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.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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 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.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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 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!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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!
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!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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.
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.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
