Every time President Obama talks now, I sort of tune it out since I know his words, and his word, mean nothing. He is so captured by the plutocracy that you can't help but feel like a jilted spouse listening to the soothing words of the other spouse found cheating. So what if he's now "pivoting to jobs" in his rhetoric, or promising to pursue a more "balanced approach" when we enter the next phase of budget talks with the opposition? Does anyone believe, for a minute, that he will help end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy? Me neither. More, after the fold, since this goes to the heart of the matter....DIShonesty...
Let me ask you this.....Who's more dishonest? John Edwards, who treated Elizabeth horribly and lied about an affair that possibly even involved siphoning of campaign funds? Or Barack Obama who used all the right code words and great booming oratory in 2008 to enrapture us all, but really wasn't that into our causes? Rather, he was intent on helping maintain the status quo.
Who lied to more people?
We know that George W. Bush was the most egregious liar of all. He lied America into a war of choice. But it's clear now, at least to me, that Barack Obama has not been honest either, especially with his supporters who worked to get him into office. He used to end his stump speeches with "We're gonna change America, and we're gonna change the world." Yeah, right. Unless you think a status-quo plutocracy with ever more disparity in wealth distribution is change, I think that was a fairly empty promise. And I would bet you that he KNEW IT AT THE TIME.
Barack Obama PLAYED US. And he's still playing us by appearing on television and saying things to sooth our defeated spirits in the wake of the debt ceiling sellout.
I don't need to list all the other times Obama has done this to us since he first came onto the scene. It's almost a pathological pattern at this point. He likes to sound like he's on the side of working folks and against "millionaires and billionaires", but he has continuously refused to lay out the case or use his bully pulpit to show that wealth has been redistributed UP to the top 1%, and to fight to end the status quo. He doesn't cave, ladies and gentemen. He eases us into a stark reality that he will NOT be a change agent. He will talk the talk but, in the end, refuses to walk the walk. He'll be all the wealthier for it too, with a treasure trove of honoraria and donations to his library when he's out of office. He's completely complicit with the corporate owners of our government, and completely fine with it all. He doesn't have an incompetence problem, isn't dumb, and isn't sincere. He has simply got us FOOLED. Well, I'm not fooled anymore, and I'm sure most of you aren't either.
To me, that's worse than the atrocity of what John Edwards did since it's on a macro scale and harms untold millions of people. What Edwards did, bad as it was, really was a personal failing on a micro scale combined with possible corruption if campaign funds were used. To me, Edwards would have been better for America in the final analysis, absent this personal scandal of his.
So, I ask you.....do you agree? Is Barack Obama more dishonest than even John Edwards? Respond in the comments and in the poll...