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Obama as Con-Man?

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