
If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateM
asters of the universe. He'll hand the baton off to Republican
s for the fleecing to continue and go on to reap the benefits from his treacherou
s betrayal of the People, i.e., the same sort of corporate payoffs that presidents since Gerald Ford have enjoyed.
Over the course of US history, corporatio
ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel
y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati
ons) is good for America (the People)".
Democrats (controlle
d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican
s are corporate tools. Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi
ons) of a parent, Republican
s and DLC-contro
lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen
t, BigCorpora
tions. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of thePeople.
If you must continue to delude yourself into thinking Obama's a good guy who never would have started those wars, and who has only the best of intentions but got a bad deal (I don't share that opinion anymore), then think of all this as a business plan where the CorporateM
asters of the Universe have charted out their plans years in advance (governmen
ts do them, too) and select the politician
/personali
ty best able to achieve those plans in 4 year increments
. If you want to l!e the country into war for oil and war-profit
eering, then GeorgeWBus
h is your man to front it (with DickCheney
, the former Secretary of Defense who initiated the privatizin
g of the military a decade earlier, actually running the operation from the shadows).
And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE and CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in and trust. BarackObam
a.
The truth is that Obama is no better than BushCheney
. Not better, not worse, but the same. His 'most ardent admirers' just like the packaging better. I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for some of them; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand they trust believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).
Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromi
sing change to our campaign financing system, until corporatio
ns are no longer 'persons' and are prohibited from participat
ing in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless. But that is
NOT going to happen under Obama or the DLC-contro
lled Democratic Party as we'd hoped when we put them in power in 2008; it's not even on their 'To Do' list.
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