When he entered the Presidential race last year, Barack Obama spoke eloquently about "Change we can believe in". Since winning the primary and caucus victory over Senator Clinton, however, he has devoted both his elequence and his mumbling debate performance into an endorsement of the policies of the failed administration of George W. Bush.
I have pointed out before that the Senator has gone out of his way to pledge continuance of the current Social Security system without change, and endorsed the imperialist foreign policy of the Bush Administration([link edited for length]). I also said that he should lead his party's response to the Paulson Plan([link edited for length]). At the debate with John McCain, he fully endorsed the Paulson Plan, and, since a majority in the House of Representatives saved us from that coup, he has strengthened his support of it and blamed John McCain for its rejection in the House([link edited for length]).
Obush still wraps the now tattered cape of "change" and "Hope we can believe in" around him by continuing to advocate his plan for univeral medical care. But the "Plan" that he is endorsing is to turn the credit and the spending power of Congress over to the Federal Reserve Board. This will make a massive new program, such as universal health care impossible.([link edited for length])
So Obush may still be eloquent and physically attractive, but he cannot be an agent of change, and he cannot keep his promises. He will simply be a more attractive figurehead for the same policies and the same incompetent leadership that the country has had for the last twenty years.
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Published: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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