John Pilger : "Barack Obama is a glossy Uncle Tom who would bomb Pakistan".

by Nice Sat Jun 07, 2008 22:55

Love the video!

I think his lack of experience may be turned to his advantage though. Spin is a crazy, crazy thing, especially when you have the deep pockets and corporate support Obama does.

He's a politician in the pockets of big money, running on a campaign based on fixing a corrupt system that he's using to its fullest. He's done a lot already to show how it can be done. You can play dirty Chicago politics, back your corporate donors while appearing to fight them, back racist factions for years, and act like you're against them, build up the military, and act like you're for peace. People will eat it up, I guess, if you have the right words and the right look.

I think the next argument will be, "Well, now it's him or McCain..." I don't trust the way he tricked so many people into thinking he was so different at first. I don't trust his motives. He hides his increased militarism under the cloak of increased diplomacy. Although he lies (or misspeaks or whatever he wants to call it) so much, I don't even know what he's lying about or what he's really about, and to be honest, I hope we don't have to find out, because I don't care. I can't even tell if his dad was Arab or African in descent, since his books start off gently advising that they're a fiction of sorts. This much smoke and mirrors can't bode well for America.

Is he really out to fight Iran?
Is he really out to increase US-Israel conflict with the rest of the world?
Or... was he actually honest in his Reverend Wright days, and he's just really tricking Israel for now, and the Palestaneans are safe?
Is he really into cleaning up the system (har har), or is he just for using loopholes to make it appear cleaner (like he's doing now)?

I'm just saying, unfortunately, his "lack of experience" is probably the least of our problems.

by Campaign Watcher Sat Jun 07, 2008 18:53

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o

by AJ Sat Jun 07, 2008 16:45

It sounds like you are saying the best cheerleader should be president. That is not true on many levels.

Obama is just as in the pocket as everyone else, and even has a staff loaded with "former lobbyists" raising obscene amounts of cash they get to add to the dollars good people also gave them. His Chicago and Illinois past show him "playing the game" rather well, actually. His double talk is amazing. He is very legalistic, in that the technicalities are sometimes true, even if the spirit is false. He's much more believable than Bush though, if you don't parse anything he says or compare it to his actions or even what he said the day before.

So he is just another corrupt, lying politician, with true, multi-media appeal. That could actually make his "unifying" ability all the more potentially destructive for America. At least nobody can say they're oppressed by a white system anymore.

In honor of the late Martin Luther King Jr., let's ask ourselves at least once, please. Should we unite against a candidate that denies US Imperialism and just promises to do it better? Because, together, we can.

by CL Mon Feb 25, 2008 23:39

This is what Senator Obama said after his victories in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C.

"We can't keep playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and somehow expect a different result, because it's a game that ordinary Americans are losing. We are going to put this game to an end.
It's a game where lobbyists write check after check and Exxon turns record profits, while you pay the price at the pump and our planet is put at risk. That's what happens when lobbyists set the agenda, and that's why they won't drown out your voices anymore when I am president of the United States of America.
It's a game where trade deals, like NAFTA, ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wages at the local fast-food joint or at Wal-Mart.
It's what happens when the American worker doesn't have a voice at the negotiating table, when leaders change their positions on trade with the politics of the moment, and that is why we need a president who will listen not just to Wall Street, but to Main Street, a president who will stand with workers not just when it's easy, but when it's hard, and that's the kind of president I intend to be when I'm president of the United States of America.
It's a game where Democrats and Republicans fail to come together year after year after year, while another mother goes without health care for her sick child. That's why we have to put an end to the divisions and distractions in Washington so that we can unite this nation around a common purpose, around a higher purpose.
It's a game where the only way for Democrats to look tough on national security is by talking, and acting, and voting like Bush-McCain Republicans, while our troops are sent to fight tour after tour of duty in a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged.
That's what happens when we use 9/11 to scare up votes instead of bringing together the people around a common purpose. And that's why we need to do more than end the war; we need to end the mindset that got us into war."
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by Funky P Mon Feb 25, 2008 09:20

Funky P Quote of the Day:
Wanted: American President
The best candidate is the one that inspires the American people. The one who is about us and not just about themselves. The one who is not just for some of us but for all of us.

The solution is for all of us to "up our game". We need a manager who can get the most out of the American team. The most important issue is to have a president who can get the country excited about a political purpose. We need another "New Deal" we need a "Change".

Does anybody know FDR's proven accomplishments before he pulled the country out of the Great Depression." Maybe HE just came in with inspiration and a good plan and the American people believed and executed. Did Abraham Lincoln have any proven accomplishments before the presidency? What do you know, a good plan and a bunch of words but with action from the American people "changed" our world forever.

In our search for a great president we are also searching for our better selves. We Americans are at our best when our spirits are stirred up. Our past great presidents are ones that caused us to do more than we thought possible. Finally, the only test that matters: Which candidate will inspire us to do more good than we think we are capable of?