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What Obama and his supporters have accomplished is ASTOUNDING. Six months ago, my assumption was that Hillary would be the nominee, in every scenario I could think of for the near future of our country. I thought the DLC & co. had too much of a lock on power and money for any insurgent campaign to succeed, especially an insurgent campaign driven by the anti-war majority in the country, many of whom who flocked to Obama's campaign because he was the only candidate left standing who opposed the war. I'm not crazy about Obama's actual policies on many issues--and I fear that his supporters are going to have to deal with considerable disappointment on some of them, if we manage to elect him--but I never, ever expected such a grass roots movement to arise this early in American Revolution II. It is the essential ingredient for reforming the country--an activated citizenry. And that they have achieved the nomination against an entrenched pro-war, pro-establishment is awesome.
It may be that the rigged voting machines are just laying in wait. The Bushbot corporations who own and control the 'TRADE SECRET' code in their innards STILL have the power to determine the results of any U.S. election. And maybe the fascists have some other scenario in mind. Look what they did to Jimmy Carter with the rigged oil crisis of that era, and the U.S. hostages in Iran incident. We're under the thumb of some real, real bad people, with enormous power over us. There are MANY things they can do to sabotage an Obama administration, and make way for Hitler II. Indeed, if you look at all the pending economic and foreign policy crises, you can read it as all set up to crash down on the head of a Democratic president.
The global corporate predators who are running things ran the really tough candidates out of the race. (I'm thinking particularly of Edwards, but also Biden, Clark and Kucinich). Obama is not tough in that way. He may be personally tough--he's certainly weathered a tough campaign, and weathered it well. But I mean in his analysis of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, and his potential dealings with the real powers--the war profiteers and multinationals, and the Saudi and Chinese U.S. debt-holders. It is a minefield, and if he tries to bust heads like Teddy Roosevelt, or truly reform the U.S. economy, like FDR did...well, the fact is that he isn't likely to do that--not if his stated policies hold true. He is not a reformer--or not a big reformer. But it may be irrelevant what he intends, if the fascist plan is to set him up for the fall. And then we will wish that we had a president like FDR who said: "Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred." Or like his cousin Teddy whose slogan was "Speak softly and carry a big stick!" Is Obama capable of wielding "a big stick" if he has to? I dunno. I really don't. Stay tuned.
But the fact that he has been catapulted into the nomination--and may well be catapulted into the White House as well--by this incredible political uprising that his campaign has become, is the real story. His supporters and what they have accomplished is the real story. And the fact that Hillary, with all of her advantages at the start, has kept her campaign going, despite its numerous mistakes and very bad decisions (such as hiring Mark Penn, a paid agent of a foreign government, Colombia, with one of the worst human rights records in the world), and despite her inability to stop Obama's insurgent momentum, is only a side story. Yeah, she's pugnacious. So what? Bush and Cheney are pugnacious. Pugnacious for what? --is the question. A lot of people can't see the "for what?" part--except personal ambition.
In hindsight, it's not all that surprising--that Clinton could not close the deal. But putting hindsight aside, it is amazing that she hasn't. And that is mostly due to Obama's dedicated grass roots supporters.
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