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Obama's Emerging Legacy: Wars, Bankers and For-Profit Healthcare

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Baker is too kind. He persists in assigning Obama the most progressive of motives, when the content and consistency of his actions point to a profoundly corporate frame of mind and outlook. The president "avoids conflict" with the banks because he has no basic problem with them occupying the commanding heights of power in U.S. society.

"Barack Obama will become inextricably associated in the public mind with Big Capital."

It is better, and ultimately more respectful, to judge a politician, or any person, by the accumulated body of his work. Based on his record as candidate and president to date, it is plain that Obama sees the world as the bankers see it. He accepts their advice because he agrees with it. He shares their core ethic, and is therefore always forgiving of their "excesses." The fate of his presidency is entwined with theirs.
At some point in the near future Barack Obama will become inextricably associated in the public mind with Big Capital – and deservedly so. No one can predict when this perceptual critical mass will be reached, but once it has occurred, it sticks.

The aftershocks of the recent meltdown and the before-shocks of the next, onrushing crisis of capitalism will bring a cascade of calamities to the doorstep of the White House. With each crisis, Obama will do what we now know comes natural to him: protect capital at all costs to society as a whole.
With their champion saddled with such baggage, it will be interesting to see when "Progressives for Obama" become extinct.

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This article isn´t fair or balanced! by Eugene Elander on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:02:36 PM
Re: This article ins't fair or balanced my foot! by cosmic J. on Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:03:01 AM
Single payer is NOT dead by Mary Pitt on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:22:08 PM
We did try to warn the left didn't we? by Cheryl Abraham on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:49:50 PM
Campaign reform is at the top of all issues. by Janiece Senn on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:39:05 PM
money rules by Carol Crown on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:56:55 PM
I think the article was well thought out - except by Margaret Bassett on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:20:57 PM
Marionette by Keystone on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:47:28 PM
Outstanding! by David Kendall on Friday, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:12:17 PM

 
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