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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is NOT a tool of the banks/MIC, a liar or a murderous warmonger [View all]RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)Thanks for enlightening me!
Now I understand why President Obama has behaved rather differently from Senator and candidate Obama.
It was all "Oh BULLSHIT."
Look, I knew when I voted for the man that he wasn't a commie who was going to redistribute all the wealth, like Joe the Plumber thought. I knew he was a Corporate Socialist (as opposed to a Corporate Fascist) and that he understood that "The Business of America is Business." I'm OK with that, not ecstatic, but I can accept that.
However, he's not even trying anymore to address the foundational problems that we are dealing with. It's the bankers, the oil companies, the MIC making policy and deciding what's what. Just like what got us into this mess in the first place. This is not what I voted for, and the president knows it.
So I ask... Why do YOU think he's behaving the way he's behaving?
Did he never really want us to "hold his feet to the fire" because it was all bullshit?
Are his real core beliefs such that he WANTS the 1 percent to control all the wealth on the planet and the rest of it was all bullshit? Is he really just Ronald Reagan in blackface?
Have his core beliefs changed due to something once he got into office?
I'm sure he knows a lot that we don't know, is there something that he's learned since being president that has transformed him into DroneMan?
Or... does he have a gun to his head?
I'm going with that one.
It's the explanation that I find the most palatable.
Your mileage may vary...