Obama: MOUNTAIN THAT PRODUCED A MOUSE!
Those who are surprised by Obama's shift to the right should not be surprised.
He was never left of the center anyway! All he had is a speech, when he had no power, against the war in Iraq, otherwise he voted 100 percent with Bush and he voted for FISA, to curtail our civil liberties.It is a science it is obvious where he is going!

Inauguration Speech: Failure to Launch

Farhat maquami

No-one can launch a "Mission for Peace" and prosperity with Bush's fabricated "War on Terror" as an ideological search light. Until Obama denounce and reject Bush Doctrine and his "war on Terror" we are not going anywhere with peace!

OBAMA should have started the speech by declaring that Bush's "War on Terror" is over and we are starting a new Era of "Mission for Peace,Hope and Prosperity". we can start a mission for Peace by people who have internalized Terror by six years of propaganda. Like Plato's "allegory of the Cave" they have to be liberated from the scary shadows to believe in change. Well, my fellow American the day of scare tactics is over, set your mind free and lets liberate the world by Peace not War; by empathy not by terror! Bush administration has used every instrument of terror and torture to find those who terrorized us and since they have not found any evidence, any legally acceptable confession I would end the War on Terror and declare the Closure of Guantanamo , Gandoz and Abo Ghareib Prisons and emancipation of all 25000 who are held without charge in US custody. He did not!

Obama’s inauguration expense of more than $170 million dollars, in the middle of recession, produced less than Johnson Inaugural of 1.2 million crowd, with less expense!. Yet the mountain of fan fair, and money, Hollywood celebrities and publicity produced a disappointing mouse! Rick Warren gave more hope to the religious right and Neo-Cons than Obama’s disappointing and colorless speech.
Obama has the makings of a great tele-prompter reader-orator, but his inaugural speech was not a great speech, unlike his stump speeches. It was well-delivered, but it consisted of no new themes, rhetoric, refurbished conservative ideas of self-help, and no solid economic plans to address directly our economic, social and Global crisis. No economic plans for the country, and to end to Bush’s War on Terror. More troops to fight Bush’s Mythical Enemy in Afghanistan.

Obama’s Mountain of hope produced a disappointing and fearful mouse! Wall Street dropped more than 300 points because they saw no hope for real Change! Even after Obama got his wall Street 350 750 billions of “giveaway” Bail-out money, more in TARP money, and promised them 1. 3 trillion dollars of extra expenditure for road, bridges, infrastructures and Green Jobs to nowhere.

snydly
It is still early in the Obama Presidency.

The ONLY way you are going to effect real and constructive change, sheeple about to become real men and women, is to make the hard choices, face the fact that many things are much worse than death, (being a slave comes readily to mind, deliberately ignoring the plight of our own aged parents, sons and daughters as another...) and take the battle directly and personally to our common enemy.

The current squatter was never about "change", other than a change of pace in terms of soundbites to keep you silent, controlled, mindlessly trying to pretend that there actually exists even "2" parties in this benighted epicenter of the worlds corporate criminal cabal, which is, truly, global.

THEY are united in every "nationstate" and will continue the enslavement of all humanity and the life of the planet itself to their barbarian creed of personal social control and material affluence while the world´s peoples starve or worse every single day, while the planet literally speaking implodes on itself because of the poison that some human beings have chosen to represent to all living things.

And you do...what?

There is NO party of any type, there is only a scam. It is a lot larger than the excellent book "War is a Racket", believe me. When will you wake up to the fact that western "civilization" is a racket and a scam from the get-go?

You want change? Make some. The only way you can. Right where you are now. Don´t even TRY to tell me there aren´t any viable targets of opportunity, because I have crossed the continent more than nine times already. Or are you too well fed to get up from that screen and ACT?

"well, gee whizz, what are YOU doing, bla bla bla..."

I WILL give you some hints, in order to help you make those hard choices:

1. I don´t pay a single dime or take a single dime from the corporate interest regime.

2. I don´t serve the corporate criminal in any manner, civilian or military.

3. I buy the absolute MINIMUM to sustain my life.

4. I GIVE AWAY everything I can as often as I can.

5. I am prepared, at any given moment, to give my life HAPPILY in order to see at least one more criminal go down.

6. I, obviously, don´t use a car. Although sensible vehicles are just around the bend, once those deliberate obstacles are removed.

