Obama In 20011

   

Of course I write after the apparent death of bin Laden in his bedroom.

Is the killing of bin Laden progressive? It seems like a gangsterism, fighting over Saudi, and Pakistani sovereignty and crude. No nation is supposed to have sovereignty in the new world order, (except perhaps Great Britain, China and Germany). The new world order is what the right tends to call it and while that may not be the most scientific formulation they are obviously responding to a real loss of national sovereignty.

More informative is the way Obama has played the Emperor by concentrating more and more executive power in his hands, much like the Bush family did. The obvious correlates of this are his imperialist wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Palestine, etc. Add to this the imperialist interventions meant to crush the Arab spring in Libya, Syria and now in machinations in those nations where the U.S. lost control like Egypt and Tunisia. Of course the U.S. and Obama continue to back the terrorism of Bahrain, the emirates and the Saudis.

The Emperor Obama reserves the right to murder U.S. Citizens by secret order. It doesn't get any more Orwellian, Kafkaesque or reactionary than that. Obama is Mr. Judge, Jury and Executioner, especially now that he can run covert operations with a joystick in the comfort of the White House.

That is fascistic and not progressive. Obama the fascistic emperor.

Of course certain issues give him a veneer of being progressive. He doesn't want to burn gays at the stake and has helped piecemeal advances for gays in the military.

Of course Obama has done nothing to suggest a socialist or anarchist alternative and all his efforts seem to be in the direction of continuing the same system but now all debt and all investment will be guaranteed by the working class. They will pay the debts of the super rich and in some cases, like nuclear power, will also provide the capital and there will be no compensation for nuclear disasters, except perhaps for the investors.

Obama loves all this stuff so you have to call him a reactionary overall will some progressive social characteristics that really don't change the overall toxicity of his politics.

   

OBAMA ELOQUENTLY TIES THE BP NOOSE AROUND HIS POLITICAL NECK

     I am shocked that Obama seems entirely clueless as to what is going on in the Gulf and the real world.  He doesn't have to be a hysteric and it is clear that he has consciously avoided projecting an angry image.  Obama rightly fears that he would be more vulnerable to racist attacks from the cracker majority if he was openly angry.  Yet his utter tranquility seems almost totally disconnected from this unprecedented catastrophe caused by Big Oil.
Obama finally tells us, six weeks into a catastrophe that is arguably worse than 9-11, that this is his top priority.  It seems to me that Obama has been asleep at the wheel, hoping this thing would go away.  He was forced to have a press conference and stop hiding!
     Nor has Obama criticized his own "drill baby drill" comments made shortly before the catastrophe.  Indeed he denies making such statements later in this brief public relations ploy, cast as a "news conference".  Obama sees no crime against nature or humanity, only a bill to be purportedly paid by BP.  Yet even his comments leave open the question as to what BP will actually be held responsible for this.  Two way Obama, "maybe you could believe this"  "maybe you could believe that".
     Yet it seems to me that it was and is Obama who supports the policy of offshore drilling and no barrier island is going to do anything significant if any one of the thousands of Gulf oil wells
starts spewing oil as we see today.  Obama has been obsessing about saving his Wall Street buddies, keeping Israel happy and
desperately trying to maintain American power in a world of nations that are no longer dominated by the United States the way they used to be.  Of course the United States is orchestrating a war or something close to it on North Korea  but that must be sixth or seventh on his list?
 Obama has made the invasion of Afghanistan "Obama's War" and been preparing a great slaughter for Kandahar.  Obama has lots of top priorities, but it is impossible to believe that stopping big oil from running the world is one of them.  Obama is run by big oil.
    Helen Thomas challenged his BS war in Afghanistan and his answer, is as usual, something of a filibuster.  Thomas asked him not to respond in Bushisms, but he does!  He cannot and does not talk about when the United States will get out of Afghanistan but refers to his faith in  McGeneral McChrystal running the current sequence of massacres.

