profoundly destructive ramifications for the USA over the next decade. Likewise, the meme this post taps into -- i.e. that Australia's Opposition is somehow following or flirting with a "rabid right" agenda imported from the delusional end of the Republican tribe -- is a fabricated smear by association aimed at undermining the legitimate role of the Coalition: to OPPOSE. There is some slippage here, Fyodor. You have allowed yourself to conflate my assessment of Obama so as to infer that centrist is somehow radical. I, too dispute that there is anything "radical" about Obama, the point I was making was that his re-election represents a belated public awakening and repudiation of the chimera of neo con and neoliberal exceptionalist and appropriationist ideology and non-policies.. There is some slippage here, Fyodor. You have allowed yourself to conflate my assessment of Obama so as to infer that centrist is somehow radical. I, too dispute that there is anything "radical" about Obama, the point I was making was that his re-election represents a belated public awakening and repudiation of the chimera of neo con and neoliberal exceptionalist and appropriationist ideology and non-policies. Slippage? Nope. There was no conflation on my part and nor did I infer that "centrist is somehow radical". As I stated that BOTH candidates had a "do nothing" agenda, I don't see why you inferred that I implied otherwise. While you restate one of your claims here -- i.e. the unsubstantiated claims on "awakening" on and "repudiation" of chimeraneoblahblah following