Reply #210: I Don't Think Obama can Save Us [View All]

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We're progressives, we eschew things like military power so we don't become trained killers. We believe in education, healthcare and using the government to help people, not destroy, so we become teachers, nurses and work at the local government welfare offices.

But we underestimated our "political" rivals. They own the real instruments of power: the military, the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, NSA, DIA...the secret service.

Bush isn't smart enough to have fabricated this war, the neocons did it. They brought him an NIE and told him Saddam was a threat so he said, "Golly, that sounds bad," and so he sent us to war. He didn't build the camps, the neocons brought him a "government study" put it on his desk and told him it would be good to sign it and so he did.

In 19 more days we change presidents...but the generals, agency directors and "governmet experts" are still there. Oh sure, Obama can change many of the appointable positions but could he really fire the entire genreal staff? Imagine the howling coming from Limbaugh and his accomplices in the media. They would cast Obama as the no-service-neophyte-neutering-our-honorable-military-worse-than-Jimmy-Carter. He would be impotent by 2010.

So these neocons take our new president, sit him down in something called a transition briefing. They tell him that, no, he will not be interrupting their little war. In fact he better keep the old SecDef hanging around (can you imagine if Rummy was still lurking about and Obama was made to keep him?). He has to keep the recently promoted Petraeus and the rest. You see, that makes Obama complicitous. You can't prosecute the old regime and its flunkies for war crimes if you are maintaing the exact same illegal occupation and military operations. Then they tell him he needs to shut-up about Gitmo and "enhanced interrogation techniques" or he's going to get a taste of what Bush got on 09/11/01 and he'll be blamed because of his "bleeding-heart liberalism" allowed Amurika to be attacked thereby ruining the cons record of no-more-9/11's. You'll get worse than that caribou Barbie bitch in 2012. They'll put an outright, frothing warmonger out while running continuous loops of the "devastation at OBAMA'S ground zero" worse than any tightly parsed clips of Rev. Wright.

And if Obama still really--REALLY--doesn't want to play ball? Maybe he tries to back-channel the cons and go to congress to cut their money flow by redirecting it to civilian work projects or cutting the military budget to build more schools.

Well, we got lots of right-wing fundie macho mysogynist testosterone junkies that have been undergone intensive "psychological screening" and "trainging" and making sure they are "team players"; and then the cons give them guns and vests and and radios and they tell Obama, "they're going to guard you...and your wife...and your daughters." It'd be a shame if they slipped-up and didn't jump in front of that skinhead meth-addict in time. Accidents happen you know. I mean sometimes even shoes can get through...

...right?