The Obama personality cult took a while to firmly establish itself, but now that it has become entrenched, Obama is free to continue the evil practices of the Bush administration: endless war; secret government; and neo-feudal wealth redistribution. The reason Obama gave for blocking the release of torture evidence (protecting the troops) is exactly the same reason Bush and Rumsfeld used when attempting to block the release of the Abu Ghraib photographs. It is a shabby rationalization intended to protect torturers.
Reasoned criticism and moral outrage roll off Obama’s teflon coating just the way they did when Reagan was President. Nothing sticks, and the buck never stops at the White House. Obama could fly down to Guantanamo and personally execute one of the prisoners tomorrow, and some zombie on DKos would praise his statesmanlike action. The Obama government is now even more dangerous than the Bush regime, because the public enthusiastically supports the continuation of Bush policies by America’s new super-salesman. America is sinking deeper into evil as Obama smiles and the mob applauds.
* Obama is actively waging two hugely expensive and destructive wars while INCREASING the defense budget.
* Obama is blocking the prosecution of torturers, past and present, in the US government.
* Obama is enriching and aggrandizing the Wall Street firms that caused the financial crisis.
* Obama is preserving a profit-driven health care system that puts the interests of corporate health care “providers” above those of citizens.
* Obama is using secrecy, disinformation, and propaganda as the primary tools of his administration, while steadily breaking his campaign promises of “transparency” in government.
How much deeper do we have to sink into evil before the American people demand honest and accountable leadership? When will this darkness end?
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— President Obama’s War Budget: Analyzing the Numbers
to becoming the second-worst president.
Reason: He’s behaving as if shrub would have turned out OK if WMD had been found in Iraq.
IOW, he’s behaving as if the evils shrub perpetrated were not wrong per se.
Obama’s on his own quest…not for WMD, but for a rainbow at the end of the day…a rainbow that will make all well.
Memo to Obama: It’s not a rainbow you’ll find. Just a huge rotting corpse of lies and cover-ups, the stench of which you won’t able to wash off.
Obama will continue to laugh at we poor slobs who were dumb enough to fail to see that he was the hand-picked puppet of the Wall Street/Military-Industrial Complex and further some of us even dumber to have contributed regularly to his campaign. That was the ultimate con job of the masters of the Banana Republic nation we live in. Give them credit, they are really deviously good at what they do.
Here it was 2004, Iraq falling apart, the country becoming fed up with this clown George W. Bush and even if they could steal another election in November, our masters had to be thinking already of 2008. And, lo and behold, out of nowhere comes keynote speaker Barack Obama, obscure Illinois legislator with a conveniently and recently opened Senate seat to run for. Like another former President, ex-keynote speaker Bill Clinton, Obama had all the right ingredients to co-opt the left: a minority candidate, a former activist from the streets of Chicago, opposed to the Iraq War from the start (??), a child of a sixties counter-culturist…manna from Heaven!
Only now he’s taking his plays right out of Karl Rove’s playbook: he’s the new War President! Afganhistan, Iraq, protecting waterboarders and wiretappers. Pouring taxpayer funds into Wall Street at the expense now of even Social Security and Medicare. He will have his reward in eight years time, lucrative Wall Street arranged speaking fees and the Obama Foundation…the game goes on!
And on the Orange Page the comments and replies come in with the consistent and conversation ending retort:
“Well, He A’int George W. Bush! Trumped you, now STFU or leave!”