Barack Obama, the ultimate bait-and-switch
Since Barack Obama has taken office, it is becoming increasing clear that he is not the savior the American people thought they were voting for. For all his talk of change, and all his progressive posturing, it's business as usual in Washington.
From the start, Obama was a sort of blank image, an empty shell created by public relations firms and media outlets. He garnered incredible support from the majority of the American people using words like hope, change and unity. Obama never had any real stances on issues or polices. To quote MIT linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky "Obama’s handlers, the campaign managers, have created an image that is essentially a blank slate. In the Obama campaign the words are hope, change, unity – totally vacuous slogans said by a nice person, who looks good and talks nicely – what commentators call 'soaring rhetoric' – and you can write anything you like on that blank slate.”
Instead of a man, the American people get “Brand Obama”, something that is a pure media construction. Obama isn't the first President like this. Ronald Reagan and JFK were both created my the media. Chomsky states that Reagan “probably didn't even know what the policies (in Washington) were, but he was a creation of the media.” Even though Reagan was in the White House, he was always just an actor, portraying a cowboy who would save the American people.
Kennedy was pure Hollywood with his movie star looks and the glamor of Camelot. Kennedy talked about the New Frontier and “what you can do for your country.” But this was the President that launched the invasion of South Vietnam and set into motion the para-military and economic repression of South America.
So what have have the American people really gotten with Obama in office. Chomsky says: “With the rhetorical flourishes stripped away, Obama presents himself as more or less as a familiar centrist Democrat, roughly on the Clinton model. His early appointments and advisers conform to that judgment.” It's clear Obama is not really progressive. He chose Joe Biden for Vice President and Biden was one of the strongest supporters of invading Iraq in the Senate. The choice of Biden shows the utmost contempt for the people that actually believed in Brand Obama.
Obama pays a lot of lip service to improving the economy, but he chose to run with Robert Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury and Larry Summers as Director of the National Economic Council. Both men are veterans of the Clinton Administration and helped engineer the financial crisis America faces now.Robert Rubin spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs before his government appointment and positively reeks “conflict of interest.”
When we cut to the chase, we can see that Obama is a cruel hoax. He works for Wall Street and is an agent of finance capital. Every single appointment Obama has made support the status quo. Every single one is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderburger Group.
There are legitimate reasons the people voted for Obama: to express their rage and discontent against the GOP and the neocons. People felt that George W. Bush was selling them down the river by creating endless war in the Middle East. The public had become alienated. The polls said that 80% of the population believed the country was run by a few big financial interests. Obama promised change, and as outrageous as that may seem coming from a man groomed and handled by Wall Street, the American people had become desperate and willing to grasp at straws, at the faintest glimmer of hope. The Obama phenomenon and American terror and desperation go hand in hand.
Rapper and Activist KRS-1 summed it up nicely in the documentary Obama Deception by saying: “They just put a black face on the New World Order.”
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