The Fall Of Obama
A well written piece by a seasoned political journalist. I would disagree with one point. That is, Cockburn's claim that no single man (or woman) could right the wrongs in America.
Well, it would not be on the back of a single man. The President could have reached beyond Washington politics to engage the American people in reform. There are 300 million Americans and maybe some number of 10 million or whatever (I suspect well less than that) are wedded to an ideology of the status quo.
If the President's policies would have empowered the American people in lieu of Congress or his crony staff or his failed ideological notions, ie embraced democracy and a self-determined people, it would not have been on the back of a single man. He would have instead engaged countless Americans in the political process and that would have put enormous pressure on the Congress. Just as Roosevelt did. There are countless necessary economic and political reforms which could turn our economy around that are not ideological nor are they representative of either of the corrupt parties in Washington. Obama could have easily declawed the Republikaaners and the useful idiots who support them. Ditto with the nutty Dummycrats. Change would have been on the back of hundreds of millions of engaged Americans if the President were to have played his bully pulpit properly.
Instead, The Fall of Obama is a result of the same old Washington stupidity of two completely vacuous and morally-bankrupt political parties. The Fall of Obama is a result of a President who outwardly lacks any leadership skills and instead is a President of appeasement of corruption and a political engine without any moral clarity. Of a President who supports the corporatocracy like the horrendous political leaders before him.
The article comments that Obama has reached out to former President Clinton for advice. Well that's a winner. Clinton is the godfather of the corporatocracy. Possibly the worst President in our history. We are actually still in the process of defining our history over the past few decades. Nothing has been written in stone yet. By the time this is all finished and sanity returns to our country, history books will start a new monument to go side by side with Mount Rushmore. It will be the Monument of the Three Stooges; Clinton, Bush and Reagan.
Well, it would not be on the back of a single man. The President could have reached beyond Washington politics to engage the American people in reform. There are 300 million Americans and maybe some number of 10 million or whatever (I suspect well less than that) are wedded to an ideology of the status quo.
If the President's policies would have empowered the American people in lieu of Congress or his crony staff or his failed ideological notions, ie embraced democracy and a self-determined people, it would not have been on the back of a single man. He would have instead engaged countless Americans in the political process and that would have put enormous pressure on the Congress. Just as Roosevelt did. There are countless necessary economic and political reforms which could turn our economy around that are not ideological nor are they representative of either of the corrupt parties in Washington. Obama could have easily declawed the Republikaaners and the useful idiots who support them. Ditto with the nutty Dummycrats. Change would have been on the back of hundreds of millions of engaged Americans if the President were to have played his bully pulpit properly.
Instead, The Fall of Obama is a result of the same old Washington stupidity of two completely vacuous and morally-bankrupt political parties. The Fall of Obama is a result of a President who outwardly lacks any leadership skills and instead is a President of appeasement of corruption and a political engine without any moral clarity. Of a President who supports the corporatocracy like the horrendous political leaders before him.
The article comments that Obama has reached out to former President Clinton for advice. Well that's a winner. Clinton is the godfather of the corporatocracy. Possibly the worst President in our history. We are actually still in the process of defining our history over the past few decades. Nothing has been written in stone yet. By the time this is all finished and sanity returns to our country, history books will start a new monument to go side by side with Mount Rushmore. It will be the Monument of the Three Stooges; Clinton, Bush and Reagan.
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