Obama’s Shift toward Right « Junling’s Blog

I don’t find any real gratification for being correct about Obama and his real agenda (dictated by Big Money who own him like every other Democrat… and reTHUGlican). I have said it before and will say again, though, “I told you so.” I told you that it was a big charade… a play and Obama is the lead actor.

What pisses me off is that all of this is so obvious that it causes me to question many people I consider of high intellect (higher than mine). How can so many people be fooled again by these kabuki theatrics? How can so many brilliant people fall for the same shit over and over again?

At least Junling sees truth and wrote about it…

Obama’s Shift toward Right

December 18, 2008

Two disturbing events happened today. One is Obama’s meeting with military generals on Iraq withdrawal. The generals ignored Obama’s call for early withdrawal during his election campaign, instead presented a plan of much slower withdrawal until 2011. At the meeting, there was no objection or pushing on Obama’s side. The second development is that Obama invited an evangelical (or fundamental) Christian pastor to deliver invocation at his inauguration. It turns this pastor, Rick Warren, is a strong opponent against gay rights and abortion rights. Such ideological views are driving edge between people who are moderate and people who are fervently religious.

Instead of being the agent of change, Obama changed himself. He adapted himself quickly to the Washington politics, and we are watching another dream slip away from our eyes. But this should not be a surprise. Given democrats’ behavior after they took over congress, and how they yield to Bush and never try to stop Iraq war, we know what Obama’s administration will be like. He is just another democrat, no more and no less. The power of corporate influence on democrats is so clear and so disturbing.

Ralph Nader has observed that, Obama’s voting record in the Senate demonstrated “lack of political fortitude”. Shortly after Nader’s comment, Obama voted to give Telecommunication industry immunity for helping government spying on citizens (Ironically,  Hillary voted against it). It’s a big disappointment for people who want to preserve civil liberty in this country. But the general election is between McCain and Obama, and Obama is certainly a less evil between these two. Thus we kept our hope alive and gave him a pass in the election.

Obama is a big supporter of the Wall street bailout plan, which costs taxpayers $700 billion dollars. The fact that democrats push for this bailout suggests the big influence on Wall street on the democrats. Obama is one of them. In his book The Audacity of Hope, he mentioned about fund raising with big donors in New York City. He realized that how these donors started to have much more influence on a candidate as they generate quick cash for him. He talked about how you have to return phone call from these people because you don’t want to risk losing their future donation.

Obama may think he is in the center, by bridging two sides. But he reached too far into the other side that he slipped into them. By embracing a person of fundamentalist view and giving him prominent role on nation’s stage, he shut out progressive voices. In a battle of ideology, you are either for something or against it. You are either for segregation or against segregation. You are either moving forward or backward. Obama may think himself a great compromiser. But he has compromised the fundamental princinple or our hope for real change.

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