Everyone else has weighed in. Now it’s Billy Wharton’s turn.
Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, sees to agree with Linda McMahon’s assessment that the speech was a public relations ploy.
“Sagging under the weight of depressed dreams of hope and change, he desperately needed to appear as though he was doing something to address the growing needs of the American people. Emphasis on the ‘appearances,’ since Obama’s speech delivered more of the same from his first year in office – high rhetoric with little substance,” Wharton writes on the party’s website.
He concludes: “The time for slick public relations campaigns has ended – the time for building our grassroots movements is more urgent than ever. The Socialist Party USA stands ready to join in such a political revitalization.”
h/t Todd Vachon