posted October 13, 2012 08:22 PM
with all due respect, randall, any president has to work within what is basically "puppet" status. every president since kennedy at least.while i deplore much of obama's presidency, people who give him too much power in their minds are missing the point entirely.
but i would rather have a puppet who is at least trying to get some of the power and money working FOR the people than one who doesn't frankly give a sh*t.
as to you who think obama is a "socialist", people thought the same of kennedy. they called him at least as many nasty names as jwhop has used on obama, and the 87th congress (kennedy's first) was about as productive as our last great meeting of slugs.
John Kennedy shrewdly used the system to get inside, and then it is clear from his actions that he intended to change it, that he did not like or approve of it, and that is, I believe, why those who had lived by this system, with its ideological cover of "Calvinism," decided that he had to go.
When John Kennedy refused to allow the CIA and American troops to attack Cuba, resulting in the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, General Charles P. Cabell, Deputy Director of the CIA, went around Washington calling President Kennedy a traitor!
Now, try to understand this: John Kennedy was being called a traitor because he did not believe in the CIA conducting covert operations in other countries, subverting other governments, and generally behaving illegally from any normal person's point of view. Also keep in mind that all of this was directed at creating a "New World Order" with the oligarchy of the U.S. in control.
of course they got rid of him. how many people do you know who are smart enough AND brave enough to go up against a juggernaut with many faces, most of them hidden behind the sort of posturing we see every day?
i continue in my belief that obama, at least, is trying to be a "real boy". cannot say the same for mitt, who does exactly as he is told, as witness his many shifting shapes...
and despite the fact that they are recorded and available, people who have swallowed the "bloody foreign socialist muslim" rap laid on obama by the likes of rush, can't see it.
if small government were actually on the romney/ryan menu, I would vote for them. but all they REALLY stand for is a government that is no way responsible to the people. government by corporations and banks who are not interested in votes, the wishes of the people, or anything that threatens their aggrandizement.
and they continue to play "divide and conquer" and people continue to fall for it every time.