NOAM CHOMSKY talks to David Goessmann/Fabian Scheidler
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Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 while at the same time sending more troops to the Afghanistan War. What has become of the promise of “change”?
I am one of the few who are not disillusioned, because I had no expectations. I had written about Obama’s positions and prospects even before his election campaign. I just looked at his Web site, and it was pretty clear to me that he is a moderate Democrat in the style of Bill Clinton. Sure, there was much rhetoric about hope and change. But it functioned as a blank screen. You could project on it what you wanted. People were desperate to end the Bush era, looking for hope. But there was no basis for any expectations once you analyzed the substance of what Obama said in detail.
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