I guess no one picked up on his campaign rhetoric, reviewed his voting record or took a close look at the advisers and cabinet choices he has made. Has anyone noticed - or does anyone even care that Obama’s cabinet appointments are the same old white-collar criminals and warhawks that we usually find in Washington’s power elite?
Did anyone pay attention during Obama’s campaign?
As I recall, according to Obama’s election record, he is for private sector health plans run by big insurance, conservative medical/hospital associations and big pharma. He has publicly rejected a universal national health program.
He is for continuing the embargo on Cuba and hostile confrontation with Venezuela’s populist (and democratically elected) President Hugo Chavez - and all other Latin American reformers. (Obama will promote protectionism at home but demands free market access to Latin America?).
Obama was a former defender of the Palestinian people but is now an AIPAC toadie in full support of oppressing the Palestinian people and the continued expansion of Israel into the West Bank.
Obama endorsed the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street - and continues to support any and all attempts to first save the wealthy on Wall Street as opposed to the US economy.
Obama is for escalating US military intervention in Afghanistan - which now, apparently after his first week in office, includes the bombing of neighboring Pakistan.
Still, I guess Obama’s true litmus test will come when we see him repeal the Patriot Act. If he leaves it the way it is, all I can say is - meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Now the one good thing about George Bush was, it was easy to criticize George. His idiocy was unrivaled and so obvious. But with Obama and his Obamamaniac supporters, even constructive criticism will be difficult. His presidency has already taken on mythological proportions.
So, can we expect more massive bailouts, perhaps into the tens of trillions of dollars?
Obama’s already told Americans to get ready for the prospect of “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come.”
You do realize this money has to be paid back at some time, right? Paid back by your grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren.
I imagine that once Obama starts raising taxes to pay for these bailouts (oops, did I say bailout, I meant stimulus packages) of the rich, this Obama fantasy bubble will burst just like all those economic bubbles, because there are no miracles in store for America, only debt. Enormous debt. Debilitating debt.
Eventually, reality will sink in. The many deluded Obamazombies will doubtlessly be disappointed when their taxes go up and their quality of life goes down. As jobs are lost, foreclosures and bankruptcies continue to mount and neighborhoods become deserted; maybe then Obama’s sheeple will realize he has no miracle solutions up his sleeve. His limitations will be revealed when the economy bottoms out in the next year or so - and when the lines of the jobless, homeless and hungry can’t get the “change” they expected from their new leader.
The public, as usual, has been seduced by eloquent oratory and shallow promises. Promises that likely will not, and possibly, cannot be kept. And though Obama is obviously a man of superior intellect, as far as I can tell, he does not have superpowers beyond those of mere mortal men.
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