By Timo Cerantola
Six months of President Obama and the best thing I can say about Barack is that he’s not George Bush. Granted, he may be smarter than that banal skin sack Bush, but if the outcome is the same, does it really matter?
Is a knife in your back better than one through your heart? Whatever happened to the change he promised?
To date, all I see is politics as usual. You know, first win public approval with lies and promises and then, do whatever the hell those with the real power tell you to do. It now seems apparent that President Obama is merely a brand – a product brought to you by Corporate USA – the corporation that owns America and all of its subsidiaries.
So far, president (and part-time superhero and media star) Obama “THE MAN OF CHANGE” has continued leading with Bush league policies.
Here’s change Obama style:
He has bombed Pakistan several times. He plans to leave Guantanamo open for another year (while he expands Bagram?). He says he will withdraw the troops from Iraq next year – and leave a mere 50,000 troops and several military bases operational – all subject to Pentagon review (with options to remain as long as the Pentagon sees fit – which is anywhere from 2 to 10 years according to which General you listen to). Also, Obama has made no mention of the hundred thousand or so ‘contractors’ (mercenaries) the US employs in Iraq.
And finally, Obama is continuing George Bush’s plan of bailouts for wealthy people in banking and on Wall Street. That’s right kids; Obama seems content to continue with the Bush economic strategy of ‘no greedy wall street bastard left behind.’
Like Bush before him, Obama too believes that corporate and bank losses should be the responsibility of the taxpayer – and that corporate and bank profits the responsibility of corporations and banks.
In case you forgot people, capitalism already has a plan in place for banks that go broke – they go bankrupt and their stockholders lose all their money. And, the people who ran, pimped and thieved for those banks they ran into the ground find other work – (hopefully not in banking or anywhere near other people’s money).
What has changed so far?
Obama has built a government out of white-collar criminals, lobby group bootlickers and corporate elite lap dogs. Is this the change Obama spoke of?
Obama has empowered the same corporate criminals (and spawn of satan) who, with obvious conflict of interest, believe the solution to our econmic problems is to help wealthy people maintain their wealth – at the expense of generations of taxpayers.
Yet each day, as more and more American people lose their jobs and homes and take up residence in tent cities whilst lining up for food stamps, their president bails out crooks. Hey Barack, where’s their bailout? They got beat up by the stock market too! (Fortunately, I still have my Beanie Baby collection – which now represents my entire pension savings).
I imagine soon, (within a year or two) the US dollar will collapse – this will lead to a collapse in the US economy at large, hence severe unemployment, poverty and eventually civil unrest and violence. Then, martial law will be declared. The media will all get together to sell martial law to the public as the best possible solution for the country. Naturally, the people will buy into the big lie and be thankful for martial law – an Orwellian parallel of staggering proportions.
And so, as this economic Titanic sinks into the depths, Barack Obama like George Bush before him, is busy preparing seats on the lifeboats for the richest among us. The rest are being locked down in steerage and are about to go down with the ship.
To those of you who entertain the delusion that our financial woes will soon be over due to Obama’s superhuman ministrations, I view you as merely evidence that reality, like science, is no longer considered valid when it proves to be contrary to political theatre and propaganda.
If you are not fond of reality, I recommend you watch more television. Yes, television – where healthy minds go to die. I believe if you flip on your TV right this minute, you can catch America’s Biggest Loser, Jerry Springer or the mainstream network news (if you’re into fiction).
As the book says, “You shall know them by their deeds” – and so far, Barack Obama’s deeds speak volumes. Furthermore, I know that saying this is like walking into a NRA meeting wearing an Osama Bin Laden costume but here goes – Barack Obama is a fraud. Sorry, if the truth hurts.
The US is not leaving Iraq as promised. Obama ‘the man of change’ is willing to let bygones be bygones with American war criminal George W. Bush and those in his administration (who were only following orders).
By all standards of law, George W. Bush is a war criminal. The world witnessed this criminality in his illegal war against Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of innocents died and their country was destroyed. Bush was responsible for torture and several US constitution violations such as spying on Americans, illegal wiretaps and secret detentions. But, Obama says, lets look forward not backward.
The people elected Obama so that he would clean up corporate crime and greed and regulate the financial system so that the public would regain its trust in it. Obama was elected because he was going to restore America’s reputation around the world. Obama was elected because he was going to get the US out of Iraq ENTIRELY! Obama wasn’t elected so that he would expand a winless war and start bombing Pakistan.
What a typical politician he’s turned out to be. If Obama wants the confidence of his nation, perhaps its time to find some balls and stand up and be the leader of all the people, not just a mouthpiece for the elite. But as it turns out, no surprises here. Obama is cut from the same lying piece of shyte that Bush was. The presidency is merely a (insert your favorite nasty word here) country club. And like most presidents, Obama prefers to sound like a leader rather than behave like one.
Good-bye American Dream, hello American nightmare. [end]