7. I talk until I weep with anybody who will listen concerning our need to pool our local resources, our local collective talents and assets, in order to use less to do more and better. Personal avarice is a far more potent addictive than any opiate derivative, believe me.

8. I am learning at least to develop a garden and the necessary skills that go with that as well as having finished beekeeping school (ahh, yes, the poor, poor bees...)and goat/sheep husbandry classes this spring.

9. I want to save enough funds (which is apparently going to take me years at this rate, whatever) to be able to position my own energy sources such as a small scale windmill for power and water.

10. I constantly plan ways and means to take the local battle directly to the representatives of the enemy of humanity in every manner possible.

Robbing banks is for saps.

Change the paradigm, and watch the fabulous results unfold before your very eyes.

I could go on, but it is not about me per se, nor do i in anyway mean it that way, it is just examples of what can be, for any one of us, whenever we so choose to act.

In closing, let me ask all of you dearly beloved fellow Americans this;

WHY are you living?

God Bless You.

There is much talk these days that the future president Obama is a sell out, a slick Chicago politician out to feather his own nest. Don't worry about it. Barack Obama doesn't have a right-wing bone in his body. The Our Way Is The Right Way attitude is impossible having been exposed to so many ways at a young age. The only constant in his life was his mother, a very nice person who spent her life on charity work. Barack isn't in it for the bucks.

Here in Indonesia Barack Obama is known as Barry as that is the name he used in Jakarta primary school. The national news has interviews with his former classmates and photos of young Barry -- what a smile that kid had -- swinging a baseball bat and playing with his friends. "Barry Elected" is the headline. I've read Barry's first book and found out that his past is even more convoluted than I thought. When his Dad married mother Ruth Dad already had a wife and child back in Kenya that he didn't tell her about. Ruth wouldn't move to Kenya so that was the end of that, then met an Indonesian man in Hawaii and married him. The new Dad went back to Indonesia and Ruth and Barry followed a year later. Unfortunately this new Dad had spent that year in the Indonesian army oppressing West Papuans, a horrible job that ruined his joy in life and made him difficult to be around. Barry went to Muslim school for two years and another school for another two then Mom decided that with little economic opportunity the future wasn't bright and sent Barry back to Hawaii to stay with grandparents and attend an elite boarding school. Barry didn't fit in there either with all the future leaders of Hawaii and most of the book goes on like this, who am I? Hundreds of pages of who am I, trying various groups on for size none of which fit, becoming a teenage stoner, going to New York City and being repelled by the "ridiculous amounts of money," finally winding up in Chicago as a community organizer.

Being a community organizer meant being plopped down in the Altgeld [German for Old Money] Chicago housing project and told, "Organize this." There are all sorts of problems, you do something about it. Hold meetings but no one comes. Barack had to find out what people wanted and organize around that. His main success occurred when he went into the project office and found them working on the pipes. What's this all about? Oh there's asbestos back there. Have you checked out the resident's apartments? Sure, they're all OK. Where's the paper work? In the other office. Needless to say nothing had been done about the resident's dwellings so Barack got a good turnout at his meetings. I do wonder though how he managed to live in Chicago on ten thousand dollars a year. It couldn't have been pretty.

It goes on like this for hundreds of pages unrelieved by humor. It's like an Oregon winter, nothing that bad but it keeps coming, every day, day after day. I couldn't stand living like that, but Barack keeps at it. He would look at the young men in Altgeld and think, that could have been me. After a while their hopelessness begins to frighten him.

There is little cheer until Barack takes a trip to Kenya. "I am Luo!" he says and pounds his chest. At last he feels at home. His grandmother tells him when she first saw a television she thought the people inside were very rude for not talking back. She tells of when the white man came and they thought that the guns were stirring sticks. The white man put a tax on huts and Luos had to work for the white man to get the money to pay the tax. Don't pay, your hut is burned to the ground. Barack's grandfather was an herbalist and a most earnest young man who studied herbology while other young men played. Much as he feels at home in Africa he relates a story of how the airlines won't give him his bag until an important family friend gives them a call. "Everything goes back to connections with the Big Man," he writes. Implied is that the airline was holding Mr. Obama's bag in expectation of a bribe. There is little analysis or ideology, Barack quotes from all sorts of people with all sorts of points of view and leaves it to the reader to work it all out for him/herself.

