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Obama as Con-Man? (4.00 / 7)

Invoking John Rawls to explain the pandering behavior of Obama is quite a a bit of a stretch, in my view.

I like the con-man metaphor that Jacob Freeze uses above much better because it gets right to the point.

Obama duped people into voting for him with his phony "Change You Can Believe In" rhetoric.

But once he got into the White House, not only has he failed to change anything much at all, but he is actually aiding and abetting those fighting change.

Putting Geithner and Summers in charge of the financial mess says it all. Letting Democratic lawmakers and their campaign financiers from the private insurance industry cheat the American people out of a single payer health care system is a sacrilege.

Obama is worse than a duplicitous politician. He is a Trojan horse in the White House who is siding with the most egregious predators in Congress and the financial sector whose goal is to make sure that no change occurs.

No amount of theorizing about what drives Obama can explain or excuse his failure to protect the American people from those who have put them and the entire country at the brink of disaster.

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by: Nancy Bordier @ Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 21:59:44 PM CDT

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That's a very well-written comment! (4.00 / 2)

"... a Trojan horse in the White House who is siding with the most egregious predators in Congress..."

That's really a step up from my "con-man" characterization!

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by: Jacob Freeze @ Sat Jun 13, 2009 at 22:19:20 PM CDT

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Glen Ford used the title "Trojan Horse" for Obama (4.00 / 2)

when I had him on my radio show in February 2008.  He said Obama was a brilliant man, but not a good man.  And then said that he was a Trojan Horse.  Having read his very conservative views in his book coupled with his disdain for the movements of the 1960s and the great programs that came out of that, I totally agreed with Glen.  

Glen is the executive editor of blackagendareport.com and the people there have been following Obama forever.

I'm going to have Glen on again this Saturday at 2PM Mountain Time live streaming at kmmsam.com.

For more real lefty ideas listen to Dave Marsh every Sunday at 2PM Eastern on Sirius Left.  He has the great Kevin Alexander Gray on each week.  His review of "Audacity of Hope" was devastating.

Bill Maher said a few years ago "We elect liars".  Yes, and Jacob Freeze is right, we elect con men.  So we need to really understand what the con is ahead of time. And people need to try and find some time in this brutish sharecropper existence to rediscover civic action.

I will buy your book because I am out of ideas about how to get rid of the con men.  I'm mean look at who I worked my ass off for, Jon Tester????

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by: FeralCat @ Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 12:25:56 PM CDT

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The book is free online (4.00 / 1)

Hello FeralCat,

Thanks for your comments, insights and references above.

My book, Re-Inventing Democracy, is free.

You can read it online at www.reinventingdemocracy.us

Would be happy to have your feedback.

Nancy

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by: Nancy Bordier @ Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 13:27:46 PM CDT

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Wow, I've just read a few pages and I'm hooked. (0.00 / 0)

I'm posting this on my website.    

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by: FeralCat @ Sun Jun 14, 2009 at 18:27:35 PM CDT

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