Obama's been dodging and weaving and caving, kicking the can down the road, and delivering on what Bush and Norquist and conservatives were up to: Ending the New Deal and Great Society programs the only way you can when the People overwhelmingly want them and won't agree to the frontal assaults on them for 30 years -- By bankrupting the nation.
Obama's just the next chapter in the corporatization of the US government. Obama's in the Oval Office to mellow-talk us into accepting that which we'd never stand still for if we had contentious, fire-in-the-belly real Democratic leaders actually fighting on our behalf. Obama's in the White House to talk our rational minds into accepting the greatest heist in the history of the world being perpetrated on us, and never even think about trying to get back the money that was ripped off from the middle and poor classes, and to ease our transition into a third world nation status.
Obama is the grifter leading off the second half of the con game, which is to squeeze the rest of the dimes from the poor and middle classes. It began in earnest (and on steroids) with part 2 of Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 (high-priced junk health insurance that has no cost controls), and has continued with Obama's healthcare legislation (massive giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries), more NAFTA-like treaties (outsourcing more Americans' jobs) and Obama's Deficit Commission and then his 'Super Congress' and now a replay of last year's extension of Bush's tax cuts for the rich.
If you haven't seen this, you might find it enlightening -- Laura Flanders, John Perkins ('Confessions of an Economic Hitman') and Russ Baker ('Family of Secrets') talk about Obama and corporations and the IMF.
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