This is my impression of Barack, the unusual combination of a realist who sees the world as it is with an idealist who sees the world as it could be.

snydly
Check out Paul Hawken's book, "Blessed Unrest". All of Hartmann's and Chalmers Johnson's, too.
If we get business as usual, the system will fall from its own internal contadictions and rot, if not from the weight of money packed into the top 1%.
If we eventually get change, as promised, we may not have as much to complain about.
I hope we get change and everybody empowered to work together, because we're going to need all hands on deck to deal with the climate crisis.

Even if the long nightmare of conservative control of the country may finally be changing, they had their way long enough to accomplish much of their goals. Ever since Reagan got elected in 1980, a huge concentration of wealth has occurred. The obscene millionaires and billionaires have gotten what they wanted. For 25 years they have pretty much had their own way. I still remember the cold feeling I had listening to the election news that night. A lot of the younger people think this current mess started with Bush II, but it goes MUCH further than that. It was Reagan who really laid the groundwork. It was Reagan who was the John the Baptist of the "Greed is GOOD!!!" idea that really blossomed in the 1980's. Please study your history, because messes like the one now do NOT happen overnight. There are clear steps for anyone to see that lead to these sorts of things. In this case, you can trace it from the savings and loan crisis of the late 80's, to the Enron and Worldcom collapse of 2000-2001. But it was Mr. Reagan who really turned loose the economic wolves, the economic Darwinists, the people whose life motto is "if it makes money, you don't make apologies". Until these attitudes in America change, we will not have learned anything from this current crisis, and will just be headed for another one in the near future.

On another note about change. I posted this sometime ago but I feel that this information is relevant even now:

I don't think America and the future president Obama will change things as fundamentally as we would like to think (and as much as we really need). The reason I say this is that things are still not as bad as they were in the Great Depression--the last time there was REAL reform in this country. Although the current economy is nothing to be happy about, it was far worse in the early 30's when FDR was swept into office. Then we had an official unemployment rate of 25% (unofficially probably closer to 40%) and those with jobs had sharply cut wages. The present housing crisis, while bad, can't compare to back then; when in New York alone 5000 families a week were being evicted. When banks were failing by the thousands. My dad was a farmer and he remembers that corn was selling for - 5 cents a bushel--you took corn to the local elevator and you had to pay them five cents to take it. Americans are so wrapped-up in the myth of Yankee self-reliance that only something as drastic as the Great Depression makes us look at real change. Another critical factor present back in the 30's but not present today--a strong sense of solidarity in the laboring classes. It was the fear of the laboring classes in this country finally uniting and taking over the truly frightened the ruling economic elite into allowing fundamental reforms to save themselves. Even with all these factors on his side, FDR still faced tremendous opposition to his reforms; and even an attempted military coup to drive him from office. So while I do feel that Obama will make some changes, I don't think he or the American people--under the present situation--are going to truly tackle the fundamental problems that need to be tackled for true reform to take place. We are all going to have to take the fight for change to the local and state levels first before we can penetrate Washington.

Somewhere someone is having a grand chuckle, as the naive vassals chatter like monkeys in a lab experiment - unaware and incapable of comprehending what is happening to them - clamoring and climbing about with a fevered pitch at the slightest uncertainty - fated to survive or thrive only as their masters deem.

1) International centralized banking system - for the masters, the creation out of thin air of money and profit, for us mere mortal beasts of labor a never ending indebtedness.

2) MIC, the largest corporate-styled business venture ever, though oft-repeated in history - whose entire existence depends on the promulgation of fear and evil, mistrust of fellow beings, hatred, killing and all manner of atrocity - lab monkeys killing lab monkeys in experiments designed to ferret out ever more effective systems of control and domination.

3) Corporate capitalism - with little to no social conscience and no imperative except to create money profits for fellow shareholders - via increasing exploitation of resources, labor and energy, through patronizing subject vassals into continued service - carrots dangled before the beasts of burden, as the beasts carry off the spoils to the victor's domain.

4) Consumerism - enticement and addiction, with all the pain and affliction of withdrawal. Pavlov's dogs conditioned to salivate with anticipation of every new treat, retrieving and entertaining their master through direct manipulation, obedient and forever grateful tail-wagging ignorance.

5) Religion and politics - the psychology of power and domination of spirit, the cage designed to appear as a natural habitat, offering the illusion of freedom and choice, but always within a securely conceived compound, always with imposed constraint and authority, and an absolute system of control beyond the perception and cognizant ability of the caged animal.

