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.

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!


 

OBAMA'S WAR MOVES PRECEDED BY VACUOUS CHARM OFFENSIVE

    Obama has shown his colors which far outweigh his skin tone.  Yes, he is a red, white and blue, all-American war monger, just like Johnson, just like Clinton, just like the Bushes.

   Today he slipped in an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.


   First he went to China and all the brilliant
students interrogating him wondered why he was there.  Then he invited the leader of India to a State dinner.  Everyone laughed and wondered what was up to at the time. Then "pop goes the weasel" and it turns out Obama
and Bush are brothers in mass murder.



     Meanwhile the psuedoprogressive Obamacare bill, which simply consolidates the health care denial industry, will set back American health care despite more charming lies.  So I guess what Obama meant by "Yes we can!" was "Yes we can conquer Afghanistan!  Yes we can insure the rule of the rich in America by taxing the workers."


   Yet millions are already crying out, sometimes with poor understanding and ideological confusion, "No you can't, President
Obama!"  "No you musn't!"



     The new boss, same as the old boss, a tool of the billionaires and the blood sucking capitalist system, a war monger and a charming liar.

The Mystery Continues Obama Flies Like a Conservative, Stings like a Progressive?

     It seems to me that Obama is in many ways an improvement over Bush.  These improvements are relative, however, and do not represent a departure from unwavering support for the rule of private capital, albeit with massive support from the state.  That is to say that the system we have now is some sort of capitalist system where private capital retains the reins but the horse pulling the cart is fed and owned by the state and paid for, once again by the taxpayer.


    So the modern capitalist exploits the worker twice, once at the point of production by paying her less than the value of her labor and then again through taxes which is funneled by the government to the coffers of the finance capitalists, banks and insurance companies.


  Obama convinces this observers that he has a considerable competence which Bush seemed to lack.  His comments generally indicate a deeper degree of understanding than he may be articulating whereas Bush seemed to have difficulty putting his thoughts, however simple minded, into words.


     On certain social issues Obama has stood up for LGBT people in a way that other Presidents have not.  His Supreme Court nominee is most likely better than one McCain would have delivered. It seems that Obama has gone along with the liberation of women theme in his foreign policy in a way that may actually cramp some patriarchs somewhere.


    But the Clinton-Obama version of women's liberation is no substitute for proletarian feminism which would struggle for not only women's liberation but working class rule.


  Certainly he is an example of an extraordinary leader who is also an African-American.  I think his ascent as a person of color has shattered a lot of myths and cynical beliefs.  So many people in the United States and abroad are surprised that a person of color became the President of the United States.  That is the one area where Obama is  broadening the political vision and career possibilities people of all colors are willing to believe in and conceive of.


Of course he continues to frighten this observer with his close relationship to Israel and the Israeli lobby which seems to dominate his foreign policy team.  He has had no backbone with regard to Israel, immediately caving on his insistence that settlements halt further construction.  It was a somewhat trivial and modest position for him to take given that all the settlements are illegal but even this was too much for him to live up to.  Obama promised hope and delivers a lot of the same old dung.  It may be processed manure but it is still the same old colonial s~t in Palestine.


He seems to be menacing Iran and I wonder if he will attack Iran just the way a Republican or a Likud Party member would like to do as well. If so it will be impossible to defend him and call yourself progressive.



Obama's bailout of the capitalist financiers is troubling and appears to intensify the problems of concentration and bigness that so many policy wonks talk about.  Nothing has been done about it by Obama.


Health care reform may or may not look progressive later.  Obama and the Democrats will pass a bill and perhaps route the Republicans for some years but now it looks like the health plan is written primarily by those entrenched profiteers who make good health care less and less available to the American population.

Obama is better than Bush but his progressive credentials are still uncertain and he seems to have a lot of rightist exploitative policies.  We shall see who the real Obama is.  You can't rope a dope past the fifteenth round! 

OBAMA HAS SPOKEN OUT FOR GLBT RIGHTS IN A REMARKABLE WAY

     I think it is remarkable that President Obama has gone so far in speaking up on behalf of GLBT rights.  It is definitely a progressive feather in his cap.  Yet if he ends up serving monopoly capital he can only see a sort of social equality for folks that may be GLBT without achieving working class rule, ie. real democracy.

    He has been considerably more outspoken in this area than other bourgeois politicians in the United States.  I hope he can help shepard this nation away from the frenzied hatred of political prejudice and personal bigotry.  It's time that straight bigots get their act together and enjoy their own sexual orientation and gender without constantly and compulsively attacking others for being somewhat different.

Smiling Faces, Smiling Faces Sometimes they Don't Tell the Truth!

Obama is turning out to be an O'Bummer for progressives throughout the United States and the world. He is also making what look like huge political mistakes that almost certainly doom a second term.

