The 44th president of the United States was elected by an overwhelming majority of the popular vote on November 2, 2008. The American people turned out in record numbers to affirm his proposals for extending health care to all Americans, consumer protection, maintaining a woman's right to choose, and an end to illegal war, torture, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Yet despite an aggressive legislative agenda, his poll numbers have fallen precipitously. We must ask why America has turned its back on the man they once believed to be the quasi-black friend of Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers who attended a Muslim elementary school while being raised by an agnostic mother who traveled the world so frequently, she lost her son's original birth certificate.
Americans faced with dire economic crisis thought they were electing a radical with a near socialist message of great change. In the opinion of this blogger, Americans are deserting Barack Hussein Obama II because he has unwittingly revealed his actual identity: Barry O'Bama, pro-big business fundamental-religion conservative.
Will Smith-like good looks might lead us to believe that he is black . He also claims to have a Kenyan born, Harvard educated father. However, my exhaustive readings of his Wikipedia biography have revealed that he was secretly raised from the age of 10 by his Baptist/Methodist grandparents from Kansas. As part of his grooming in preppiness, he was taken to Sunday school at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu. Additionally, he attended Punahou School, a private college preparatory school, from the fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979. He affirmed his preppy credentials with the traditional rights of passage including varsity athletics and indulgence in alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. As a final flourish, he completed his preppy trajectory as president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama is a Secret Follower of Fundamental Religion
When the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to O'Bama, many thought that is was at least in part for his conciliatory rhetoric toward the Muslim world. Those words belied his secret fundamentalist beliefs, not in Muhammadanism or Evangelical Christianity, but in a much more fundamental religion, the religion of the Old Testament, that is Judaism. Many of his top advisers, including Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Peter Peter Richard Orszag, Timmy Geithner and Larry Summers are proponents of this faith. He failed to sanction Israel's actions against the Turkish civilian flotilla. And he has celebrated the Passover feast annually since he began the tradition as a candidate for the democratic nomination.
O'Bama's Secret Team of Pro-Business Advisers
Despite O'Bama's window dressing with crowd pleasers like economist and World Justice Project Honorary Co-Chair Paul Volcker and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, at the heart of the president's economic team are two Wall Street insiders: Timmy Geithner and Larry Summers. Treasury Secretary Geithner's credentials for the O'Bama economic team include arranging the rescue and sale of Bear Stearns and assisting Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, in bailing out AIG. $4.3 billion bounced back to Goldman Sachs and right into foreign banks, where it is earning a tidy interest for big business and wealthy investors. No strings were attached in the bail-out to anything so socialistic as job creation or saving American middle class homes from going underwater or foreclosure.
Anybody who hoped Michelle O'Bama was like Oprah Winfrey and that Barry's administration would be strongly feminist must have been confounded by the appointment of Larry Summers as Director of the White House National Economic Council. Contentious Summers earned the enmity of the Harvard faculty with his controversial remarks regarding female lack of talent for math and science. He has also fought with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker who accused Summers of delaying the effort to organize a panel of outside economic advisers. Summers left the popular Volcker out of White House meetings, although this might have been less for personal and more for policy reasons. Volcker
supports the breakup of the too big to fail banks and opposes letting deposit-taking institutions take risks like proprietary trading, private equity, and hedge fund investment.
O'Bama's Secret Anti-Progressive Advisers
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs angered the left when he called for drug testing of liberal critics of O'Bama. But his anti-progressive comments pale in comparison to those of outspoken anti-progressive Rahm Emanuel. To him, liberals are "fucking retarded," In his new book Overhaul, "Car czar" Steven Rattner quoted Emanuel as saying "Fuck the UAW" in the midst of the auto bailouts. Unions like the United Auto Workers of course support keeping good jobs in America, but that would constitute a progressive agenda.
Another O'Bama appointee to show utter (and udder) disregard for the concerns of American workers is Alan Simpson, Republican co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Simpson strongly supports reneging on the federal government's promise to pay full benefits to the those who foolishly contributed to social security all their lives as the price for having a job. He doesn't feel that the government should enable their delusion that Social Security was a form of saving for retirement.
O'Bama's Secret Pro-Business Agenda
Perhaps the strongest evidence of the pro-business bias of the Obama administration would be to examine outcomes. A Wiki-Wiki leak from the highly clandestine St. Louis Federal Reserve revealed that corporate profits hit $1.37 trillion in the first quarter. While we are awaiting independent confirmation from more reputable sources like the US Chamber of Commerce, it can be said that if it proves to true, it would represent a record high. If so, it must be difficult for businesses to hide their $2 trillion in cash reserves, as their spending sky-rocketed 20 percent last quarter. This is a jump of 13 percent against 2009. Perhaps they were responding to the super-secret Obama cut taxes for businesses.
Obama Secretly Opposes Gay and Lesbian Rights
One would think that a globe stomping, mixed-race person would be sensitive to civil right issues. But when it comes to gay and lesbian rights. O'Bama shows his true conservative side. Candidate Obama promised to end the senseless separation from service of our decorated gays and lesbians. But under President O'Bama, they continue to fight for their right to serve an apparently less than grateful nation. Obama makes not secret of his personal opposition to gay and lesbian marriage. He said "I do believe that (Christian) tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman." However, he did say he would support civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, as well as letting individual states determine if marriage between gay and lesbian couples should be legalized.
Barry O'Bama's Conservative Legacy
Despite the protests of left leaning groups like Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base remains open. It still holds 180 enemy combatants.
50,000 American troops remain in Iraq. including 4,500 special operations forces, who continue engagement in military operations. The combat troops who withdrew will be replaced by a thousands of private military contractors, doubling their numbers in the months to come. According to Counterpunch "Last month, the Congressional Research Service reported that the Department of Defense (DoD) workforce has 19% more contractors (207,600) than uniformed personnel (175,000) in Iraq and Afghanistan, making the wars in these two countries the most outsourced and privatized in U.S. history." The average combat pay in for our troops in Iraq is $7.50 a day. The great thing about private contractors replacing the military is that while less accountable for their actions, they are dramatically more expensive, earning as much as $700 per day while providing a nice profit for business.
All of which squares nicely with Barry O'Bama's secret conservative pro-business agenda.
The Right is Wrong is a satirical blog, but the facts and figures and dates are factual.
Sources for the facts include:
Washington Post, Ezra Klein, Sunday, August 8, 2010
Wikipedia
counterpunch.org/quigley
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