6) Authority and rule - the training system by which only the most obedient and compliant may be allowed off their leash or out of their cage. Here the subjugation is nearly complete.

7) Promotion - subjugation complete - the vassal now serves the interest and needs of the master without complaint, devoted to the greater cause, able and willing to act in the master's stead, but never quite an equal.

Rarely there emerges one that is different, whose spirit and cleverness are such that it is able to stand apart even as it is constrained, patient and aware as it complies, waiting for the right moment and opportunity to overcome its expected place, to achieve the unexpected. This is rare and unlikely, and its success will be realized not by its force or through its contending, but by its truth and cunning. It will be achieved through mutual acceptance and respect. It happens with shared dignity and honor as the master and vassal better learn to appreciate the other; as the master's lack of moral superiority becomes better exposed and the vassal's perceived inferiority is mitigated.

The title of Carroll Quigley's book is Tragedy and Hope, because it is presumes that the men of power, the institutions they have created and the methods they practice offer the hope of mankind. But as with other matters of late, the fallacious nature of this would-be man-king arrogance is increasingly exposed as unnatural and unjust, inept and immoral, just as Ghandi made British rule in India obvious. The assumption of British moral superiority and the integrity of their control fell away, to expose the Brits as capable of increasingly atrocious behavior, till they were required to save face in the eyes of the world and slither away.

Ghandi had no real power other than his influence on others, and it was only the collective affect of a great many that made possible India's overthrow of British imperialism.

Where's the change you ask? Where do you think it is suppose to be?

Barack Obama is anything but a progressive.

But that didn't stop DPAers (Democratic Party Apologists) from ignoring the fact that he's simply one more corporatist politician, one more mouthpiece for the Democratic-Republican duopoly.

You wanted "the lesser of the two evils" -- well, soft-left, cruise missle liberals, your evil has arrived, reporting for duty. ... Duty that is to the oligarchic-few.

Here's just one corporatist pick Obama has made -- Paul Volker. See the following, "Who is Paul Volcker? Obama appoints a longtime enemy of the working class"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/volc-n29.shtml

"Masked, I step forth on the stage of the United States of America," are words one might envisage are being entertained in the recesses of Obama's consciousness, and probably of his unconscious.

The problem, though, President-Elect Barack Obama, is that, although you are a very shrewd and very intelligent man (something for which you must be given due credit -- particularly in the light of your immensely deficient predecessors in that department -- and, of course, admiration) -- you forgot that words, in the form of repeated promises and assurances, and lofty pronouncements, do not necessarily override behavior: there is that subtle, and at times not so subtle, play between words and behavior. Among the items of your behavior, your cabinet choices are quite prominent these days in capturing our attention.

These choices are tell-tale lights and they will shape and determine your behavior and your policies in office, no matter what assurances you may give the citizenry about your being the ONE (the LEADER) from whom all decisions emanate and who consequently will set aright all the objectionable (in the eyes of your present critics) histories and qualities of his advisors and cabinet personnel. We know not only from history, but also from probability theory that such a conception of the leader is an ideological fantasy designed at best to placate your electorate for some more time, to delay the inevitable, i.e., the falling of your mask.

your poor sheep, all one needs to seduce you is bleat the word "change", the sheeples are infinitely seducable, they fell for donald reagons one line campaign,
it never stops. so maybe they get what they deserve all these "hopers", believer
another right center government where the foxes that created the wrecked hen house are in charge. and all the old militarists will go on with the victory culture. go team!

Who is Paul Volcker? Obama appoints a longtime enemy of the working class
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/volc-n29.shtml

Obama's election should be viewed only as a psychological and cultural victory for the Civil Right Movement. It would provide a new Logo for the American Militarism to confuse the world without curtailing their New found power or their new agenda to keep the world resources under the control of multinational corporations.Yet for the oppressed and terrorized people of any color he represents imperialism with a Dark Face.

OBAMA: A Neo-Con with a Liberal Mask

FARHAT MAQUAMI

Those on the left, or anti-war movement are surprised by the direction Obama has taken to the right. Lets make it clear Obama has never said he is Anti-War, pro-Black civil right activist, or progressive in economy theory or Future of Military mission of the Empire. As he declared vigorously the night he disconnected his connection with the Black Church and his spiritual mentor :” Reverent Wright does not know me.” He should have continued I used the Black Church to get elected in Chicago, I used them to get elected in the Senate, I used it to unseat Clinton ; since I never thought of my self as Black , never shared their history. I was born from a white mother an a Kenyan Father.

