You can talk all you want to about his two charming children, the new dog, his obvious charisma and smooth, likeable personality, his unique status as the first black President, his crowd-drawing appeal and high poll numbers, and his sometimes progressive-oriented rhetoric.
But the fact is, Obama has been in charge of things now for 60 days, and the same damn corrupt policies that we didn't like under Bush & Cheney, are not only still going on and on, but they are being actively promoted by Obama, and his hand-picked inner circle of administration cronies -- who do not at all, 'look like America', or 'main street' here, but instead just look like the same type of Wall-Street/Banking/Corportists we thought that we had put out of power in 2008.
- We've been in Afghanistan for 7 years now, with no friggin end in sight, and no exit strategy.
- We've been in Iraq for 6+ years now, with no end for 2 more whole years.
- We are still wasting Tens of Billions of dollars of Taxpayer money each and every month, with no end in sight.
Ever wonder why we are bankrupt?
Where is the outrage? (and where is the anti-War movement when you need 'em?)
Where is the fundamental change in policy here?
- The same Hank Paulson-esque financial corruption and financial rape is going on.
- The same Rumsfeldian mass-murder, Iraq Oil piracy, and War Crimes are going on and on.
- The same government privilege, unaccountability, and secrecy is going on. Obama's CIA pick Leon Panetta has even already guaranteed there will be no prosecution for Torturers. Clearly this administration has a different concept of morality than the one that signed the Geneva Conventions in the 1940s, and prosecuted the Nuremberg Trials.
- The same failed idea that we can Bomb, Slaughter, and Occupy Middle-East Countries, and that will all somehow "fix terorrism" (when in truth it will only make it much worse, and bankrupt our own Country) is all going on and on.
- On top of that, Obama completely shut out the voices for single-payer Health Care Reform, and crippled the genuine reform movement.
Is any of this "progressive"? Enough already! Come on folks, Obama deserved a grade F, when he decided to let Neocon Robert Gates just continue these corrupt multiple Bush-Cheney Wars and Occupations unabated, and continue the horrible civilian bombings, on and on endlessly. Recall Obama himself once said "there is no military solution", yet he is one now who is escalating these immoral Military operations, and attaching himself now to these failed, fruadulent, and self-bankrupting exercises in pointless mass-violence. He deserved a grade F when he decided to stick a Central Bank cartel crook, Tim Geithner, in charge of the public U.S. Treasury, and have Geithner and Summers just continue the corrupt Hank Paulson "Bailout to Banking Fat Cat" policies at public expense unabated.
We're talking about $$$ Trillions of dollars of wasted money here (some might even argue stolen money). Sorry folks, there is nothing here to celebrate. Except possibly stem-cell research. Okay, one honest, good thing..whoopie.
Yet the coffins are still coming home, the public lies continue on and one, and the Banking Elites and Wall Street are still stealing your money each and every day, as the wealth of the Country is systematically concentrated into the hands of the top 1%.
The public U.S. Treasury should never be run by Wall Streeters or Central Bank Managers/affiliates/Oligarchs. It should only be run by people totally independent of any ties to these corrupt, self-interested, Elitist, robber barons, and by people who will operate, not in secrecy, but only with full transparency in the public interest.
Obama's appointees aren't much different here than Bush's appointees. We have no government watchdogs or reformers/truthtellers in there. We just have more Wall Streeters, more Banking Oligarchs, and more Corporatists. The result has been the continuation, not the rejection, of Paulson's "No Banking Crook Left Behind" policies, at the demise of the public expense, and at our cost.
It's not just Welfare for the rich. It's Welfare for fraudsters and criminals. And it is runaway Debt, financial insolvency, and the destruction of the U.S. Dollar for everyone else, leaving the economy in ruins.
The whole policy must stop, not just simply the "bonuses" to CEOs. The whole concept that we can just borrow and leverage our way to prosperity with more debt is in serious error here. Obama doesn't get it. That's what created the economic problems.
We need to balance our budgets, and create real capital again -- not pile up more and more loans and more and more debt. We need to stop all the overseas spending, stop all the Bailouts to these financial crooks across the board. We need to close the Foreign military bases, stop the bankrupt and suicidal Wars/Occupations/profiteering, and stop leaving our whole economy beholden to borrowing money from China. Recently, Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton had to go to China and beg them to continue to buy up our U.S. bonds (debt), that we can never repay. Like all Empires before us, we are going bankrupt. That is the real National Security problem at stake here, not these phony Neocon lies about totally non-existent "mushroom clouds" coming from Iran or Iraq or anyone else.
We have lost our National Sovereignty. We are essentially an economic colony of China today. Think about that. If they pull the plug on investing in the U.S. Dollar based bonds, then we will have a total economic collapse and become a Bannana Republic. There will be mass poverty and mass starvation. There will no longer be a middle class at all.
This whole idea that these corrupt Banks and Wall Street investment firms "must not fail", and we must "save them" (with our own money?) is also misguided. We need to let the corrupt and failed corporations fail, and allow the successfully working corporations to move in and take their place.
Where there is a vacuum, a free market will fill the void with worthy startups and innovators.
It is these large, looting, corruptly-capitalized-by-the-public-funds, private Corporations that are not worthy of being saved, and they should be eliminated from the marketplace.
If private investors want to save them (at their own expense), then so be it.
But the public is not responsible here for saving these crooked Corporations. It is nothing more than a high theft and transfer of wealth from the Middle class to the crooked Elite 1%.
Obama needs to reject the Bailout policies and the War/Occupation policies before it is too late. He hasn't changed course from Bush and Paulson -- he's kept it going. Obama needs to stop drinking the Kool-Aide and fire Geithner and Summers, and get people of independence and true integrity to protect the U.S. Treasury and the public interest -- not more of these corrupt Federal Reserve/Wall Street shysters.
Obama's agenda has been both a grassroots betrayal, and the continuation of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Paulson lies and corruption on multiple fronts. We didn't like any of these policies under Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gates, Paulson, etc. before.
So why should we like them any more now under Obama?
Is this really the change we voted for?