I've written here before that unless and until there is drastic and uncompromising change to our campaign financing system, until corporations are no longer 'persons' and prohibited from participating in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless. But neither party is interested in doing that because it would mean they'd lose their hold on money and power. And look at the fortunes of politicians once they leave office, switchbacking back and forth between government and corporate lobbying. Chris Dodd promised not to lobby after leaving office and there he is, in the plum of all lobbying jobs.
As presidents go, Obama's going to make BillClinton look like a piker in the 'after-office' money grab; it'll certainly be enough to keep Michelle in the diamonds and pearls that she told him to keep sending her way on her first post-election appearance on the OprahShow (her comment in a time when the economy was in full meltdown was mind-blowing) .
Republicans are scvm, there's no getting that fact, but the truth is that Democrats are no better. Obama, like any other professional DLC-vetted Democratic politician, is no better than BushCheney. Obama and Democrats may even be worse, because unlike BushCheney who made and make no bones or excuses for what they've done and who they are, Obama and Democrats ran on knowing better. Obama is continuing just about all of Bush's policies, and even going Bush-Cheney one better (Obama is asserting that a president can k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight whatsoever, and indefinite preventive detention? !?! Pure Kafka). [Blue highlighted text are clickable hyperlinks.]
So where does that leave us?
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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