The infatuation of the Liberal America and disillusioned Americans with the Republican Party,
and 6 years of war which has brought disrepute to America outside and economic bankruptcy to the US economy, has not permitted them to question Obama’s Policies. Yet, sooner or later the Liberals would notice that they have been betrayed not in the war in Iraq but a wide range of policies. Lets analyze all the contradictions. The trick is the phrase he is using now “seamless transition”!

In Defense he is going to use Robert Gate so the Bush agenda in Iraq would continue ”seamlessly” ! He has never made a clear statement after the election about Iraq. He never told Iraqis that he is getting out in 18 months and they better vote to pick-up the bill.
Like Bush and McCain he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay Torture Chamber, but he is not saying how to release the torture victims or how is he going to prosecute those who violated the international law and American Human Right Principals by torturing innocents, driving many to commit suicide and others who have become mentally deranged. He is not declaring to the World that Americans are going to wash their hands of the blood of innocents in Abo Gharieb prison by bringing these criminals to trial. He wants bi-partisanship, while Bush drove this country to the edge of madness by far lesser Vote in a disputed election and never sought bipartisanship for his reign of terror.
In iraq, he now wants a “seamless” withdrawal and carry it out by letting the same Generals follow the same agenda and carry us to hell of political disrepute and economic disaster.
He forced the Democrats to keep Liberman, who is more vicious than Bush administration toward Iraq and Domestic surveillance as Chairman of the powerful Homeland Security. The left is still simmering in infatuation so all concern have not even considered the implication of this stupid act as Obama’s framework of action toward war and national security.
He put a 4 Star general and a close friend of McCain in charge of his National Security.
He has made many speeches and funny interviews, yet he has not still told the world that the vicious, illegal, and universally condemned Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War would be rejected on his first day in office. This would assure the world that we would be entering a new era of cooperation, diplomacy and the rule of law.
He is probably going to announce that he would keep the FBI and the CIA Director for another seamless transition rather that making a declaration that while in presidency he would ensure that he would issue a new Executive Order to stop all Extraordinary Renditions and Country’s adherence to Geneva Convention.
In order to calm the world he also should declare that he would stop the War on Terror which has not only terrorized the world but encouraged and enabled every anti-democratic regimes and every Feudal Warlord to use the most vicious methods to terrorize their own people. We have never heard from him that he is a man of Peace, wants to bring Peace to the World and to achieve this would stop supporting the undemocratic government. Most opposition of various Islamic group is not to Americans or America but to the American support of their oppressive regimes and therefore America is going to bring Peace to the world, not by arms but by diplomacy.
In the economic arena Obama has proved to be the advocate of “Socialism for the Rich” He was the one who actually intimidated 15 Black representatives to vote for Bush 700 Billion package which went to subsidize the Banks and their toxic assets, bad debts and mortgages. His economic team are insiders, responsible for our economic disaster,and candidate of Wall Street.
Building an economic base means that this country must produce goods that we may sell and have factories, building roads, solar panels, and bridges in which to transport manufactured products from China, India and Mexico is not the answer. Until we reject the principal of out-sourcing our jobs and stop spending on guns future wars we are throwing the future of this great nation.
He has never revealed how we are going to pay for 5 Trillion Dollars that Federal Reserve is printing Money out of the Tin Air in order to save this economy. How we are going to survive if we do not negotiate our way out of NAFTA . How the 5 trillion dollars of increase in National Debts would impair our prosperity as a debtor nation that must devalue its currency

Change is all around.

The flower of hope is blossoming.
Let a hundred flowers blossom.

Can we create change?

I think we can...
I think we can...

Yes, we can.

How about a solution:

http://www.thoughts.com/RedNeckPossie/blog/a-way-to-give-power-back-to-the-people-184665/

A Hint Of Change?

"Based on?"

"For three days in a row the president-elect holds a press conference where, in regard to the economy, he assures us that help is on the way."

"Anything else?"

"Following each of these press conferences the stock market rises sharply."

Nader had all the good, moral positions yet virtually no one was willing to
support his campaign(wouldn't want to appear ridiculous amoung
all our Obama loving liberal friends, would we?).

Now that he is elected, the complaints about Obama start.
Gimme a break!

Well, many of us said don't have any illusions about Obama. It's going to take one heck of a mobilized effort to get him to do the "right thing".

