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He campaigned for Senate with a pro-NAFTA position.
He opposes single payer healthcare and a living wage.
He voted in support of the Patriot Act
and he’ll keep police state laws firmly in place.
He’ll do nothing to protect immigrants’ rights
and continue to undermine labor.
He’ll move toward privatizing education,
and keep Social Security firmly on the table.
He voted to make it harder to file class action suits
and for corporate-friendly tort “reform”,
against a 30% cap on credit card rates
and amnesty for illegally spying telecoms.
He supports the invasive real ID and the death penalty
and he’ll add to the list of crimes that are death-eligible.
He voted for a nuclear energy bill which included cluster bombs,
federal funding for Yucca Mountain and the production of ethanol.
He supported the bailout while rejecting moratoriums
on foreclosures and a freeze on mortgage rates
and wrote Clinton and conservatives were right to destroy welfare,
creating “workfare” to leave capitalism’s victims to their fate.
He led a 25-year reversal of an offshore drilling ban,
and wants to expand nuclear power and “clean” coal plants.
He’s for corporate subsidies, and enlarging the Pentagon’s budget
for U.S. military operations’ expansion.
A worsening financial crisis and a metastasizing budget
will preclude an expansion of social spending,
since Democrats intend to make the Working Class pay
for the breakdown of American capitalism
and the bailout of the financial aristocracy
as Obama makes the “difficult choices”
and industries line up for government handouts
while the people of America get screwed royally.
He embraces the politics of racist icons like Reagan
while claiming racism is not endemic in America
and that Blacks are 90% of the way to equality,
implying we’ll soon hear little about affirmative action.
While he presents a different face to the world,
reviving illusions of our democratic pretensions,
he’ll mute opposition to the plans of the financial elite
by providing the mirage of a hopeful alternative.
As his transition team moves further and further to the right,
we’ll see the true meaning of “change you can believe in”,
as Obama makes social and economic justice roadkill
while he drives America on in stagnant continuity.
This hypocrisy will be explained as pragmatism,
Obama’s “necessary concession to reality”,
but in reality this pragmatism is a euphemism
for the same old neo-conservative ideology.
His Clinton Era leftovers, now corporate lobbyists,
are rushing back to DC in a sickening flash forward
of the Class War’s continuation in America
and the metastasizing of wars of imperial conquest.
As representatives to the G-20 summit he sent
Jim Leach, of the infamous Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
and Madeleine “We think the price was worth it” Albright.
And we’re supposed to cut Obama some slack?!!
He’s not the solution, but the face of the problem,
the perfect symbol of change made on Wall Street
and the Ultra Wealthy’s savviest members
in response to the crisis of their imperial policies.
Corporate capitalists have a knack for selling
seeming rebellion against themselves,
marketing products which allow people to pretend
to transcend the conformity of which these products are an emblem,
and besides, their tired ideology needed to be repackaged,
rebranded and sold as “change you can believe in”.
