Can We Still Save Ourselves?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Too-Late-To-Save-The-by-Bruce-Dixon-110819-819.html

Two and half years into the Obama presidency, some of us spend more time mooning over pretty pictures of the First Family, their beautiful kids and regal mother-in-law than we spend publicly worrying over the fates of millions of families, children and elders we personally know. Why are some of us still trying to "save" the Obama administration. When will it be time to save ourselves from endless war, climate change, joblessness and the other ravages of late predatory capitalism?

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To start with, the president is easily the most powerful figure in government. Short of impeachment -- and if the Bush-Cheney gang couldn't get impeached, nobody can -- Congress and the courts have little power to counteract or overrule an aggressive and energetic president. Hence the notion that Blue Dog Dems and wily Republicans kept Obama from advancing his legislative agenda during the two years he had a 50 vote margin in the House and a filibuster proof Senate majority are silly.

Barack Obama's first policy achievement was to work the phones and persuade enough congressional Democrats to support Bush's September 2008 bailout bill. That legislation failed to pass the Democratic dominated Congress the first time. Thanks to Barack, it succeeded the second time, netting the banksters $3 trillion, and when Obama became president, he upped the ante to $16 trillion, bailing out all the derivative and other speculative bettors in Wall Street's casino. What Obama didn't do is bail out the families in those homes. An unprecedented wave of foreclosures has doubled the wealth gap between white and black families in only a few years, and the wave continues.

Obama has retired the phrase "war on terror" but continued and expanded armed interventions in too many countries to name here, most notably Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, Colombia and Somalia. The military budget continues to grow, and with his participation in the debt ceiling hoax, Democrat Barack Obama has done what no Republican would have been able to do -- he unleashed a process that will impose radical cuts in social security, Medicare and Medicaid. Obama reversed his promises on network neutrality after the election, and has apparently never met a giant corporate merger he didn't like.

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[Tippy]

1. Yes we can.....But the clock is ticking for this old pessimistic.....Dem...

1.A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: "We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach" (Margo Jones).
2.The doctrine or belief that this is the worst of all possible worlds and that all things ultimately tend toward evil.
3.The doctrine or belief that the evil in the world outweighs the good.


Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/pessimism#ixzz1VbSJv000

[MineralMan]

2. Well, now you've done it. I'm convinced. We truly are doomed.

:sarcasm: