Found this in 2008. I should have known better.

[BigBearJohn]

"Obama is merely the product of an effective marketing campaign which has utilized media outlets ranging from Rupert Murdoch to The Nation to sell this new version of a very old product—the Democratic Party “friend of the people,” previously incarnated in the “insurgent” candidacy of Jimmy Carter in 1976, then in the “man from Hope,” Bill Clinton himself, in 1992. An Obama presidency would no more represent a fundamental change in American politics than the election of Carter and Clinton did, and if Murdoch & Co. feared it would, he would never have been allowed anywhere near the White House.

The typical Obama speech is a mass of nebulous phrases about uniting America, without the slightest acknowledgement that social and economic interests of working people, the vast majority of Americans, are diametrically opposed to those of the corporate and financial elite. In perhaps his most noteworthy comment, after the South Carolina primary, he explicitly rejected the notion that the wealthy don’t care about the condition of ordinary people.

Obama’s mantra of bringing everyone together may appeal to the naïve illusions of youth who are making their first political experiences, but Obama and the Wall Street bankers and media moguls who are promoting him know exactly what they are doing. Theirs is a conscious policy of blurring social and political differences and denying class divisions in a society more deeply divided along economic lines than ever before in its history."

[rfranklin]

1. Link?

[DontTreadOnMe]

3. Need a link! Here, it spells it out for you very clearly...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-You-Fools


Seems a whole bunch a people all just realized what is going on...

[Cetacea]

5. Thanks for the link. Sobering.

[BigBearJohn]

8. holy shit. this article deserves its own OP -- thanks for this.

[BigBearJohn]

4. Sorry, no link. It was emailed to me.

[Chulanowa]

7. So that's what DU is now

A bunch of fucking morons trading fucking moronic Email campaigns they received from other fucking morons, and claiming "It's true! it's all true!" Like a pack of... well, like a pack of fucking morons.

[BigBearJohn]

9. Please don't hold back on my account. Let it all out.

[liberal N proud]

6. People don't think they need to back up their statements anymore

Gone are the days when you had best post a link or face the wrath of the members and even the mods.

When you ask for a link, the OP or someone who agrees with them, gets indignant because you asked for one.

[madokie]

2. see ya'

bye

[BzaDem]

10. What does that tell you? That there hasn't been a president you liked since 1965 at least?

Should that be an indication that your expectations are maybe a little out of whack?

[babylonsister]

11. The actual link is from the World Socialist Website and who you trying to

kid, BBJ? You NEVER liked Obama to begin with so you're being disingenuous.

Oh, and Happy Holidays.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/obam-f04.shtml

[NNN0LHI]

12. Stupid people tend to think everyone is as stupid as them

He isn't kidding no one.

Don

[BigBearJohn]

14. and stupid people ignore the issue and instead call names, eh?

[BigBearJohn]

13. I voted for him. You want me to like him too? I did for a while.

On edit: Happy Holidays to you too.