This is straight out of Dickens. Have the working poor shiver in their beds so the rich can keep cozy while counting all their money?
Yes let’s cheer Obama for being the nice rich man who apologizes for making Tiny Tim shiver but remember Timmy is still in the cold without a blanket.
What a cruel and unjust system of government we have. Obama in 2008 challenged us to not be cynics with the Audacity of Hope message.
Obama asked us to speak up so as to give support to the change we all wanted. Then once elected he brought in all the corrupt players from Bill Clinton’s years and when we voiced our support for a Public Option he told us to be quiet. When we voiced our dismay that so little was done for the poor he told us to be quiet and vote regardless for his party.
When a President and Congress no longer listen to the people and only listens to a tiny elite of rich bankers and Oligarchs, this would normally describe a dictatorship.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
When it comes to Iran, Obama is so far out ahead of the people, that he is chomping at the bit desperate for them to catch up.
Read today that America boot started the Iranian revolt using a barrage of Farsi Twitters and it of course has flopped. We have also endangered brave people all so that Obama can posture and boast in 2012.
This is so crass. Hillary Clinton and her boss Barak were busy for the last two weeks trying to not react to the Egyptian, spontaneous, uprising.
Now America thinking that the Egyptian revolt was due in large part to a Google executive, using Twitter and Facebook tries to make what was wishful thinking a reality.
Just goes to show that Obama and Hillary have learned nothing from the past month. The last two weeks they have lived under the delusion that a Google executive using Twitter can be the new Gandhi R U.S.
So having been slow to support a spontaneous revolt that did not need Twitter. They then decide that sending Twitters cunningly in Farsi would help kick start the revolt. It's really embarrassing to see another government underachieve.
Worse still unlike Egypt they have made the possible uprising an American sponsored event and if the regime wanted exhibit A in proving that we are hypocrites they just have to point out that Obama ordered no Twitters sent to the Egyptians.
Too little too late in Egypt is now applauded as great diplomacy by American pundits. When it comes to Iran, Obama is so far out ahead of the people that he is chomping at the bit desperate for them to catch up. With Egypt he was shameful and made America look disgraceful.
Obama's hypocrisy makes me regret my vote for him in 2008.
This is so crass. Hillary Clinton and her boss Barak were busy for the last two weeks trying to not react to the Egyptian, spontaneous, uprising.
Now America thinking that the Egyptian revolt was due in large part to a Google executive, using Twitter and Facebook tries to make what was wishful thinking a reality.
Just goes to show that Obama and Hillary have learned nothing from the past month. The last two weeks they have lived under the delusion that a Google executive using Twitter can be the new Gandhi R U.S.
So having been slow to support a spontaneous revolt that did not need Twitter. They then decide that sending Twitters cunningly in Farsi would help kick start the revolt. It's really embarrassing to see another government underachieve.
Worse still unlike Egypt they have made the possible uprising an American sponsored event and if the regime wanted exhibit A in proving that we are hypocrites they just have to point out that Obama ordered no Twitters sent to the Egyptians.
Too little too late in Egypt is now applauded as great diplomacy by American pundits. When it comes to Iran, Obama is so far out ahead of the people that he is chomping at the bit desperate for them to catch up. With Egypt he was shameful and made America look disgraceful.
Obama's hypocrisy makes me regret my vote for him in 2008.
The Egyptian rich have a choice, Twitter their surrender, or have their children Facebook a bloody future.
We Americans have a curious view of the world. Despite the news this morning of widespread strikes and articles yesterday about Egyptians striking to get rid of their Oligarch bosses, Class, is rarely if ever mentioned.
The reasons for the revolt, so clearly stated, time and time again are mostly economic and having a real democracy is the vehicle of choice to achieve a better life.
If Obama truly wants to avoid a Muslim Brotherhood regime, then he should allow the Egyptian people to seek justifiable retribution against the “Davos” elite, who continue to undermine the hopes and aspirations of the people. Sadly for Obama, a great admirer of the CEO class, the problems of the region, if not the world, lay at the feet of Oligarchs and bankers.
I appreciate the danger of highlighting the massive disparity of wealth between Egyptians and their rulers but do we really want an extremist government come in offering bigotry as a solution?
Is it so terrible to suggest that the Wealthy of Egypt surrender their books for an audit? Is it Marxist to suggest the average Egyptian is paid enough to raise a family? Why do we assume that the whole world accept the rule of Oligarch controlled governments?
Do we really dread Socialism more than “tribal” hatreds?
The Egyptian rich have a choice, Twitter their surrender, or have their children Facebook a bloody future.
Egypt will not accept a minority getting richer and dictating.
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