Our Presidents are merely puppets
for the Robber Class and Obama is no exception.
Cindy Sheehan -- Information Clearing House
“When a government lies to you, it no longer has authority over you.” --Cindy Sheehan. Dallas, Texas; 2005
July 22, 2009 -- Okay,
so the United States of America has had a new puppet regime for six
months now. I was never so much into giving Obama a “chance” and I
think it’s way past time to call Obama and his supporters out, like we
called Bush and his supporters out. Our Presidents are merely puppets
for the Robber Class and Obama is no exception.
I
am observing very little “change” in actual policy, or even rhetoric
from an Obama regime. Granted, his style and delivery are more polished
than the last puppet, but especially in foreign policy, little has
changed. Evidently we elect Presidents based on empty rhetoric and if
we can find someone who can say very little using many words, that’s
better. I knew a year ago when Obama and his ilk were blathering on
about “change” that they didn’t mean positive “change” for us, but it’s
a shame Obama’s voters didn’t ask him to be a little more specific or
demand some good “change.”
Besides
foreign policy where he is a complete disaster, it appears Obama’s jobs
program is little more than adding tens of thousands of troops to an
already bloated military, instead of bringing troops home from
anywhere. Billions will go to the money trap of the Pentagon to invest
in recruiting, where the budgets of peace groups who do counter
recruitment are tanking.
This
is the 3rd week in July and already it’s the deadliest month for U.S. and
coalition troops deaths in Af/Pak. Who would ever have thought when
violence is surged, then deaths would surge, also? I think I’ve seen
this movie before.
The
blueprint for this disastrous administration came early when O
appointed nothing but neocons to his foreign policy team. The Secretary
of State and the National Security advisor have even both admitted that
the Council on Foreign Relations/Henry Kissinger are calling the shots.
Sec. Clinton at a speech at the new HQ for the Council on Foreign Relations:
"I
have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it’s
good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from
the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council (Council
of Foreign Relations), so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to
be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the
future."
National
Security Advisor, James Jones, who also VERY coincidentally, I’m sure,
was on the boards of directors of Chevron and Boeing, had this to say
earlier this year:
"As
the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take
my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger. Jones was also giving a speech to
the Council on Foreign relations at the time. Kissinger is a fabulous
role model for war, don’t you think."
How
many deaths will Kissinger be forced to atone for when he goes to the
same place as McNamara? Wherever prosperous war criminals go to when
they die?
As
an early, ardent and unapologetic supporter of the Bush Pre-emptive
Wars of Aggression Doctrine, Sec. Clinton showed her true colors early
on in her tenure as an elected official and, of course, Jones is a war
profiteer. Added to this mix is George Bush’s SecDef, Robert Gates, and
these are just the main players. Contrary to his “promise” Obama has
appointed former lobbyists to key positions in the Pentagon.
We
all know all of these things, but the more things “change” the more
they stay the same. Apparently the OBots are co-opting the excuses of
the BushBots to justify their savior’s surge in Afghanistan and
Pakistan and broken promise after broken promise in Iraq.
The
other day Howard Dean, on DemocracyNow!, told Amy Goodman that although
Iraq was bad, we need to stay in Afghanistan because, first and
foremost, for the women:
"And
if we leave, women will experience the most extraordinary depredations
of any population on the face of the earth. I think we have some
obligation to try and see if we can make this work, not just for
America and our security interests, but for the sake of women in
Afghanistan and all around the globe. Is this acceptable to treat women
like this? I think not."
Laura Bush earlier this year:
“There’s
still a risk to women in Afghanistan. I hope the people of the United
States will stay committed. We don’t want to see Afghanistan go back to
what it was before.”
I
have been on my Myth America Book Tour for three months now and almost
everywhere I go, an older white male will stand up and say: “Cindy, we
really need to stop allowing Iraq to distract us. Afghanistan always
was the place we needed to focus our attentions!” And besides the other
neocon reasons given for why U.S. troops need to decimate that country
further and kill more innocent women and children is: you guessed it:
For the women!
So,
we are literally sending in the cavalry to rescue the poor women of
Afghanistan, and the patriarchal state apparatus and its zombie
adherents don’t care how many women we have to kill to save them.
Disgusting.
I
give Obama an “F” for his first six months. There has been nothing to
like from his continuing the Bush failed economic policies to excluding
single-payer advocates from the table. Not to mention reinforcing and
protecting Bush Crimes.
The good news is: He’s got plenty of room for improvement!
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