"Challenging Obama’s Anti-Progressivism" By Stephen Lendman

[WizardLeft62]

Dissident Voice

Challenging Obama’s Anti-Progressivism
by Stephen Lendman / December 7th, 2010

“…Believing Obama is progressive is like calling a cat a dog. Only the delusional think so. He’s, in fact, hard-right, a neocon, a warrior president, a corporatist pursuing anti-populist policies favoring wealth and privilege, not social justice when more than ever it’s needed. He’s a fraud, an elitist, chosen years ago, then put on a fast track to power. Big monied interests love him. So do war profiteers and members of America’s aristocracy. He’s one of them. Only the voting millions who backed him were defrauded. Will they awaken, finally understand, and express their ire publicly more strongly than in mid-term theatrics, throwing out bums for new ones? It’s high time. A year two Obama assessment is coming. Watch for it, parts I and II. A year one analysis can be accessed here and here.

….Obama’s agenda is mirror opposite — anti-progressive/populist/liberal. Judge him by his advisors and top officials. They support power, not working Americans. Their policies are pro-war, pro-business, pro-privilege, pro-super wealth, anti-dissent, anti-democracy, anti-freedom, anti-civil and human rights, anti-environmental sanity, and anti-government of, by and for the people. They oppose virtually everything most people want, need but don’t get under either party, one a near clone of the other. After eight Bush/Cheney/Republican years, Americans wanted change. Obama’s promise won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years, along with congressional Democrats gaining large House and Senate majorities. Out with the old. In with the new. Everything changed but stayed the same. In fact, it worsened with perhaps greater harshness coming in Obama’s next two years, including escalated imperial wars, neoliberal austerity, greater than ever impoverishment, desperation and despair, as well as hardened repression to curb popular anger…..”

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http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/12/challenging-obamas-anti-progressivism/

[angstlessk]

1. I sadly recommend this post...head shaking....eyes blinking back tears

I am truly unhappy to have to do this...but..truth is truth...

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[MasonJar]

4. Obama was never a progressive.

I tried to warn y'all on DU when he was running. You were so enmamored of him that you seized on all he purported. However, if you had delved into some of his votes as a senator you would have seen. He lied to us to defeat Hillary. He is right of the Clintons. At least Hillary, who by the way is far left of Bill, makes women's rights a priority. As the writer says, look at his appointments, especially in the Treasury Department. Obama is a phony. He makes me furious. I wouldn't be mad, if he had run and won on what he truly believes. I am mad that he won by deluding us.