With each and every utterance of Cabinet announcements and policy decisions for the upcoming
president, I shudder to think how off base the Obama Followers are and how on the money I have been. This doesn’t surprise me since I believe I have studied the issues without the rose-colored glasses Obama hands out to all his desperate followers. Desperate in that they have fallen for the meme that he is The People’s candidate and will do Progressive things. Desperate to get rid of the neocon agenda that has ravaged our country (even though it began long before Bush took office and was contributed as well by the Uber President, Bill Clinton).
The entire scenario is like a really bad novel and since most Americans are illiterate, they simply look at the illustrations and forget the substance. But think about how we got to where we are today… how the evil McCain/Palin ticket, with its idiotic race baiting, its lies about the economy, its dominant muscle flexing of 100 year wars, etc.
Can you Obama Maniacs not see how this is a script where the evil Lord has been pitted against the “Savior”? How the storyline has fit to the most divisively Good vs Evil election we have seen in many, many years? Are you all so gullible to believe that Barack Obama is not “given” to us by the rich, ruling elite?
Let me tell you, there is no way on God’s green earth (or “my” green earth, whatever) that normal, thinking people would ever have elected the old freak and his idiot side-kick. There is but one reason it was as close as it was… the American people are too stupid to understand the performance being acted out right in front of their eyes.
What baffles me most is that these very followers are hearing the same information as I (Barack Obama received far more money from the ruling Elite than anyone else in the race… that he is “changing” the scope of politics by bringing back the same players that started alot of the mess we now live with… that he is hedging on commitments he said to get the Primary election… that he is a war monger, but uses pretty rhetoric instead of the strong-arming McCain the old fool used… to insist that Lieberman be kept in the position he can do the more harm in… etc… etc… etc.
In an article at World Prout Assembly called “Obama – Beware of elites bearing gifts“, Richard Moore lays out this obvious ownership of Obama by the ruling class and how they used this to bamboozle America.
Richard Moore
World Prout Assembly
Nov 20, 2008
11/20/08 – “WPA” – The McCain-Palin dragon has been slain. The Heroic Knight has been crowned and an era of profound hope has descended on the Kingdom. I know this is true because all my friends tell me so. There can be no doubt of the immense and genuine popularity of our new President-elect. Not even JFK inspired as much hope and devotion in his followers, nor was his following as universal.
So great is this enthusiasm for Obama here that I find I must hold my tongue in polite company, lest I upset someone by expressing my reservations. Nonetheless, there are several inconvenient truths that need to be said. First among these is the observation that Obama is not a populist. That is, he was not a candidate, like Ron Paul or Ralph Nader, whose race was a fight against the establishment. Obama had the full support of the establishment at every step of the way. Paul Street sums this up well enough:
But, as The New York Times’ editors certainly know, “they” still “put in who they want to put in” to no small extent. The predominantly white U.S. business and political establishment still makes sure that nobody who questions dominant domestic and imperial hierarchies and doctrines can make a serious (“viable”) run for higher office – the presidency, above all. It does this by denying adequate campaign funding (absolutely essential to success in an age of super-expensive, media-driven campaigns) and favorable media treatment (without which a successful campaign is unimaginable at the current stage of corporate media consolidation and power) to candidates who step beyond the narrow boundaries of elite opinion. Thanks to these critical electoral filters and to the legally mandated U.S. winner-take-all “two party” system [2], a candidate who even remotely questions corporate and imperial power is not permitted to make a strong bid for the presidency.
Barack Obama is no exception to the rule. Anyone who thinks he could have risen to power without prior and ongoing ruling class approval is living in a dream world.
– Paul Street, “Barack Obama as a Ruling Class Candidate”
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/19343
Obama was sold to us, not just as a President but as a savior. The McCain-Palin charade was an important part of the sales campaign: you can’t have an Heroic Knight unless there’s a Fearsome Dragon to be slain. A friend pointed out to me that McCain’s campaign was mostly negative attacks on Obama. Another way to frame that is to say that the campaign was all about Obama, rather than about issues. The negative attacks caused just as much bonding between Obama and his followers as did Obama’s inspiring speeches. The negative and the positive themes were played against one another, in the media, with all the precision of a symphony.
Phony media circuses are nothing new to Presidential campaigns. With Obama, we saw a new dimension added, with the help of the Internet. I speak of the volunteer phenomenon. I was surprised to learn how many of my friends and acquaintances were active as volunteers in the campaign. They organized themselves at the grassroots, and they got their commands from Campaign Central, via email. Not since the heyday of Est have I seen such wild-eyed enthusiasm among activist volunteers. Even before I saw news reports that Obama planned to make political use of his Internet activists from a new White House Internet office, I heard my friends saying that the ‘organization must go on’, that it ‘must not die with campaign’. They are eager to remain part of the bandwagon, to be troopers for Obama, and Obama is prepared to make use of them.
What we have is basically a personality cult. Obama true-believers are now bigger than the Fundamentalists, and equally mobilized. But what is it they are going to be mobilized for? The campaign rhetoric was to a large extent about ‘overcoming divisiveness’, and ‘bringing us all together’. Sounds good, but divisiveness is not among the major problems facing America. The problems facing us are economic and environmental collapse, the struggle to hold onto empire, and new emerging powers on the global scene. Divisiveness was, and remains, a created issue, a cult-formation device, a device for which McCain and Palin, and their over-the-top redneck rallies, were a critical ingredient.
The other main themes of the campaign were ‘change’ and ‘hope’. Interesting. Change we will get, of one kind or another, that’s for sure. And there are two kinds of hope, that which arises in times of positive change, and that which arises in times of despair. If you see light at the end of the tunnel, you feel hope; if the tunnel remains dark, you rely on hope. Which kind of hope will Obama deliver? His followers have been led to feel there is light at the end of the tunnel. I suggest they are destined for disappointment. Hope for positive change will morph into a reliance on ‘hope in Obama’…
Suffice it to say that the guy speaks for me by and large. Please read the rest of this excellent article here.
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