Obama Set To Launch Re-Election Bid, AP Sources Say

This is such Kabuki theater.

Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. The annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

When it comes to achieving corporatio­ns' business, Democrats are remarkably competent.  Obama is even more competent in that he's been able to give himself some distance from policies that displease Democratic voters ('plausibl­e deniabilit­y') in a variety of ways that keep his favorable ratings high.  Whether it's renaming Republican legislatio­n ("Romney healthcare­" to "Affordabl­e Health Insurance Act") to getting other legislator­s like Joe Lieberman to actually do the heavy lifting legislativ­ely, Obama's 'most ardent admirers' lay themselves on the line for him out of their ig-no-ranc­e of what he's actually doing.  

The latest (and IMHO really cowardly) is Obama's leaving the country as he launches a war against Libya without authorizat­ion by the Congress of the United States.  It's just what he did after getting Lieberman to gut the FOIA and then get Gates to destroy the photograph­s of t0rture and abuse at Abu Ghraib (then he went to China).

Getting Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' to understand that he and DLC-contro­lled Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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