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Obama, he argues, is a "work in progress," at times an embodiment of the most expansive progressive hopes, at other points a moderate centrist moving cautiously and politically through the thickets of his time.
With so many progressive hopes hanging in the balance, the potential certainly exists for disappointment.
Bruised by the Democrats' electoral defeat, President Barack Obama, who once embodied progressive hopes more than any Democrat since Cuomo's day, is cutting community-development block grants and corporate taxes.
Polly Toynbee wants Gordon Brown to reshuffle himself out of office, championing David Miliband as the saviour of progressive hopes as fervently as she backed Brown a year ago.
On key policy issues -- financial reform, the bank bailout, health-care, Afghanistan, and government secrecy -- progressive hopes and proposals have often been dashed or painfully slowed.
Yet progressive hopes are faltering, not only because of Obama's compromises and mistakes and Republican intransigence, but also because far too many of his supporters have come to believe they can act exclusively through these online technologies, to the exclusion of face-to-face politics.
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This is truly a tragedy: the great progressive hope (well, I did warn people) is falling all over himself to endorse right-wing economic fallacies.
Urban pools present an enormous challenge to liberal sensibility, as they are at once great repositories of progressive hope and perpetuators of an arguably necessary militarism.
Once the great progressive hope of the Democratic Party, he ultimately failed to defy Enoch Powell's famous dictum that "all political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure".
That progressive hope for the future conveyed by Gene Roddenberry has been at the core of what Silicon Valley has always strived to accomplish.
Perriello is back, campaigning for the gubernatorial post as an unapologetic progressive, hoping to win both his party's nomination and the November election by positioning himself as an ultra-liberal antidote to President Donald Trump.
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