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host · 06-14-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by pan6467

BINGO.... B I N G O and BINGO was his dog O.

And when it does happen, or OPEC decides to finally pull the plug on the US Dollar and go to he Euro for oil...... where will Obama be? Where will his supporters be?

America the beautiful will as a majority turn him into a very hated president.

Gee, that really helps all of us, a black president in office during a great downfall..... that will help race relations won't it.

Hmmmm..... Maybe the powers that be in the Dem party are sacrificing Carter..... I mean Obama...

But shhhhhh don't tell anyone to believe that would be racist.

I do wonder, who the Obama puppet masters are.

That's an easy one, pan....Obama is a defender of the status quo...the top fraction of one percent in this country who hold controlling interests in wealth, and it follows...also in corporate (and in the corporate media...Russert is eulogized as an aggressive, "probing journalist", a year after Cheney's former press secretary testified under oath, that Cheney considered questioning on teevee by Russert, to be Cheney's "best venue"....) and political power, and thus, controlling interest in Obama !

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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/sirota
Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
By David Sirota

This article appeared in the June 26, 2006 edition of The Nation.
June 8, 2006

It's not every day that God calls your cell phone. But that's exactly what happened to me on an overcast afternoon last November. "Is this David?" asked the deep, vaguely familiar voice on the other end. When I told him it was, he said, "This is Barack Obama." Thinking it was a good friend playing a joke, I said I didn't believe him. But no, the voice insisted with a laugh, it was Illinois Senator Barack Obama, otherwise known in cult-of-personality political circles as a deity, a rising Democratic star or, as George W. Bush recently called him, "the pope."

Obama was calling because he was bothered that I had written a few blog posts questioning positions he'd taken that appeared to belie his progressive image, most prominently his vote for a corporate-written "reform" of class-action lawsuits, his refusal to frontally challenge the Iraq War after running as an antiwar candidate and his vote to confirm Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. One by one, Obama methodically answered each criticism. And when the call ended with his telling me he was committed to working with progressives, I was perplexed. Obama certainly talks a great game--but then, so have many false prophets over the years. I requested a formal interview, and to my surprise, Obama readily agreed. By the end of a day in Washington with him, I had the answers to two key questions: What can progressives expect from Barack Obama, and what does he really aspire to be?....

....Obama carefully answered the question about how he wants to define himself: "The amount of publicity I have received...means that I've got to be more sensitive in some ways to not step on my colleagues." For those who see him as a bold challenger of the system, this may be disappointing. After all, it oozes deference to the Senate clubbiness that has killed many a populist cause. And Obama has defended that club from outside pressure not only in his rhetoric but in his actions. For instance, last year he posted a long article on the blog Daily Kos criticizing attacks against lawmakers who voted for right-wing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts--even though Obama himself voted against Roberts. And in January Obama publicly criticized a fledgling effort to filibuster nominee Samuel Alito. Obama actually voted for the filibuster, but his statements helped take the steam out of that effort....