Buyer’s Remorse: Obama positions himself as the Candidate of No place Else to Go

“The yearlong joke that was the Democratic primary battle is now over. It is official. Barack Obama offers absolutely nothing new except well executed political strategy. The grand political rallies/come to Jesus meetings were nothing more than political theater and viral marketing on an off the charts scale. It is true that thousands of people became involved in politics through the Obama campaign, only to be told now that he represents the same old same old and that they had better accept it and shut up.

The Obama campaign slogan ought to be “Never give a sucker an even break.” It isn’t clear which sight is more painful to watch, the progressives who fell for the hype and are now heart broken or the cynics who knew the game all along and now applaud the campaign’s increasingly rightward shift”

Looks like a quote from one of us old bitter white women right?  Nope.  It’s from the Black Agenda Report. This great cartoon is from there also.

source:  http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=682&Itemid=1

This is the punch line:

“If there were any true political organizing in American politics, the Obama sham would be seen for what it is. Instead corrupt Democratic leaders sell snake oil, and the rank and file go along in confusion or succumb to paralysis out of fear of electing John McCain. Because progressives never fought the good fight amongst themselves, they still don’t know what their agenda ought to be, or worse yet, they don’t even know they should have one. Falling for high flown rhetoric became a substitute for hard headed political decision making.

So we now have the Al Gore and John Kerry campaigns all over again, albeit with more charisma and a better campaign. The fact that Obama has a better campaign means that he is more likely to win. The fact that he is just another bought off Democrat with a constituency who refuse to make demands means that his term will be like that of the last Democrat. In January 2009 we will have an even slicker Willie in the White House.”

Let me point you to further criticism of Obama.  This coming from the Black Commentator.

“Now, there is a man who would be the colored Emperor of the de facto U.S. Empire; Barack Obama, the most singularly dangerous threat to Black America, and the planet as a whole. Masquerading as a man of peace when in fact he is a corporate / military representative of war. The same man who has thrown Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his entire church, and the Palestinian peoples under the crushing wheels of the proverbial bus of political expediency and opportunism. No critically thinking person of good will, be they Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, or White should be surprised when this man sets out to sacrifice us on his alter of political opportunism and hypocrisy.

Nevertheless, this Wall Street-backed, pro-apartheid Zionist Barack Obama could not do successfully carry out his aims without the complicity of neo fascist 21st Century white so-called liberals / progressives such as media personality Amy Goodman and company, who have for over a year now have been among his active cheer leaders. These are people, who like certain French collaborators with the Nazis in occupied Paris of the 1940s, think they can eat their cake and have it too. These are people who always stop short of clearly and concisely calling for what is really needed in the U.S.; and that is total and complete systemic change: a people’s revolution. These are people who clack on and on about certain select injustices in the U.S. and elsewhere while reveling in their own color and class privilege and simultaneously being undeservedly revered by some as politically “progressive figures.”

source: http://www.blackcommentator.com/282/282_kir_if_you_support_obama.html

Today, Obama threw NARAL and the promise of an immediate pull-out from Iraq under the bus while campaigning in North Dakota.  Here’s a discussion of the Pro Choice Flip flop from Talk Left:

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/7/3/20917/25581

I was just watching AC 360 and the MSM are all over the backpedal on Iraq.

However, I’ll return to the Black Commentator for their perspective.

“U.S. Senator Barack Obama has planted his feet deeply
inside the Iraq war-prolongation camp of the Democratic Party,
the great swamp that, if not drained, will swallow up any hope
of victory over the GOP in next year’s congressional elections.
In a masterpiece of double-speak
before the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, November
22, the Black Illinois lawmaker managed to out-mush-mouth Sen.
John Kerry – a prodigious feat, indeed.”

source:   http://www.blackcommentator.com/161/161_cover_obama_iraq.html

Notice the date?  They’ve been cognizant that Obama takes expediency to an entirely new level.  There are a large number of African Americans who know they’ve been under the Obama bus for some time.

How about No Quarter’s Larry Johnson’s take on the Iraq flip flop:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/03/obama-the-fast-change-bamboozler/#more-3420

Now, will the rest of you wake up before the Denver Convention and prevent the error of making him the nominee?

Can you say buyer’s remorse?

As we say down here in Lousiana … Somebody got some splaining to do!