I realize this is old news to this group, but the article nicely catalogs both how different and un-different (to coin a word) Obama has been from your typical political hack, especially in regards to regulations.
President Ronald Reagan did not make any bones about his intention to reverse the New Deal economics when he set out to promote Neoliberal economics. Likewise, president George W Bush did not conceal his agenda of aggressive, unilateral militarism abroad and curtailment of civil liberties at home.
There is a major similarity and a key difference between these two presidents, on the one hand, and President Barack Obama, on the other. The similarity lies in the fact that, like his predecessor, Obama faithfully, and indeed vigorously, carries out both the Neoliberal and militaristic policies he inherited. The difference is that while Reagan and Bush were, more or less, truthful to their constituents, Obama is not: while catering to the powerful interests vested in finance and military capitals, he pretends to be an agent of “change” and a source of “hope” for the masses.
There are also, of course, re-election considerations here. And here it seems that the president’s team is pinning his chances for re-election on big business and big media; confident that once he is able to win their hearts and minds, they will, in turn, be able to manipulate the public to vote for him – just as they did in the 2008 election.
And we Americans are nothing if not manipulatable.
There isn’t a speech Obama has given since President, that doesn’t contain lies or misrepresentation, or misdirection from real issues.
He is a master of deception, but only to the uncritical progressives and their “I gotta feel good about myself” cultists, hypnotized by the “Capitalism…America…is bad” mantra they heard and repeat, since grade school.
Thankfully many of those drones ended up in tent cities, or posting here at DU, so their insanity is being contained.
It’s not Obama’s fault that Congress passed a health care law that wasn’t constitutional and got thrown out. Well he could have avoided it but he had to pay off his insurance company friends. Nevertheless, he passed health care reform which has been the lefty dream for 70 years.
#62 I agree, it redistributed wealth unlike anything in America before it. Also via the EPA, FCC etc, the lefty agenda is covertly being accomplished.
He has been very effective, the most successful progressive president ever…and he hides his achievements via camouflage, center right semantics fooling all non critical thinkers, most of the electorate.
It is hard to imagine a president who actively works against its well being, so his misdirection and characterization has been very successful.
But that deception only works for a time, and as we see, even on DU his duplicity is becoming known.
Had our snake oil media vetted Obama, he never would have been president. They deserve to be beaten…their advocacy for the progressive world government agenda is definitely not in our best interests. They hate us, and want us to suffer for our sins, our former prosperity…our former success…when we have already declined…its only a FED paper illusion we aren’t already bankrupt…
That was Old Barack.
Nubarack means all that stuff he’s saying.
#64->And we’ll all learn that as we just get to know him better. Before, we just didn’t like him because we didn’t know him.
I lernt about ‘im pretty danged quick!
Paraphrased: “I’m gonna steal money from these people, give some of it to these other people, and give the rest to my friends. And I’m gonna do legally by using the hucksters you vote into office!”