Bush doesn't need to issue a de jure pardon for his accomplices, because Obama has already issued a de facto pardon. The new president will not pursue war and human rights criminals because that would implicate members of his new team, plus the husband of his secretary of state.

Bill Clinton's administration invented "extraordinary rendition," more prosaically known as kidnapping, forced disappearance, conspiracy to violate human rights and torture by proxy.

Any investigation, and subsequent prosecutions, cannot rely on a de facto statute of limitations for offenses prior to 20 January 2001, so Obama will scuttle the whole concepts of rule of law, accountability and respect for human rights. While he might halt the outrages, he will neither regain the respect of the world and the tolerance of our potential enemies by prosecuting the guilty, nor deter future wrongdoing.

Alex

Business dominates the United States, including both parties. The Democrats are using this opportunity to establish themselves as the party of fiscal conservatism.

"Eisenhower Republicans! We're all Eisenhower Republicans!" -- An exasperated Bill Clinton

The Democrats are the party of business, war, and fiscal conservatism. The Republicans are the party of business, war, fiscal irresponsibility, demagoguery, torture, and hate. The idea is that the Democrats can take the position of the Eisenhower Republicans, while the Republicans will be stuck with the redneck vote.

If you want something other than that, you'll have to work for it.

These discussions have a wearisome quality to them.

It is clear that most folks simply do not know the true influences of power, or what it is that the president as a man can actually accomplish. They want to attribute an omnipotent quality and effect to the position that was never meant to be (this explains Bush), and then complain about the result. They do not realize their own role in creating an actual functioning democracy, which is greater than merely casting a vote. And there are too many poorly formed ideals as to what a system of government is to be, how it is to function, and what it is to serve.

When will this stop being about what others do for or to us? When will it become about what we ourselves do?

We have the opportunity and means, but not the will, to pursue and institutionalize the power of the people under Amendment X. Instead, we find it easier to leave all the responsibility and acts of power to the existing branches, allowing them to overreach their authority. We then whine and bicker like children about what should have been a clearly foreseeable outcome. We find it unsatisfactory but apparently easier to allow the corruption of power rather than to seize power ourselves. We have gone from who cares to WTF, and can find no greater solace than to condemn every conceivable failing, whilst ignoring our own.

It is folly to think of government of, by and for the people when the people persist in merely assigning responsibility (and blame) to others. It is ignorant to think that a government, any government or any person in that government should exist as an all encompassing all powerful entity, wherein every consideration and hope and justice is resolved. We have no right to complain about the disconnect between our wants and this wielding of power when we ourselves do little to nothing to actually partake in and affect it.

At some point we must recognize how a government can and must be checked by those it serves. Interesting enough, the corporations have managed to figure this out, even though they have less legal standing and no particular constitutional protections. They have purchased their influence at our expense, and we have allowed it. Yet, the corporations have no power that we don't give them. We make their products and provide their services. We buy their goods and invest in their capitalization.

Then we elect their puppets and do nothing but complain as to how we aren't represented.

And these discussion are the best we can come up with?

Don't you know that Mr. Obama is appointing the "best and the brightest" to get us out of the quagmires of Mr. Bush.

BTW, the first time the term "best and the brightest" was used to describe a cabinet of ruling elite was under the Kennedy administration. This is also the same "best and the brightest" who took us into Vietnam and perpetuated that corrupt war which killed millions.

To me the term "best and the brightest" is a red flag meaning "the worst and stupidest."

Thia is just hilarious!! I told my Obama loving son and daughter that this was going to happen and they got all bent out of shape at me. They just couldn't imagine that Obama is just like McCain is just like Bush is just like Clinton(s) is just like Kerry is just like all of them down in that rathole called Washington DC.

There isn't a good or noble politician among any of them down there. They are all panderers of the worst sort, whores who would make a .25 cent street walker blush for shame, prostitutes to the highest corporate bidder, and if they don't go along with the program, they will get JFK'ed somewhere somehow.

Obama is just the next in a long line of failures. It is already coming to light!

CHANGE OBAMA....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P805m1REFEs

Somebody please send me the new definition of change. Someone seems to have changed it.

Rickster

Barack Obama’s choice to head the budget office is on record favoring a reduction in Social Security benefits.

On Tuesday, Obama picked Peter Orszag to direct the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Orszag believes that Social Security benefits should be cut back to help balance the Social Security Trust Fund over the next 75 years.