The fact is that the destruction of the Gulf seems to him, a matter of "business as usual".  He hopes for a post facto technical fix, he is a technocrat.  He alleges he  is upset and yet his response is laid back and relaxed.  Let's talk about bureaucratic mumbo jumbo and blame the government.   He is blaming MMS.  This man behaves like an oilman who wants to improve the oil drilling operations in the Gulf.
    Obama is unable to even pretend to care.  Bush did that act.  He got a damn bull horn and posed as a leader.  It struck a chord with the people however cynical it may have been but Obama seems to lack appropriate emotional connections to the public.
     We have been attacked by our own oil addiction and Obama talks about a few miles or less of booms.  Booms!  Then he gives a speech about getting some really "good stuff", as if the Gulf will not be dead...he ignores that completely.  Global warming isn't mentioned even though Obama claims to want alternative energy sources, "big nuclear?".
     I think Obama's low key, low profile response to this oil catastrophe suggests that he has agreed not to run for office in 2012 but to give Hillary a turn.  When it comes to the destruction of our natural world the Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same. 
     Now Obama, after saying he is on top of everything, that he doesn't know about the supposed resignation of a top MMS official.  Obama claimed to have cleaned up MMS but then says it really didn't work or something.  He talks about  changing the corporate culture of MMS.
   Obama asserts that he didn't  say "drill baby drill", but he did say things darn close to that phrase.  He is a liar and anyone who denies his pandering to the "drill baby drill" Republicans is a fraud and a liar or terribly ignorant at best.
   Obama tells us that he doesn't endorse the boycott of Arizona.  Like almost all elected officials he will never stand with the people because he is of the ruling class, another subservient wunderkind.  Bought and sold Obama is a good investment for them!
     This isolated press conference has now drifted to other issues Obama has left unaddressed.  For the "last question" one journalist gets in two questions.  "Is your boot on the neck of BP?" is the main question.  Obama is careful to point out that this term, "boot on the neck of BP" is just a metaphor and he passes the buck to Ken Salazar.  Ken said it, not me, Obama reassures big oil and other major investors in him.  Bought and sold Obama speaks.

OBAMA'S DRILL, DRILL, DRILL STRATEGY BEARS FRUIT

   No sooner had President Barrack "talks a lot" Obama declared that he too wanted to drill a lot more offshore oil wells than the BP disaster began.  The blow-out killed, murdered really eleven men and BP milked the hope they were alive as long as possible to distract from this unprecedented capitalism made ecological catastrophe.


   It was a blessing really, that Obama's reactionary and stupid energy policy blew up in his face.  On the other hand it seems that Haliburton did the actual last minute very dangerous and negligent things that made the oil well blow up.  Was the sequence of Haliburton executed actions merely crimnally negligent, just the result of BP, Haliburton and other profiteers in the Gulf trying to gulp down their big bucks so quickly that they started to choke on them?  Or did Dick Cheney tell his Buds in Haliburton to create an oil spill so that Obama would have a "New Orleans"-like political catastrophe?  Given  the negligence hours before the oil well blowout we have to wonder if the dangerous manuevers with the well were ordered by an evil sorcerer and real world conspirator, Dick Cheney.


  Obama is obviously trying to distance himself from his own pro oil comments and now says he wants to play the regulation game, if only the Republicans will let him.  I don't know if he really wants regulation or not but he sure was not proactive before the disaster in cleaning up any regulatory agency, as far as I know.  He is also pretending he has nothing to do with the oil spill, much as  Bush pretended that New Orleans was not a matter for federal concern until he was forced to do something by the popular uproar.


   Obama should not be able to distance himself from his own  words in this matter.  This is the policy he endorsed and he should be scrutinized and critisized for it.

HOW MANY WARS WILL OBAMA BE FOR TONIGHT?

Obama came to power on the backs of the progressive people of the United States and especially those against the wars in Iraq and Iran.  Yet we all know that Obama has started wars rather than ended them and even the pitiful nothing of shutting down one of many American torture centers was too much for this shameless panderer to the progressive struggles we all support, everyone but Obama that is.


So, NPR is promoting the opportunity for a war on Iran, a more open and destructive war.  Is that Obama's line?  We wait in terror as we wonder which nation will be destroyed next.

A YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE RICH AND POWERFUL, AN EXPANSION OF THE WARS ON ISLAMIC NATIONS

    Obama has done a pretty good job of suckering progressives into a temporary period of support.  His mumbo jumbo is more sophisticated than Bush's gibberish but his deeds are at least as reactionary as those of Bush and possibly will turn out to be much worse.


    Obama has pandered to the cause of justice in Palestine.  Yet his State Department is orchestrating the siege of Gaza in Egypt!  As I write, citizens of the world are being beaten down in the streets of Cairo by Mubarak, the shield of Israel, and Viceroy of Anglo-American intrigue.  Why does Mubarak beat those seeking to break the siege of Gaza?, Why does he beat down his countrymen?  To rule on behalf of the United States, Great Britain and international capitalist interests, to keep his
reactionary military regime in power and to work with Netanyahu on a "final solution" to the problem of the Palestinians in Gaza.

