Anybody who is placated by what David Plouffe is saying and believes that Obama is now on the side of the angels is a fooI. This is just a tactical move to deflect the attention of key voting blocs within both parties that Obama has determined he needs for 2012.
When politicians say that "Social Security is the third rail of politics", they mean it with a hostility that should be reserved for their Corporate Masters. You don't see politicians putting campaign finance and election reform on their agenda from year to year as you do their continuing assaults on social safety net programs for the People.
To politicians, We The People are the problem. If only they didn't have to deal with making us happy to get our votes that keep them employed. If only they didn't have to serve us, they'd be able to give and give and give to Big Business (privatize national resources that belong collectively to us, the People) and deregulate so that corporations wouldn't be constrained by anything, become profit-making machines, unobstructed by piddling voter concerns, such as health, safety, environment, etc. And for this, politicians would be amply rewarded, and perhaps would eventually be able to join the ruling class.
You can choose to think of Obama and his intentions in whatever way makes you happy. What you can't do is explain how any of what Obama's done these past two years has been in the People's and not the Corporations' interests.
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