The first time he came he could walk on water. Now, some are wondering whom he is carrying water for.
Is Obama carrying water for the rich people and the establishment he ran against? Or is he simply overcompensating for being called a radical and a socialist? The opposition has repeated that big lie so often and so loudly that it becomes believable to millions of otherwise sane people.
Ironically the more our President moves to the center trying to prove that he’s no radical, and certainly not a socialist, the more the right wing tea party Republicans move the center to the right. They’ve played this cynical game as long as I can remember when a real loser of a Senator, McCarthy of Wisconsin, learned he could flush a covey of liberals simply by waving a paper and bellowing that liberals were communists.
People who understand socialism know that Barack Obama is not a socialist. He is a centrist in every sense of the word. Moreover, he’s a centrist with a rightward lean. Europeans laugh when right-wingers call Hillary and Barack leftist.
A cartoon depicting a right-winger and a left-winger holding signs, had one saying, “I hate Obama. He’s a socialist.” And the other, “I hate Obama. He’s not a socialist. The recent midterm bloodletting begs the question - did running away from the dem record of achievement save any seats? No. Democrats could not possible have lost more seats and we may even have been able to save some. Independents might have given Obama and the Dems credit for at least standing their ground. But when Democrats ran away from their own accomplishments, how could independents and middle of the roaders stick with Obama, “the change artist.”
Adding insult to injury, far right Republicans gearing up for 2012 are now promising, “CHANGE.” Ignoring the fact that they obstructed every effort to save the country, cynical Republicans trumpet, “Obama couldn’t get the job done in 18 months, give us a chance and we will do better.”
Maybe one reason for Democratic capitulationism is the fact that liberals, progressives and left radicals failed to maintain pressure on Obama to do the right thing and stand up to the crazies. The administration also incredibly turned its back on young people, failing to assign anyone in government the task of continuing the mobilization that was so important to Obama’s victory.
The political spectrum in this country, after more than a century of red baiting, has now shifted so far to the right that the Republican Party itself is proving to be too liberal. Their tigers, Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and Bachman, egged on by numerous crazies – the Delaware witch, etc. are so addicted to blood and political mayhem, that the tigers they’ve unleashed are likely to tear their handlers. Tan Man and mainstream Republicans are hanging on to the tiger’s tail for dear life. To mix the metaphor, will Dr. Frankenstein control the monster or vice versa? Old-line Republican leaders don’t seem to have the guts to stand against their crazies.
Do we, Mr. President?
Lead us Obama and we will have your back. We are whom we have been waiting for but we do require a leader. If you chicken out, and we chicken out, how long will it be before corporate fascism runs America from behind the Oz curtain?
We fell into this predicament because we were happy and relieved to see Obama elected. From jump we should have been on him to do the right thing. The things he promised during the campaign. We dare not make the same mistake between now and the presidential election in two years.
Bob Zellner
Southampton, NY.
Bob,
ReplyDeleteI am in agreement with your conclusion and was overjoyed to see Obama elected. However, like many elected presidents before him they are just front man to the corporate fascism that runs America. Better him then me the corporation say!
This has been happening in America for quite some time. It has only been recently that some have awoken from there GMO eating, fluoride drinking, over-vaccinated, trample people to shop but am bankrupt American. WAKE UP AMERICA! They are behind our less than satisfying food, water , and money. My view is an observation only.
During the election, he slipped several times about his true intentions, his socialists leanings, his religious faith, and his past associations. But through a complicit media that would do anything to see him elected, a large percentage of a brainwashing populace that wanted a savior, and the opposition campaigns inability to formulate a cohesive platform for their candidate to run on, he was never subjected to rigorous questioning about those remarks or associations that should have caused alarm bells to go off in every quadrant of the nation.
The tactics he used was of the Chicago mob mentality, the mentality that tyrants and dictators use to consolidate power and then crush all opposition. His qualification fore office did not get him elected, the depth of his character and convictions did not get him in the white house. A well-oiled campaign, lies, his refusal to disclose, a willing media, and a populace content with outward appearance that have no substance put obama into the white house.
In conclusion, We want what we want- now.
The consequences can be damned.
After the Constitutional Convention, a women asked Ben Franklin what type of government they had crafted for them. " A Republic madam, if you can keep it" was his reply. The gift our or forefathers gave us in the form of this republic, the united states of America, is in danger of being lost.
It may already be.
What our are options in this new world order? How do we survive an era of invading totalitarians, military intervention in civilian affairs, and enforced martial law?
How do we prepare for the day when we throw off the chains of an oppressive government and emerge as free men and women once again. We will get it again through education, intention, and awareness. That is my choice.
Uncle Bob, I agree with what you've said concerning Obama. So far he's done a good job; my only complaint is that he needs to grow a damn backbone. It's certainly true that we need to get him to stick to his guns, but the question is: How?
ReplyDeleteWhat the health, what you said concerning our President is exactly what's wrong with our country today. We show absolutely no respect to our leaders and continue to spread these idiotic lies and rumors as if they are the Gospel. When will it stop? Let me ask you: When did he slip concerning "his true intentions, his socialists leanings, his religious faith, and his past associations"? I'd really like to know.