Heywood J. | Hammer Of The Blogs
1 May 2013
You can make fun of Dubya's ridonkulous Liberry and its self-serving
exhibits, but what's Obama's library going to look like at the rate he's
going, a cartoon of Barry O getting pushed around by Mitch McConnell
and Jamie Dimon for eight goddamned years?
I know his acolytes console themselves that his feckless
11th-dimensional chess mastery is somehow infinity better than whatever
shit sandwich Romney and Ryan were cooking up. But only as a mild,
eroding bulwark against the eternal predations of the oligarchy, not
that Obama has done thing one about them or even slowed them down. In
the meantime, every bloody thing you despised about the Bushies --
imprisonment without trial, drone war without end, the ongoing and
deliberate ruination of the financial system, the rich getting richer
and the poor no longer even getting by -- continue unabated.
There's not much more time for Obama to decide and act on whether he
wants to end on eight years of excuses and ineffectual moderation, or to
take a risk and do something, anything, pick a direction and grab a
shovel. I have zero faith that he'll do the right thing, and it no
longer matters whether he wants to but can't, or if he simply was never
the transformative figure he was pretending to be. Just another
politician, forever chasing the next election and too timid to do
anything that might actually impact someone from the non-donor class.
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