Don't Reward Betrayal: Dump Oligarch Obama

I voted for him too. But not again. Yes, I know, the argument is that if we don't vote for him we'll get even worse. Don't fall for it. The worst we'll get is someone just as bad. Obama is a fraud and a hypocritical hustler. What he really is is the best Republican candidate for 2012. As Boehner pointed out, Obama has given the GOP 98% of what they've wanted. Why? Not because he was forced to but because he is in fundamental agreement with the GOP agenda.

Obama received more money from Wall Street and the corporate elite than any political candidate in American history. And there is where his loyalties lie. Don't be fooled by his occasional populist rhetoric. That's just a ploy. He is a corporatist through and through. Look at the record and close your ears to the malarkey.

Look at his radical escalation of the profiteers' warfare. Look at the needless loss of life and limb.The only beneficiaries of Obama's wars are the banks and war industries which have made trillions from the slaughter. Obama is not "just as bad" as Bush. He's worse than Bush. Look at his refusal to hold the Wall-Street thieves accountable for their crimes despite the lives they've destroyed here and around the world. Look at his phoney "financial reform" that has kept the Wall-Street profiteers "too big to fail." They're raking in the money more than ever after Obama bailed them out at the expense of the American people. They are Obama's money suppliers and he takes excellent care of them. And take a gander at his "healthcare reform." The insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry are in full control and healthcare costs are increasing day by day. Have you seen the insurance companies complaining about Obama's "reforms?" Why would they? They are cashing in grandly with Obama's devoted assistance.

Yes, Obama isn't just Bush-all-over-again. He's worse. Did he fight hard to end the tax cuts to the wealthy? Of course not. He knows full well where his money comes from, astute Wall-Street Democrat that he is. And why is Timothy Geithner his Treasury Secretary? Because he was forced to appoint him? Come on. There are just no valid excuses for Obama--- and Progressives and others who continue to defend him need to get out of denial. Enough is enough.

Look at the grievous damage Obama is doing to this nation. Look at the terrible precedents he has set: Declaring an accused whistleblower guilty before trial and holding him in solitary confinement indefinitely under conditions amounting to torture; refusing to investigate and prosecute war crimes; conducting nationwide persecutions, home invasions and detentions of anti-war protestors; formulating "kill lists" of American citizens;appointing himself international executioner; refusing to even address the devastating increase in poverty in this nation that has resulted from the Wall-Street aberrations. And on and on.

This man is no leader, no custodian of the welfare of the American people. Obama is nothing but the willing puppet of the One Percent and we have to look that fact square in the face. This man cannot be rewarded for his utter betrayal of Americans who placed their trust in him. To support Obama for re-election would be to consent to being defrauded. Is this the message that we want to give out: that we are self-abnegating fools who forward the political careers of those who work against our legitimate interests and align themselves with profiteering plutocrats who are hostile to the best interests of our nation? God I hope not.

Obama has done nothing whatsoever to foster the well-being of the people of the United States. On the contrary he has served solely the interests of those who have profited enormously from the collective misery of the majority of Americans. Obama represents the low-point of the American presidency. I implore Americans of conscience and self-repect to reject this imposter unequivocally.

Let me say a word about the current Occupy -Wall Street movements. I have to admit that I had serious doubts that appreciable numbers of Americans would mobilize themselves against the tyranny that is besetting this nation. I am so happy that my doubts were mistaken. The protests have been managed with consummate skill and are growing steadily. I will not presume to offer advice. But I would just like to note that I would very much like to see the demonstrations result in Obama and the scores of other fraudulent and plutocracy-controlled politicians being exposed for exactly what they are.

And I would also note that the One Percent- Obama's backers and directors- understand only one thing --- profit---money. And the only way they can be made to loosen their iron-fisted hold on this nation is to threaten their profit. What else would work? Appeals to morality? Rational argument? Not on your life. Money is all they know, all they understand. And that is where they must be hit. And hit hard. I was happy to hear protestors encouraging people to start closing their accounts in the major bailed-out banks and transferring to community banks and credit unions and the like. That is just one example. But it seems clear that that is the direction that must be taken. Not just threats--- actions. Extensive planning for pertinent actions against offending banks, corporations, politicians and so forth must be an integral part of future strategy. The kind of sociopathic greed that we're dealing with will yield to nothing but the prospect of lost profits.

Finally, returning to Obama --- Please, the denial has to end. It is unpleasant to have to articulate fully the level of betrayal Obama has perpetrated. It has become painfully obvious that he came into office with the pre-planned agenda to function as the agent of the profiteers who made his election possible. Let us not venture to escape the obvious and let us not betray ourselves by submitting and consenting to our own undoing. We cannot just let this fraud saunter into the White House again. We just cannot.