The Obama Presidency
During the 2008 elections, Dix argued against those who saw Obama’s candidacy as a vehicle to advance a progressive agenda. Dix popularized the analysis of Bob Avakian—that Obama was a “trump card” being played by those who rule the US in order to bring disaffected forces back into support for the system. Dix wrote that "promoting Obama's campaign can only lead people back into the killing embrace of this rotten system."
Further amplifying on this position, beginning in 2009, Dix engaged in a series of public dialogues with Princeton professor and public intellectual, Cornel West, under the theme of “In the Age of Obama - Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs; Mis-Education - WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?"
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Famous quotes containing the word presidency:
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)