If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateMasters of the universe. He'll hand the baton off to Republicans for the fleecing to continue. He will not have reversed the course of the previous administration, just as the administration previous to Bush's (Clinton) didn't reverse the course of HWBush's 'Global Economy'/New World Order and the Reagan-Bush 'trickle down'/Saudi oil empire before that.
Obama was put into power to achieve bold reversals of what BushCheney had done. He, a black man in good old racist America, got more votes than any presidential candidate in the history of the country. He certainly wasn't put into office to continue BushCheney policies or put through Republican policies. Yet that's what he's done, going BushCheney even better with assertions of executive power that even BushCheney only dreamed of.
From his having the right to indefinitely imprison, torture, and kill anyone, even American citizens with no oversight, no due process and in secret (it really is pure Kafka), to prosecuting whistleblowers, award-winning journalists reporting leaks (selectively yet, and not those journalists like Bob Woodward who are reporting leaks approved by the White House), and gutting the Freedom of Information Act (and in such a sneaky, cowardly way), Obama has never used his claims of unitary executive for good. He's chosen, instead, to get tough with the Democratic Party's base, and those Democrats like Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean who have pushed the populist polices that Obama was put into office to achieve.
Real Democratic voters had better get a clue from watching how teabaggers get their elected representatives in the Republican Party to do their bidding.
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