Is Barack Obama a Keynesian or Freidman Follower?

[Bullet1987]

This is a very important question to ask and even more important to know. Since buying Naomi Klein's book 'The Shock Doctrine,' it has opened my eyes to the power of economic thought. The counterrevolution of the Chicago School in Latin America is at the center of many of the problems we face today. It's a revolution that originated among the right-wing (probably why the Republican Party is so hardcore corporatist today) and bled over into the Democratic Party in the 90s. It's a strange coincidence that Barack Obama came up through Chicago politics. What are the economic beliefs of Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers? These are questions that democratic voters need to begin to demand from politicians running for office. Even at the local level. I'm planning on buying Robert Reich's book 'Supercapitalism' too. I'm going to get more well-versed on this topic. Let's bring Keynes back!

[dana_b]

1. I think you already know the answer n/t

[ashling]

2. I knew he was born in Keynsia

I don't believe he is a follower of Friedman, but I don't see him following Keynes.

[jenmito]

3. He's NOT a Kenyan.

:D

[Jennicut]

7. That is one thing we can establish here, right?

[jenmito]

9. There's probably 1% here who are birthers.

[scheming daemons]

4. He passed an $800 billion stimulus bill... doesn't get more Keynesian than that

The rest of your post is just the same kind of drivel I hear from RW radio.

[Bullet1987]

5. What part of my "drivel" is inaccurate dare I ask?

[Mojambo]

8. That stimulus package was hardly Keynesian. n/t

[Oregone]

14. And what percent of that bill could be classified as Keynesian stimulus?

Please don't even say 100%. That would be mind-numbingly Orwellian

[Thrill]

6. He's Obama. The guy is Pragmatic. You should be use to it by now

He's neither. He's likely to try to blend two things together.

[Change Happens]

17. +1

[Hello_Kitty]

10. I'd say he started as a Keynesian but is being increasingly influenced by the Friedmanites.

I very seriously doubt his experience as a community organizer in Chicago honed neo-conservative Supply Side tendencies in him. They certainly weren't evident in his speeches and writings as recently as two years ago. He has always had a maddening proclivity to embrace bipartisanship, often to the exclusion of facts on the ground.

[Bullet1987]

11. I don't mean when he was a community organizer out of college

I mean when he entered into politics.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. He is from the Chameleon School.

He changes colors to satisfy both the fat cats and their prey (us). Guess who winds up getting eaten alive?

[salguine]

13. I think he follows Niccolo Machiavelli.

[OHdem10]

15. They are pretty much following Keynesian Economics for the

Crisis.

There are those who believed Stimulus should have been larger,
but it is still Keynesian.

[Change Happens]

16. Right down the Middle: Chicago for sure, but never overlooks the South side!!!

So to speak...I like that in him!