No Surprise: Barack Obama is Not the Right Choice

Barak Obama is continuing to show the kind of political pandering that many politicians have come to expect of themselves. Barak is perpetuating an unfortunate reality that in order to get elected in this society of the spectacle politicians will continue to forfeit their moral and ethical principles to special interest groups and their money. Without campaign finance laws that would bar politicians for running a campaign with private funds and make all politicians compete with the exact same amount of money, it is probable that clever politicos like Obama and Clinton will get elected for their charm, smiles, pandering and demographic novelty. This reality, however, is nothing new. Throughout American electoral history there has been a gap between public opinion and the public policy adopted by our politicians.

Obama is not “anti-war” but instead “anti-Bush-wars.” We must learn more about the "true" nature of Obama's "audacity." Obama has been pandering to the wealthy American Jew Society for their support and as a result reiterating widely discredited propaganda about this past year’s intense violence between Hizbollah and Israel. Obama is calling for increasing Israeli military funding, missile defense, etc. All the while, he has done nothing to denounce Israelis violence and crimes against the Palestinians.

Elsewhere, Obama is against a National Health Care Plan, including a single-payer system like that in Canada. His reason for such a position is that it would hurt the employees of the private insurance industry. Obama’s pandering to the massively wealthy private insurance companies easily explains this illogical position.

Obama should also be called out for all variety of other inconsistencies in his rhetoric and misrepresentation to the American public. For that matter, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton need to check their zeal for having an African American elected at all costs, considering their roles championing social justice causes for the past several decades.

It is unfortunate that the enthusiasm many Americans have felt towards Obama for seeming to have brought candor and forthrightness to the political discussion (i.e. admitting to having smoked and inhaled pot, admitting to a smoking addiction, etc.) is underscored by the huge missteps he has made in actually trying to represent American public opinion.

Most importantly, from the perspective of a revolutionary seeking deep, genuine social change, a vote for Obama, Clinton, et. al. will likely prove to be a gigantic step towards the breeding of more political and economic complacency. Lest we forget, Bill Clinton did more to advance rabid corporate globalization than any other president. Clinton was an ardent free-trader and proponent of the “Washington Consensus.” On the domestic front, Clinton was only supportive of an organized labor force in word, as he was extremely friendly to Big Business. Sadly, four more years of President Bush may be a much more radicalizing force than the lulling effect Obama, Clinton, et. al. will likely have on the American public.