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Has Obama failed to advance leftism in America?By Julio Severo Roberto Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said that “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election” because “he has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States,” according to a Daily Mail report. Roberto Unger: Obama “failed” in the progressive cause He also said that, “despite their fierce rivalry, the Democrats’ agenda is little different to that of the Republicans”. In this point, he just confirmed my suspicion: the leftist agenda was advanced in different degrees, by Democrats and...

A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and publicly urged voters not to re-elect him. Roberto Unger posted a video on YouTube detailing the reasons why he believes the President does not deserve a second term in the White House. Mr Unger, a prominent Brazilian politician and an adviser to Obama in 2008, said: 'President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.'

In the Beyond series, thinker and politician Roberto Mangabeira Unger imagines beyond the current paradigms. Find out more about Unger at his Harvard Law School faculty page (http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/unger/) and at his Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Mangabeira_Unger). "President Obama must be defeated in the coming election," Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted on May 22. "He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."