The article: Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace - Yahoo! News
So the latest chickenhawk warlord who rules the world, who might as well be called George Bush III because he loves loves LOVES war so much, the neocon in liberal's clothing called Barack Hussein Obama, accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in order to defend the negation of peace. He pays lip service to the peacemakers, then defends his true calling, All-Conquering Khan of the World, his true title. Apparently God's got him on Shrub Bush's hotline! "Some will kill; some will be killed." But what's important is that the killing must must MUST continue, at all costs! For the infinite glory and profit of America's corporate welfare kings!
Barack Hussein Obama, the smooth-talking Chicago conman who convinced us that he's a liberal but is really the second coming of Emperor Shrub, has now definitively jumped the shark. If you remember the 2008 US presidential election, Obama was elected by an antiwar majority. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were going badly and bankrupting the country. But not only did the new president continue Bush's bailout of his big banker friends, he escalated both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and is waiting like Bush for the perfect excuse to invade Iran in order to save damsel in distress Israel. He ended up being more of the same, only with the silver tongue of the Devil and a convincing liberal façade. The neocon warhawks are having multiple orgasms over their former seeming enemy's total conversion to the cause of empire.
Here's the truth. Forget the ludicrous claims that Obama is a noncitizen; birtherism, like creationism, is a cult. The problem is that the liberal savior we hailed just one year before has turned out to be little more than a kinder, gentler Shrub Bush. Unlike Bush, he can sweet talk not just his supporters but his enemies, at home and abroad. That's what he means by "diplomacy." But what he really stands for is the same old world empire of corporatism. He's not only escalating the Afghan war to the point of destabilizing Pakistan and turning it into (blowback alert!) a potentially deadly enemy (with nuclear bombs, no less), but he's also increasing the presence of the hated mercenary corporations such as the infamous Blackwater. The pied piper, provoking the "injuns" into savage fury, is leading the American people to the slaughter.
Plus, he's flubbing health care reform, which is also turning out to be the same old corporate welfare as Bush's health care reform. No wonder his popularity's falling through the floor!
Some hope. Some change. Obama, like John Kerry in 2004, has turned out to be an echo, not a choice. Just like any other politician who wants power in the corporatist dictatorship that is the American Empire.
As long as the empire exists, America will never be democratic. But remember that the empire, the colonial wars, and the corporate welfare bailout are bankrupting the country. The same imperial dynamic — external expansion leading to internal decline — destroyed the Soviet Union, America's Cold War foe. But the Cold War never ended in America. Which means that like the Soviet Union, the American Empire is also headed toward inevitable collapse. But will a free and democratic Fourth Republic rise from the ashes of the Third? That is not something any number of political saviors can settle. That's for the people alone.
(Note that I invoke the Myth of the West in its 20th-century Western-movie form. It's no coincidence that George W. Bush was proud to be known as the Cowboy President. He was John Wayne in the White House. The 19th-century "Indian wars" against the Native Americans, which inspired the Westerns, have finally reached the borders of India itself.)
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