The American electorate are flocking towards the Republicans - mind it, not abstaining, in case of Massachusetts - to right the all the wrongs listed below!
What a mindless fantasy! Leave aside the rather minor but inconvenient fact that Obama is no Kim Il Sung or Ayatollah Khomeini! He cannot act independent of the American Congress. And of course the Pentagon, the judiciary, the lobbyists, the media, the bureaucracy and above all huge burden of history and popular prejudice. And right from the day one, Rush Limbaughs of the US (some anti-Zionist champion!) are out to block every move of Obama. And a small success leads to a bigger one. And when not restrained by the US Congress: Quote The Obama administration's first year had several high points. Its early decision to ban torture immediately opened up distance from the Bush years. Its commitment to nuclear disarmament is unprecedented for a U.S. administration. The lifting of the global gag rule that restricted U.S. funding for family planning was a welcome shift in policy. The about-turn on missile defense bases in Poland and Czechoslovakia was a dose of common sense. Unquote He has talked of a world without nuclear weapons. Reopened dislogues with N. Korea. Brough down heat, at least to an extent, with even Iran. Visited Turkey, Egypt and China. Delivered greetings on the Iranian New Year to Iranian people. Personally piloted the UNSC Resolutio 1887 on nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. This is an utterly disturbing moment. Though not totally unanticipated. Conservative America reasserting itself. Only the rogues and morons would rejoice. Sukla On 21/01/2010, Feroze Mithiborwala <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Suklaji, > > Be assured, Obama is leading the Democratic Party for a major loss in the > Mid-term polls, next November. > > The simple reason for the same is that he has basically betrayed his mandate > & the immensely do-able promises that he made have all been put aside. > > Even on the simple issue of Torture he carries on with protecting the > Bush-line. Not once has he even made a pretense of fighting that line. > > He continues to promote wars & intervention under the guise of Islamophobia > & is playing the game of terror as did his predecessor. > > Look at the US role in Yemen, killing Houthi Shia Tribals & calling them Al > Qaeda. > > His drones have killed far more than even Bush managed. > > In Iraq, he has stated that 50,000 US troops will remain behind. > > On Iran we are heading for further sanctions. > > In Somalia, a Black African nation destroyed & Obama carries on from where > Bush left off. > > Worse on Palestine, the US is building a Steel Wall to complete the ring of > death that barricades 1.5 million Palestinian-Gazans'. > > Basically, Obama had the momentum, he had the People with him, he could have > gone directly to them. He never was going to - never because he has been > brought to power by the Zionist Lobby. > > His given task was to to portray a liberal & a peacenik, but within a year, > he stands exposed, more so in the US & increasingly across the world. > > Across Muslim countries, he has been written off a long time ago. nations & > Peoples who are facing the Genocides unleashed by Obama, tend to understand > the situation better than most. > > In fact even the Ayatollah Khomeini was far better than Obama - you should > discuss this matter with Asghar Ali Engineer sometime. > > Recently in Cairo, i met up with a lot of US activists (700 were present) & > they all have written of Obama as a major betrayal. There were others who > had no illusions about Obama whatsoever & had been clear from the start (as > I was) that Obama is a Zionist stooge. > > Regards > > Feroze > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Quote >> You have a choice now, Mr. President. With your help, 2010 could usher in >> a >> host of substantive policy changes: better health care access for millions >> of Americans, a strategic path to peace in Iraq and Afghanistan and a >> resounding series of Democratic victories in the midterm elections. >> However, >> if you stand aside and fail to challenge every shot, 2010 could give way >> to >> a fractured, crumbling Democratic Party - and the re-emergence of a >> vicious, >> feudal corporatism. >> Unquote >> >> Stupidest possible fantasy! >> >> Obama is no Kim Il Sung or Ayatollah Khomeini! >> He cannot act independent of the American Congress. And of course the >> Pentagon, the judiciary, the lobbyists, the media, the bureaucracy and >> above >> all huge burden of history and popular prejudice. >> >> If