A young man with little known accomplishment or track record other than voting no to Iraq war as a jr. senator of Illinois, becomes U.S. president ‘against all odds’. He was supported by the richest in the U.S. and around the world, morally and financially. Was a superstar long before getting elected and a megastar afterwards. He is smart and talented for sure with immense self confidence, ‘charisma’, and the world’s largest known fan club to booth. He inherited a cluster from the little Bush for sure but has spent several trillions of tax dollars and overwhelmingly to key players of Wall Street and Corporate world in an effort ‘to revive the U.S economy’.
The total tax expenditure is in the 8-11 trillion dollars (about the size of the U.S. economy) depending on whose numbers you believe. His key team and cabinets include the who is who of Clinton era, as well as a mix of well known DC usual suspects. His Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was and is a key cohort of all the super rich and was in on the Bush administration’s economic team and his recent phone records as published by Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney shows overwhelming amount of calls are to the top three recipients of tax dollar bailouts and Obama in rhythmic and sequential manner. See: “”
No sizeable American population of ‘regular people’ has benefited from his economics and even restructuring of a home loan is often futile challenge for many. Despite much rhetoric he has delivered nothing but promises on the Middle East conflicts, bent backward to ‘work out’ a plan for Iran that seems to benefit only the islamic regime, and is ‘working through’ Afghanistan by expanding the conflict in a ‘smart’ manner. Many of you may not recall that the release of the long held islamic regime ‘diplomats’ in Iraq came only days after the uprising of the Iranian people after the koodeta. His health plan seems to have moved from an overhaul to a minor cosmetic surgery with unclear benefit to anyone but the insurance companies who were the key kitchen cabinet when the initial plan was being conceived and much like Bush/Cheney Energy ‘advisors’ that all turned out to be oil execs, Obama White house won’t release any notes or details and fights any attempts at finding out about the health ‘advisors’ and what transpired. With this array of fine accomplishment he apparently became the obvious candidate for, and won the Noble prize.
I can just about assure you that he will work sufficiently well to get re-elected so he can complete the ‘economic transformation’ of America. I have never seen a person get so much recognition and accolades for having done so little. I know he counts many of you among his fans and supporters and dearly hope that I’m wrong for our collective sake but a word of caution: be careful what you wish for. Your hopes and aspirations for ‘real-change’ is the best enabler of the Manchurian candidate to deliver it. It just might not be what you are hoping for so lets keep a critical eye out and balance enthusiasm and hope with a dose of critical analysis.
