any true liberal/progressive puts faith in Obama always has been beyond me.

Obama is a walking disaster for progressives, the embodiment of a cult of racial and class rhetoric over progress, which puts Obama at the center of the universe.

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