at all, he is to find a golden mean between arousing popular >> mobilisation and the raucous opposition that he faces and gradually master >> that. >> The stunning reversal in Massachusetts, signifying the reassertion of >> conservative America, makes his task tremendously more difficult. >> >> How can he just wish away the US Congress!? >> Hollow rhetorics are hardly any solution. >> >> But the battle is as yet hopefully not completely lost. >> >> Sukla >> >> 2010/1/21 <[email protected]> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.truthout.org/president-obama-remember-who-your-friends-are56226?print >>> >>> President Obama, Remember Who Your Friends Are >>> >>> Wednesday 20 January 2010 >>> >>> by: Staff, t r u t h o u t | Editorial >>> >>> In the wake of a crushing Democratic defeat in the Massachusetts Senate >>> race, we find ourselves faced with the one-year anniversary of a >>> spirit-changing day in the history of the United States, the inauguration >>> of >>> President Barack Obama. This odd confluence of events provides an opening >>> for a very timely warning: It is time to remember who your friends are, >>> Mr. >>> President. >>> >>> Your friends are not the suits on Wall Street, the same ones who fooled >>> Timothy Geithner for years. Your friends are not the timid centrists, who >>> Rahm Emanuel coddles. Your friends are not the giants of the mortgage >>> industry, who fought you tooth and nail to keep the foreclosure crisis >>> out >>> of the courts. Your friend is not George W. Bush, whose crimes you >>> continue >>> to conceal. >>> >>> Your friends are the progressives across this country, who, when you >>> asked >>> for their faith and inspired them with beautiful words, placed you on >>> their >>> shoulders and carried you to a historic victory. >>> >>> The progressive movement needs results - we're too smart to be placated >>> and spun. We're too cynical - and too determined - to compromise. And, >>> soon, >>> we'll be too jaded to believe that Democrats are anything but limp >>> windsocks, pointing whichever way the wind blows. >>> >>> Some have already walked away, according to a recent Daily Kos/Research >>> 2000 poll, which states that 45 percent of Democrats are not likely to >>> vote >>> in the 2010 election. >>> >>> We know that, in your heart, you're one of us. Your heart is the element >>> you seem to have forgotten, the element we miss. You used to wear it on >>> your >>> sleeve; we could hear it pounding in your chest when you spoke. >>> >>> We heard your heart during your 2002 speech at a Chicago antiwar rally, >>> when you called out the "arm-chair, weekend warriors" in Washington for >>> keeping our soldiers engaged in a "dumb war, a rash war." We heard your >>> heart during your 2004 keynote speech at the Democratic Convention, when >>> you >>> said of the American people, "They know we can do better." We heard it >>> beating loud and clear on New Hampshire Primary Night, when you spoke of >>> true progress, saying, "Whether we are rich or poor; black or white; >>> Latino >>> or Asian; whether we hail from Iowa or New Hampshire, Nevada or South >>> Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new >>> direction." >>> >>> And upon your inauguration, one year ago today, we dared to believe you >>> when you said, "The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to >>> choose >>> our better history." >>> >>> The right wing thrives on vitriol, hate and divisiveness. When the bile >>> they spew goes unchallenged, their disease infects the people around >>> them. >>> They will not lie down, Mr. President. You are going to have to put them >>> down - with true progressive action, not the frail rhetoric of >>> appeasement. >>> >>> No one has ever proclaimed a die-hard commitment to centrism. No one has >>> ever held a rally to support bipartisanship. Those are Washington DC >>> catchphrases that mean nothing, serving only as a fog for professional >>> politicians huddling together inside the beltway, too timid and too >>> immersed >>> in campaign logic to stand for anything. >>> >>> Your job is not to get re-elected in 2012, Mr. President. Your job is to >>> fight tomorrow and then fight the next day. If you're constantly looking >>> up >>> at the scoreboard, worrying about the outcome, you're going to trip over >>> your own laces. Watch the shot clock instead, and fire up three-pointers >>> like you know they're going to sink every time. Get in your opponents' >>> faces >>> and make them work for every single point. >>> >>> You have a choice now, Mr. President. 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