I hear a lot of talk about the elite global ruling class today

[27inCali]

it gives me hope.

let's just be careful not to waste too much time turning Obama into a sacrificial lamb the way we did Bush.

There's nothing the corporate masters would love more than for us to project all our frustration on him and ignore them. They find that shit hilarious.

instead of calling Obama a shill, let's be honest. The President is pretty close to being just a figure head.

We were fooled into thinking the Presidency is powerful during the Bush years because it seemed he could do whatever he wanted.

the truth was that he was enabled to do these things because the people he was serving were the ones with the real levers of power.

I don't think Obama is serving them directly like Bush did, but he has to work around these assholes all day long and they are always so happy to remind him of his limitations.

so long as we act like good consumers, use credit cards and put ourselves in debt and keeping expecting anything positive out of following the rules (their rules BTW), we fund them and make them more powerful.

let's stop blaming Obama for a global disaster that has been building since the days of the Medicis and Templars.

or just call me nuts, whatever.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I hear just a lot of stupid whinging today.

Honestly it reminds me nothing less of the general election last year when it was becoming pretty obvious that Obama was going to win, and all those nuts at the Sarah Palin rallies just started shouting patently stupid shit.

[27inCali]

2. yeah, I hear stupid whining too...

but people need to get real.

shit wont get solved by attacking Obama. He falls short in a lot of ways, but the real problem is the corporate masters.

I wish people would reserve a little anger for them instead of wasting it on a President that is trying to do some good for once..

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. There are people in GD bitching about stem cell research.

Stem cells!

[avaistheone1]

4. FDR did not bow to the corporate masters.

I do not expect Obama to continue to do so either.

[ShortnFiery]

5. He's presently doing THIER bidding with endless war and corporate enrichment.

President Obama needs to grow a spine or be a one term President.

[avaistheone1]

6. Obama be the president or forget about it.

[LooseWilly]

7. Heh... health care industry sway on display is kind of like a spotlight, isn't it?

I can't help but wonder if the people in Republican districts might not be building a little rage against the corporate interests and the tool Republicans that serve them... or if they're all so completely programmed to believe that they are the chosen ones of God (another fringe benefit of corporate "personhood"... they can now become prophets of Gawd, apostles of Jeebus, and... possessed by the Holy Spirit <?- is that what the god ghostie does?>...) and so corporate spokespeople are good, and government is bad.

[Armstead]

8. You are correct but I blame Obama and the Democrats for not standing up to them

A fundamentalm problem is that the Global Elite Oligarchs get disproportionla representation and influence in the political process.

That happens because the people who get elected give it to them.

The job of people like Obama and the Democratic Party is to balance the scales, and give the interests of the public representation. If Obama and the Democrats refuse to even try to represent the interests of the public, then we are shut out.

That was the promise Obama ran on. But he is not really even trying.

Thus they are largely to blame.