Obama the traitor

After the brokering of a tax cut deal sealing the triumph of the new oligarchs, Obama makes Neville Chamberlain look like a saint. You may recall from ancient history how Neville Chamberlain, in an effort to broker a peace with the rising Third Reich, brokered a deal to surrender parts of Czechoslovakia to Germany that resulted in the surge toward WW II. I never understood the feeling of deep betrayal that people around the world felt about Chamberlain after that event until today. My wife is dying from brain cancer and I feel worse about this deal Obama cut today.
I had misgivings about Obama’s ambition to get elected president from the moment he threw his pastor Jeremiah Wright under the bus when the Rev Wright threatened to be an obstacle in Obama’s path to the presidency. But the candidate quietly sealed that deal behind closed doors.
I felt worse when Obama nominated Geithner and Sommers and the old Wall Street gang to fix the destruction Wall Street had wreaked upon the American economy. But the President convinced us saving the banking industry was good for America.
And I felt worse when their fix was to let the investment bankers become commercial bankers and borrow money for nothing from the Fed without any benefit to mortgage holders or the man in the street. But the President convinced us that trickle down economics really would work this time for the man in the street.
And I felt worse when the abomination of desolation, disgraced enabler of Bush 41 years in the White House was held over from the Bush 43 years to continue the failed policies of Iraq and Afghanistan. I am speaking of Sec Defense Robert Gates, the leader of the military industrial complex that has made the U.S defense industry the armorers of the anti-democratic free world. But the President’s henchmen spoke highly of a deal to protect the rest of the world from the predations of an ambitious Iran.
And I felt worse when Obama continued the Bush policies on public surveillance and the perpetual war on terror and the illegal war in Pakistan and the Special Services invasion of Yemen. But the President assured us that all those legions of terrorists would bring us down if we weren’t protected.
And I felt worse when the President pacified the Israelis on the settlement issue obstructing peace with the Palestinians. But the President claimed true grit in standing in the way of an Israeli government determined to continue its expansion into the Palestinian territories that have been sanctified by multitudes of international laws and agreements. And who could doubt the President’s sincerity?
But I never felt I could feel worse than I did today when the President finally exposed himself for what he was, the ultimate traitor to the values and ideals of a liberal government of the people, by the people, for the people without any trickle down required.
JM