It's Official: No, Obama Can't, And He Never Wanted To Anyway

The articles:

1. Tom Sullivan: President Obama Loses His Base: He Just Ran Out of Slack
2. Glenn Greenwald: White House as helpless victim on healthcare and The underlying divisions in the healthcare debate
3. Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout
4. David Sirota: The "Candidate vs. President" Canard

And now it's official at last:

1. Barack Obama is not a progressive.
2. Barack Obama is a bought and paid-for conservative Clintonite corporate shill who is selling out American democracy to corporatist dictatorship.
3. Barack Obama has officially jumped the shark.

Progressives, you've been had. Big time. That "change agent" you (and, shamefully, I too) elected? Not to be seen. He suckered the American people for everything. The ex-community organizer just proved himself to be one of the worst of the neoconservative Blue Dogs. For all we know, he planned the total abortion ban in the corporate welfare health care "reform" (sic!) bill. Turns out the libertarians were right after all.

It turns out that we're getting what Obama (and Rahm Emanuel, leader of the Blue Dogs and our new Dick Cheney) wanted in the first place: pure corporate welfare that puts Shrub Bush himself to shame. Basically, they and their corporate-owned Congress are enslaving us to the health care monopoly cartel. What they are doing is repealing both democracy and capitalism, and replacing them with corporatism.

What is corporatism? The control of government by corporations. In other words, corporate dictatorship.

Now we know who owns Obama, and who he wants to sell America to. He's the property of Goldman Sachs, PhRMA, the war profiteering industry, and who the hell knows what other corporatist factions he wants to sell out the American people to. He's not a man of the people; he only acts the part, and he's one hell of a good actor. But he was totally and completely bought and paid for by the time he started running for president. Every single promise he's ever made to us has been a lie. He hasn't even bothered to stop the Iraq war, and he's about to strengthen USA PATRIOT (a.k.a. the Repeal of Freedom Act) too. He turned out to be just another predatory corporate lawyer in political office, just like all the others. He's no better than Billy Clinton.

Sure enough, the health care cartel's stock prices are soaring at the great news. So guess what, Operation Permanent Republican Administration? You've already won! Obama's proved himself your great black hope!

So now my opinion on health care "reform" is official: I'm with Howard Dean. I'm against this Republican corporatist wet dream masquerading as a Democratic reform bill.

Progressives: It's finally time to make Obama a lame duck. The president is nothing like the candidate was, except for the pretty way he can deliver the spin. The candidate was the illusion; the compromise-worshipping corporatist is the reality. We need to take back the power that the Republicrats are stealing from us and selling to the highest bidder. And remember:

No, he can't. He never wanted to, anyway. Only we can.

So how do we do it? I've got some ideas, and I'll be sharing them soon.

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