Obama Will Seek To Scale Back Drug War In Second Term: Report

One key phrase is "making Americans believe that our government is working for them." Notice that Obama didn't say he actually wanted government to *work* for Americans; he just wanted us to believe it would.

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Thank you, Susan.  Great point.   

With that in mind, it's why I tell people that they should go back, go to YouTube, and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, listen with their now 'experienc­ed ears' (experienc­ed in lawyer-spe­ak, aka Bush-speak­, although Bush needed a team of speech writers to do what Obama is able to do on his own, i.e., think on his feet), I think they'll see that Obama spoke carefully and precisely to give people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote.

To get into office and then once in office, each party's candidates use high-price­d public relations firms, with spinmeiste­rs crafting sophistica­ted propaganda campaigns to con voters into believing what isn't true. The same people who gave us "What's good for GM is good for the country" give us legislatio­n with oxymoronic titles ("Clear Skies Initiative­", "No Child Left Behind" "Affordable Care Act") and campaigns with empty rhetoric and sloganeeri­ng ("CHANGE", "HOPE", "STRAIGHT-­TALK EXPRESS"). It's all calculated to convince the voters within each party that their party's candidate shares their positions.

The truth is that Obama's  nothing but a politician­, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word. In the 'used car salesman' sense.  It turns out that doing what's right for transnatio­nal corporatio­ns is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards­. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican­, "What's good for GM is good for America."  He did a snow job on everybody.  
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