Is Obama a Total Fraud?

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new york city, New York, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) August 5, 2011 -- Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and the political process. The debt ceiling fiasco is yet another illustration of Obama’s failures, not just because it’s a betrayal of his base and the American people, but because it further calls into question whether he’s a total fraud.

In Winner Take-all Politics, political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that if Obama had his way his first year in office would have rivaled FDR’s infamous first 100 days as a juggernaut of reform. The book, which offers an excellent analysis of how big business has completely hijacked the political system, leaves the reader with hope. It describes how corporate lobbyists have used the Republican Party to sabotage the political process and choke off all prospects for change. Hacker and Pierson claim that Obama may prove the first step in the direction of serious reform, the kind we saw in the early twentieth century with the progressive movement, culminating in the New Deal.

But upon a closer examination of the record, it becomes apparent that Obama’s intentions are not pure. It is true that the right has worked extremely hard to crush any Obama initiative, even those they would certainly have welcomed if they had been proposed by a Republican, such as health care reform, which is really a nation-wide version of Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan. As such, when it comes to measures such as the public option or eliminating the big banks, we can only blame Obama for not trying hard enough and perhaps being weak in the face of fierce Republican opposition. True he should have used his speaking skills to rally the public behind real reform, and the fact that he didn’t even though polls show the public supports universal healthcare and an end to Wall Street tyranny suggests he had an ulterior agenda. But it’s hard to gauge his sincerity with any certainty in those cases.

Nevertheless, when we consider how he has governed in areas that are entirely under his control it’s hard to avoid the fact that he has pursued extremely right-wing, dangerous policies. You can learn a lot about Obama’s true intentions by listening to Rep. Luis Gutierrez’ recent interview on democracynow! He explains how years ago Obama gave a rousing speech about how in his first year as president he would fix the broken immigration system and the crowd went wild. During Obama’s first year in office Gutierrez “sat down with the President for a little over an hour” to discuss using his presidential powers to give a workers permit to the million or so eligible immigrants and prevent children from losing their parents and the destruction of families in many other forms. When Obama failed to act Gutierrez sent him a letter urging him to fulfill his promise. The president replied with a “disingenuous” letter claiming he does not have the power. Shortly after Gutierrez sat with Obama in the Oval office and was told “Luis, we will not have an opportunity or the ability to pass any comprehensive immigration reform ’til after my reelection as president of the United States… we won’t be able to have the numbers.”

Another case in point is Obama’s economic advisers...

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http://thebloodycrossroads.com/is-obama-a-fraud/221027/

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