After a year in office the American people have a much better idea of who the man who is currently serving as President really is. It is clear that us liberals and progressives did not get the candidate we thought we were electing. Not at all.
Obama now claims that he did not campaign on the “public option.” He actually campaigned on the “single payer” system, which is even better than the PO. Saying that he did not campaign for the PO is actually downright dishonest and deceptive.
He kept on the top Bush people on the economy and warfare. He presided over the largest bail out of (give away to) the super rich in history. He speaks nice words, but his actions as commander in chief are those of a right-wing warmonger. He has not ended the wars, and he has not closed down all the secret jails. He did not stand up to the drug companies, the health insurance companies, the military, or the right wing. He has not achieved any meaningful reform of Wall Street and financial re-regulation.
It is now clear that Obama is a spineless coward who is perfectly happy to compromise his values and beliefs. He is a chicken; afraid of getting his hands dirty or any fight.
By the George Bush standard of intelligence and sounding articulate when reading from a teleprompter Barack Obama scores very well.
By the GB standards of candidness and honesty to the American people he scores just a little bit better than Bush.
Certainly the ambulance chaser, cheating lawyer from North Carolina would not have been better. Nor John Kerry, or the Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson.
Does the American form of democracy weed out all the honest men long before they ever work their way up to important positions of power? The pervasive corruption of campaign finance appears to be well on its way to destroying democracy in America.
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