OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Meet the new boss--Same as the old boss.

The article then gets to the core of the matter stating "On a really good day we'll get half-measures, poorly communicated, to deal with full problems. But on most days, alas, we just get an undiluted shot of Goldman Sachs, Big Pharma and every other corporate plutocrat working directly out of the Oval Office. Why is Obama such a do-nothing dud? Does he feel for financially strapped Americans to the point of doing his own permanent staycation in the White House, the better to model his empathy for them? Does his personality simply prevent him from doing anything that some person or another might object to? Is he yet another tool of Wall Street, whose only difference from George Bush is
stylistic?"

The article makes the assumption that the trend in GOP politics will degenerate as it states "And my guess is that the next go-round of Reaganism/Bushism will make the last one look like a friendly game of gin rummy by comparison. They will almost certainly have to pull the plug on any remaining vestige of democracy at that point, since their policies will be utterly useless in addressing people's mounting concerns and their growing impatience."

And there is our population. We have a bunch of lost souls praying for a better tomorrow.

The article "'2012' - Religious Right Leader Excoriates His Own for Aiding and Abetting 'End Of Times' Hype and Hysteria" at

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/25051/

describes our lust for tales that portend of a better tomorrow for those who follow God's way stating "Gary DeMar, president of an organization called American Vision ("Exercising Servanthood Dominion"), recently wrote a column titled "Avoiding Doomsday Hype and Hysteria.""
In the piece, DeMar stews, cine-plexians have more doomsday films to look forward to including "The Road," a tale about a father and son attempting to survive in post apocalyptic America, based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name, which opens next week."

Some of these lost souls also have a homicidal bent.

The article "Former evangelist: Religious right is "trawling for assassins'" at
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/evangelist-religious-trawling-assassins/

states "MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is concerned that President Obama's trip abroad has served to bring out "the unhinged among the president's critics."

Not only have the Wall Street Journal and the hosts of Fox News been issuing their usual dark mutterings, but a new slogan has began appearing on bumper stickers, tshirts, and even teddy bears: "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8." That psalm reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

Maddow seemed mainly amused by the teddy bears, but when she turned for comment to former right-wing evangelical leader Frank Schaeffer, he emphasized that in a religious context "it means something more threatening." "The situation that I find genuinely frightening right now," Schaeffer explained, "is that you have a ramping up of biblical language ... and what it's coalescing into is branding Obama ... as 'not us.' ... Now he joins the ranks of the unjust kings of ancient Israel ... who should be slaughtered, if not by God then by just men."

"Really, this is trawling for assassins," continued Schaeffer, "and this is serious business. It's un-American, it's unpatriotic, and it goes to show that the religious right, the Republican far right, have coalesced into a group that truly want American revolution. ... They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. ... This bumper sticker simply says to them, 'It's open season.'"

Appearing increasingly agitated, Schaeffer went on to say, "This is the American version of the Taliban. The Taliban quotes the Koran, and Al Qaeda quotes certain verses in the Koran, in or out of context, calling for jihad and bloody war and the curse of Allah on infidels. This is the Old Testament biblical equivalent of calling for holy war. ... And what surprises me is that responsible -- if you can put it that way -- Republican leadership, and the editors at some of these Christian magazines .... do not stand up in holy horror and denounce this."

Plenty of progressives are upset with Obama. If he said that he wasn't going to change anything who would have voted for him?

In domestic policy he has had two major policies to work on. Obama's bailout provided too much money for the fats in Wall Street. Most of the money specified for creating jobs has not even been spent yet--consequentially jobs were never planned on being created rapidly. Does he want to make a health care system in which those who need the most help receive assistance, or does he want something that is watered down?

The article "Profile : The Conciliator" at

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