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Think You Understand Obama?


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The Leader Obama Wanted to Become and What Became of Him | David Bromwich

Read the whole article it is well worth it.

For some time now, observers -- a surprisingly wide range of them -- have been saying that Barack Obama seems more like a king than a president. Leave aside the fanatics who think he is a "tyrant" of unparalleled powers and malignant purpose. Notions of that sort come easily to those who look for them; they are predigested and can safely be dismissed. But the germ of a similar conclusion may be found in a perception shared by many others. Obama, it is said, takes himself to be something like a benevolent monarch -- a king in a mixed constitutional system, where the duties of the crown are largely ceremonial. He sees himself, in short, as the holder of a dignified office to whom Americans and others may feel naturally attuned.

Not really a TYT fan but he has done a very good job summing this up.

 
Hey, great article, thanks. Amazing that it was published in HuffPost. And I agree with Mr. Prime.
I gave up on the current POTUS when he did nothing, just nothing, during the Gulf Spill... let BP sort out its own business on our sovereign shores, OK.... That was
it for me. And I'm ashamed to say I actually (the first time) voted for him. "Don't follow leaders; watch the parking meters".
 
U.S. Presidents are little more than meat puppets for proles to either worship or throw tomatoes at, well-compensated actors.

I have difficulty believing a Yale man doesn't know that.
In North American nations,
run by corporations,
the only playstation
a presidential machination
can concoct, in my estimation,
is to feed, or over feed, the corporation.
 
This video was funny. Every day more and more young people are waking up to the fact that politicians do not serve them, and never will.

(Mo' better effective propaganda because she's cute! :))

 
I've reached the part of Caro's LBJ biography covering the years of the Great Depression. And events leading up the the Great Depression sound eerily familiar. We are currently nowhere near levels of suffering and deprivation of those times. But the usual cast of characters was in place, then as now. Corporations controlling society's key interests--energy, banking transportation, export etc.--owned 90 plus percent of lawmakers at state and federal levels by bribery and intimidation. They evaded public oversight and were utterly detached from widespread suffering and decline of this great nation. Reforms initiated by Roosevelt and others were labeled (largely through controlled media) as "communist, socialist" and worse. History rhymes.
 
All we need to know is that someone can lose all public face and go to jail over stealing a car or a handbag (rightly so), but many, many powerful people literally steal billions, if not trillions and how many of them are held to account? That says everything we need to know.

I cannot stand watching the sheep get excited over elections, with the balloons and placard waving and slogan chanting. The only thing democratic going on is that we get to pick which public face will front the policies of the super-rich. If you think things are anything other than that then all I can say (with some envy) is that ignorance is bliss.
 
All we need to know is that someone can lose all public face and go to jail over stealing a car or a handbag (rightly so), but many, many powerful people literally steal billions, if not trillions and how many of them are held to account? That says everything we need to know.

I cannot stand watching the sheep get excited over elections, with the balloons and placard waving and slogan chanting. The only thing democratic going on is that we get to pick which public face will front the policies of the super-rich. If you think things are anything other than that then all I can say (with some envy) is that ignorance is bliss.

I keep waiting for the general public to step back a frame and see election hoopla as the slight of hand it tends to be. But this has not happened yet.

The old saying that 'crime doesn't pay' is only partially correct. It doesn't pay on a small scale. On a large scale, it has always payed extremely well.

I once worked as a night watchman at an auto dealership with $40,000 and $50,000 automobiles sitting in the showroom all decked out in cheap helium balloons for sales promo. And this no doubt worked. People who sell big $$ cars know what sells.

Odd critters, humans.
 
All we need to know is that someone can lose all public face and go to jail over stealing a car or a handbag (rightly so), but many, many powerful people literally steal billions, if not trillions and how many of them are held to account? That says everything we need to know.

I cannot stand watching the sheep get excited over elections, with the balloons and placard waving and slogan chanting. The only thing democratic going on is that we get to pick which public face will front the policies of the super-rich. If you think things are anything other than that then all I can say (with some envy) is that ignorance is bliss.

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