What can we logically conclude from Obama's appointments, interviews, etc., to date?
Well, it ain't good. First, it's heart breakingly obvious that many of his most critical appointments are MILITANTLY anti Palestinian and anti Muslim. Ergo, so much for his b.s. campaign promises about a diplomatic approach to the Middle East. In short, it looks like it's going to be samo, samo war mongering for the next four years.
And it WILL be for only four years, because Americans are fed up with Presidential (and now Presidential Elect) lies to the skies. We've been down that road with the corporate fascism and religious fanaticism of Bush. Also, we should NEVER forget that it's a matter of objective, historical record that Prescott Bush (Bush's treacherous grandfather) tried to engineer a German coup d'etat in America during the 30's, but FDR stopped it in its tracks. Ironically, the dufus grandson may have done much better, since America is now crawling with WW2 type fascists and our Constitutional Republic is in ruins. We should also remember that much of the Bush Family fortune came from secret "deals" the Bush's made with the Nazis.
However, back to Barack Obama and the astounding discrepancies between what he promised he would do (over and over again during the primaries and the Presidential campaign) and the VERY RIGHT WING direction of his upcoming presidency.
Perhaps the biggest problem in America is that we are now saddled with two political parties, BOTH of which are very far to the right of what the exit and political polls overwhelming indicate is an American electorate mostly made up of progressives, moderates, and independents. Indeed, this was precisely the political base (again the demonstrable MAJORITY of the country) which elected him.
Thus NEITHER party is even close to the will of the American people.
Meaning? Clearly our fundamentally ONE dem/pug party political system is manifesting the will of:
(1.) A national/international tiny cabal of multimillionaire and multibillionaire Greek God like elites,
(2.) The Israeli lunatic fringe of right wing fanatics who do NOT represent the will of the complex state of Israel, even though these are exactly the people and American special interest groups the Clinton's have been licking the boots of for decades, plus
(3.) Palin-type religious fanatics and Third Reich loving skinheads who, once again, do not even minutely represent the will of the United States of America.
So, where is Obama in all of this? Alas, it's really nonsense to think the jury is still out on that question since Obama has morphed into Bill Clinton and the self same DLC Clinton machine that puked out the 2006 Congress of right wing dem traitors.
And this DLC Clinton machine, in turn, is a puppet of national/international elites and extremist Israeli right wing fanatics who have been dictating American foreign policy for the last eight years via the neocon cablal. Perhaps we should call Obama's recycled neocons the neo-neocons.
It's really very simple. Somewhere along the line, perhaps well before the primaries, the factual evidence to date (e.g., appointments, interviews, etc.) indicates that Obama sold his soul to the elites, neo-neocons, and the DLC Clinton machine.
The one exception is his appointment for Attorney General who must be giving nightmares to racist southern sheriff's (and Godspeed to that!), but what about all the rest of us? What about the working class? What about the middle and lower classes? It's almost an agony to watch Obama's emerging policies about the economy because:
(1.) His "team" is mostly made up of the same slobs, crooks, and greed heads who set up things to make this recession possible IN THE FIRST PLACE (nearly all Clinton appointees), and
(2.) He seems to be infinitely more compassionate to the Wall Street, car company, and even oil company CEO's and their underlings, than to us poor slobs, i.e., "main street" America. But, but, but . . . aren't these exactly the people who have already locked in "retirements" in the tens of millions? FDR dealt with something like this, and he took back around 90% of the money from these parasites feeding on the labor of the working Americans. Well, the FDR comparison to Obama is now a literal obscenity. RDF, maybe, i.e., Republican/Democratic/Fraud.
It's been said that politics in America has degenerated into a war/campaign between businesses and thus "elections" are really advertising campaigns between two businesses. Indeed, this is almost certainly the most accurate way to describe the real world of American politics. The convincer is the self evident truth that "adverting" has NOTHING to do with communicating information and facts, but exactly the contrary, since it succeeds in getting you to buy their soap to the precise degree that it deludes you into believing things that are totally false so you will buy junk which you neither need nor can afford.
From this perspective, Obama is simply the soap his adverting machine tricked us into buying. Would McCain have been worse? Almost certainly, but that doesn't change the fact that the Obama "soap" isn’t cleaning ANYTHING.
For the record, this is also the view of the one person in America who has seen ALL THE WAY THROUGH American politics for decades. Of course, we're talking about the genius/conscience of America, Noam Chomsky, who has been excommunicated from the national media because even 85 IQ CEO's sensed that Chomsky was 100% percent in touch with reality -- and still is. Hence, he terrified fascist/elites because evil best functions in a Heart of Darkness. Well, Chomsky kept turning on the lights. And even during his death rattle (still very far away if we're lucky) he'll still be the voice of objective truth about both America and the social/political dynamics of the entire planet.
The Obama bottom line is grim. Its here we go again with chronic presidential lies and "choosing the lesser of the evils" and having to "make the best of things".
But "choosing the lesser of the evils" and "making the best of things" is CRAP. Isn't that exactly what Obama's adverting machine convinced us Obama would end? Wasn't the Obama soap advertised that it would be the soap of "change", and isn't that EXACTLY (and only!) why we voted for him in the first place? Weren't we brainwashed into believing that Obama would be the incarnation of the idealism, rationality, and morality of the MAJORITY of American citizens and voters?
However, no matter how you spin it, the guy's turning out to be totally just the new Presidential slumlord in the American Dictatorship of the Rich.
Ugh.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
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