  His military dictatorship is a largely unexamined aspect of tyranny in the Middle East.  Obama is his boss.

   Of course Obama can't contain his eloquence when it comes to demanding democracy in Iran. Yet, like his supposed interest in the liberation of women, this is just a deception a tool of the empire.  If he cared about democracy he wouldn't be supporting  dictatorships in Afghanistan, Honduras, Egypt and Saudi.  Why doesn't he cry out for democacy in those lands?  It is just a sly manuever and his silly smile sort of reminds me of Bush's silly smile.  Both Presidents smile as if they sort of know they are just stuffed suits reading what is in front of them.  The only difference is that Bush was at the back of the class and Obama was at the front.

   As for Michele Obama she has no independence, no autonomy and is just watching after her man.  I guess it is good if you can get it but she is no Eleanor Roosevelt.  She is pretty much in the baking cookies mode as far as I can tell.  At least Mubarak's wife got a few folks into Gaza.  Michelle is thus far, useless to progressive causes of any kind.

  



   

OBAMA AND AXELROD HAVE CYNICALLY EXPLOITED PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTERS

  As Obama turns his back on the problem of Global Warming in Copenhagen it is almost impossible to continue wondering if this leader is progressive in any way other than in the hopes of his often progressive supporters.  

  Turning his back on all humanity and the future of our species was not enough for the well spoken closet reactionary from Hawaii.  His pseudoprogressive medical bill  consolidates the the alliance between big government and the industries who want to shake down the American people so they can profit by denying healthcare.  Now the government will criminalize those who don't pay their full share to the insurance, pharma, and hospital rackets.  


   Then Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan is an obvious sign that he is
just another imperialist war lord.  Enough said,  imperialist war lords are not
progressives!



   Of course Obama's complete sell out to finance capital and Wall Street is his and Congresses overarching crime against democracy, liberty and justice.  


    Obama also seems to be preparing the public for a more open war with Iran. He has done nothing for the Palestinians.


    In Latin America Obama has led an offensive against democracy and justice from Central America to South America.  His regime supported and/or led the coup in Hondurus and the subsequent regime.  He is laying the basis for a more open war on Venezuela and the continued enslavement of Colombia.



    Of course Obama is different than Bush in many cultural and social ways.  He is also a good reader of his script whereas Bush was the opposite.  But these pleasant and shiney differences are trivial compared to Obama's reactionary policies and his political philosophy which leaves truly progressive Democrats out in the cold.

   That is the role of the Democratic Party in the United States.  It is a dead end road for progressive hopes, decade after decade.  When will we learn?  Obama is, in substance, little different than Clinton, maybe worse.

THE AUDACITY OF HIS MAJESTY, EMPEROR OBAMA

Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan underlines in double red lines his fundamentally reactionary politics.  While pandering to progressive social issues he has behaved as an imperialist leader rather than a stealth progressive.


Obama's face needs to be crossed out and his name removed from the list of potentially progressive Democrats.  His fate is to be that of President Johnson but with any luck his reactionary health care denial scam will also be defeated.

Obama is not progressive and those who follow him are following a reactionary man who has the audacity to prosecute imperialist wars and the hope that he will not lose the support of freedom loving progressives for it.

Of course those who advocate liberation and liberty can hardly rely on the eloquent confusion of Obama's statements.  Nor has his complete refusal to see Afghanistan debated and to simply act like a King been a cause for anything but disgust, rejection and rebellion.


The Imperial Decree of Obama has gone forth to his Generals who, of course, debated it among themselves.  The sovereign American people were completely left out and are hence, obviously not sovereign at all.

 I think, progressives should support political struggle for the sovereignty of the American people here in the United States.

  Congress, the White House and Supreme Court are all in the pockets of those with deep pockets, here at home and abroad. Virtually every elected or appointed official is bought-and-sold.  At the end of the day Obama is just another capitalist politician, a bought and sold politician running a destructive capitalist juggernaut as best he can.



Meanwhile, refusing to renounce the Monroe Doctrine, Obama positions military and intelligence forces for the reconquest of Latin
America with Honduras and Colombia being the two new beneficiaries of Yankee bases and military build ups.


People throughout the world see thorough his pseudoprogressive hypocrisy.  I hope we can do the same thing here in the United States and build a progressive movement that the Democrats can never betray!