Three Years After "Yes We Can"
Against The Current vol. 155
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/3424
Date Written: 2011-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX14085
No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
