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Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, and other activists talk to Lloyd Grove about disappointment in the African-American community with the president's first year.

Danny Glover heaved a sigh when I asked him recently what he thought of President Obama's performance so far.

It wasn't a sigh of relief.

"I think the Obama administration has followed the same playbook, to a large extent, almost verbatim, as the Bush administration. I don't see anything different," the activist movie actor said of Obama's policies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. "On the domestic side, look here: What's so clear is that this country from the outset is projecting the interests of wealth and property. Look at the bailout of Wall Street. Why not the bailout of Main Street?"

Continued at The Daily Beast

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