For one thing, Obama has adopted the Bush Wars as his own children and now wants to win the wars he previously pretended to oppose. Like Bush he lies about withdrawal from Iraq when he and Bush mean "permanent occupation". Now Obama can be a stupid reactionary and tie a millstone around his own neck, or should I say the millstone of Iraq and the mountain of Afghanistan. Obama will conquer Afghanistan. Right! Even Bush wasn't that stupid!

In a similar fashion Obama speaks eloquently about corruption on Wall Street and then hands trillions of imaginary dollars over to the crooks. He seeks to restore the corrupt and utterly capitalistic way of doing things at your and my and our grandchildren's expense. This debt burden is something he is putting on the backs of the working classes. Bush, Obama what is the substantial difference? I don't think our grandchildren will put up with it and I don't think that their grandparents should silently allow this brutal financial coup to be consolidated.

What about universal health care? Obama got votes as he posed as someone who wants the best health care system Americans can get. Yet he has shut out "single payer" one hundred percent. He is all about big pharm, big hospital chains, big hmo's, big insurance and big medical business in all of its opulent excesses. Our health care is the last thing on his health care agenda! When the healthcare bubbles burst Obama will be one of the fools making it happen, quite eloquently he will note that he "screwed up" and yes we are the ones getting "screwed".

And the computerized medical charting is all about an Orwellian Medical database available to every insurance company, hmo and health care hustler with the gumption to pick your pocket. Thank you for the hope but what about delivering single payer, not a life time of rip offs as each and every one of us struggle to get the healthcare that is regarded as a right in the rest of the world. Only your family and the patient will have trouble getting your medical records now. Everyone else gets their own copy. Your life is a commodity to be bought and sold like pork bellies.

Of course you need only look out the window to see the Orwellian video cameras on every street corner. It's an Obamination unto the goddess of liberty and justice!

Obama's change is superficial change, a change in style, and a big lurch to the right after a deft feint to the left. Obama is technocratic, a public relations whiz, a Kennedyesque monster that seeks to conquer, murder and maim with a little more stealth and even more secrecy than Bush. Hence, the so-called counterinsurgency strategy he seeks to apply to Pakistan and Afghanistan and perhaps Latin America once again, if he can get away with it! Is Obama's change just a different kind of killing? With drone murdering hundreds at a strike he is outdoing Bush in that sort to killing. Maybe Obama meant more killings the same way when he was referring to "change". He was and is always vague about "change", big vocabulary though.

Even more than Bush he has the press corp on a leash! Every question is approved. Sounds like a press conference in a dictatorship. President Obama is President Big Brother?

Skin color does not a progressive make as anyone with any experience knows. And now President Obama refuses to release memos, and other documents he already promised to release while he attacks the ACLU. It's all about hiding American crimes just as with Bush. Is this Bush III or what?

Then, Obama tries to pass the buck about prosecuting Republican criminals and various conservative, torturing criminals to others like his appointees, as if someone else was the President.

Obama is a rightist! We can't count on Obama or the Democrats for anything but the same old conservative crap or an even worse financial dictatorship strangling our individual lives, families,communities, nation and world!

So when it comes to the next Supreme Court nominee we can bet that Obama will hem and haw and say this and that and then he will say the exact opposite of this and that. This may pass through several complete cycles as he dances around the issues while endeavoring to appear to be addressing them. At the end of the day he may be looking for a torturer or someone who authorized torture for the Supreme Court, just to prove he is soooo coool, sooo broad minded, sooo loyal to the elites and sooo liberal in one of the worst senses of the term "liberal".

There are, no doubt, klansmen and Republican party leaders who are willing and able to prove Obama is no racist by serving on the court as his nominee and Obama fighting for them in the Congress to quash any progressive opposition. Too bad, Obama probably can't find any old Nazi's to serve on the court but Naziphile, Arnold Schwarzenneger's dad was "just a policeman" during the Third Reich (yeah an SS policeman!) Maybe Arnold can be Obama's kind of Supreme Court Justice?

So am I being too hard on Mr. Obama or not hard enough?

Let's see, if Obama nominates a progressive and then withdraws or sabotages the nomination of that progressive? President Progressive Poser, that would fit!

"Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes they don't tell the truth!" Mr. Obama, shame on your smiling lies about being for the average citizen, for children, for the workers, for women and for the eocnomically and racially oppressed. Or did you ever even say those things? Were we just wishing and hoping that you were progressive even though you said again and again things that make you sound like a pseudoliberal who fears any struggle against any real world conservatives.

Mr. Obama looks more and more like a technocratic deracialized whiz kid of the ruling class. Obama dances a good dance but any fool can see whom he is dancing for, whatever their vocabulary!

Mr Obama, you are dancing for the past, for the rich and for the financial elites. You are dancing for the capitalist empire capitalisms would be conquests. You are yet another emperor serving the empire of greed and total capitalist domination. You should be known as President Wallstreet not President Obama!

Too bad, too, you seemed like such a "nice guy"!

Posted by PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION at 4:04 AM