This is Change???

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it's a friggin duck! Now what? Dig deep, take care of our immediate environment; we CAN do that.

Spoiled Liberal who expects a leader who will not support misguided war policy and insane fiscal practice. (Can you imagine if you practiced the aforementioned behaviors in your personal life? That's right, hated and broke. Duh!)

The way it’s supposed to work, Obama as Prez tells his “crew” what to do and they do it. He provides the “what” that needs doing and the crew provides the “how” that “what” gets done. Experience in knowing how to effect change is wonderful because it expedites getting things done. After eight years of a helmsman who ran our ship of state, ie, America, like a blind drunken pirate, it’s going to take a little time to fix things. Obama’s “whats” are what count and as long as they’re nothing like Bush’s “whats” America’s gonna be okay. Given the right marching orders, experienced worker bees do better than novices.

RJW

I can hardly wait to see how little Obama is going to do. The suspense is killing me.

Maybe we need to allow the new "decider" to actually be in office before we criticize too much.

This is a tenuous time; a country at war and in financial and industrial free-fall.

Obama stated himself that things will get worse before they get better. So, better to be cautious and not change too radically too fast .... otherwise, the public will blame the new policies and not the previous administrations for the mess we are in.

I think Obama is clever enough to know that we also need experience in the time of crisis. A football coach does not hire basketball players for the sake of change. Rather, he changes his strategy on the field of play. He directs the talent and experience of his team. That is what Obama says he will do. His approach to solving problems is the change.

I think I see what Obama is doing. By appointing the people who are responsible for and supported the current mess we're in, by their advice he will definitely know that's not the way we should be heading. The only problems is does he have what it takes to get them to support the way he decides to take.

I'm tempted to go hide somewhere and hope the American people wake up and quit voting for the lessor of two evils. By then it may be to late.

Rickster

Maybe Obama is smart enough to know that the whole house of cards is going down, so he's appointing most of those responsible, like Summers who helped engineer the overturning of Glass-Steagel, and Hillary the warrior queen, and Gates etc. etc.. It's his way of punishing them, make them really see the errors of their ways. THEN, he'll fire them all, after we've hit bottom, and appoint those he really wants. Is there any other explanation?

All that is not identical has passed through a change. Some of the faces have changed, ergo – mandate accomplished!

Another sucker who can't believe a politician, of all people, pulled the old bait and switch.

GWB promised compassionate conservatism, remember? Uniter not divider? 50 million fell for that shit, too.

Clinton promised to restore ethics. Ha ha ha.

BO voted for telecom immunity, the bailouts, illegal occupation funding; he gratefully accepted bribes - er, contributions - from Citi and Freddie and the rest of the bank robbers; and he repeatedly spoke of his desire to continue and expand the phony "war on terror," just to name a few of the many clear warnings of the future BO was actually promising.

Yet, so many are now so shocked their "hope" that he would be "different" has been quashed so quickly. Guess blinders come in both Red and Blue...

How could anyone be surprised that the Left is now (again) marginalized and powerless. I mean, really, did you expect something...different?

It's called "chump change."

Some folks just don't get it. Given the lack of third-party support during this past election, they never will, it seems.

The Bill Clinton campaign also had a kind of flair for roping in the rubes. Clinton called it, "real change" back then. Now, whenever I think of that phrase, I think of Clinton's accent - the wailing tone of a Southern Baptist minister. I'm not sure how Clinton managed to say "real change" without laughing, but he pulled it off, and most loyal Democrats still don't get the joke today.

Some people writing here say they are still waiting on Obama. I think Obama's campaign phrase was, "We are the change we've been waiting for." It sounds like an endless loop in computer programming where the premise never comes true. All you do is wait for change, but you get more of the same, so you never get change.

I'm not saying that voters are dumb. The U.S. election process ensures plutocratic control. It's just that some posters here actually seem to have believed Obama's campaign rhetoric. I sure hope they will get angry as they see that they have been betrayed once again. So, I guess, in that sense, I have some hope, albeit faint.

-TIA

. . . he tells us that we have only one president at a time and that president is George W. Bush.

Yes, George Wanker Bush who today said he "liberated" the Iraqis. If death is liberation, I'll stay a slave.

Someone has already noted that a bowl of soup could succede Bush as president and do a better job. That being said, if you are only noticing now a lack of “progressive” in Obama’s genes, well …