What Happened to Obama's "Changes," and Will Blacks Still Vote for him in 2012?

The following were in response to this article by Robert Scheer, which is about what happened to make Obama fail to provide hardly any of the change he promised.

Ian Kochera November 18th, 2009 10:27 am
The author plaintively asks, 'What's up with Barack Obama?'

Bob. May I call you Bob? I share your frustration about Obama, in particular with respect to his dealings with the financial sector.

To understanstand Obama, one has to go back to his youth. Read his book 'Dreams of my father' carefully again, and you are transported into the tormented world of a young Obama, with an absent yet demanding father who abandoned him and his mother to vie for prominence in Kenyan politics. That painful sacrifice might have been acceptable had his father succeeded in politics. But, and this is the crucial lesson of his father's life for Obama, he was driven to destitution because he dared to buck the preeminent power in the country - Kenyatta himself.

Fast forward to 2009 USA. The now President Obama grew up constitutionally incapable of bucking the powers that be, to risk walking in his father's shoes, to be driven from power and to fail. And in the US, the preeminent powers are the Wall Street titans and other elites, who Obama knows to be every bit as vengeful as Kenyatta of Kenya was.

I don't know if anyone as sensitive and introspective as Obama is capable of reconciling with memories of a father who fluttered into and out of his youth, and who is now long gone but hardly forgotten. For our sake, I hope he does, and soon.

AND A SECOND GUEST COMMENT:

pjd412 November 18th, 2009 1:07 pm
Me, I was just thinking that Obama is a classic 18-19th century Hamiltonian (the US "founding father")- only rich elites should be in charge of the deliberative process. It also has a bit of a medieval feudalist - "accept your lot in life" feel to it.

MY COMMENT TO THE SCHEER ARTICLE AND TO THE ABOVE TWO COMMENTS:
With each passing month it seems that Obama is rooted an unknown but increasing number of hundreds of years in the past. If the gesture was standing alone I wouldn't have said a thing, but his bow to the Japanese Emperor in conjunction with everything else Obama has done is notable, as it seems to be more evidence that Obama is indeed some kind of classic elitist type, plausibly up to and including being an elitist in the feudal mode. This type of character is not at all unheard of in Africa.
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In the same forum for the Scheer article, about what happened to make Obama fail to provide hardly any of the change he promised, the question came up: Will Barack Obama lose a lot of his black supporters in 2012? Here is how your Unity-Progress creator and producer answered this:

Obama will inevitably lose some amount of black support in 2012 compared with 2008; exactly how much is uncertain because there has most likely never been a combination of circumstances like these twisted circustances in world history.

But the number of black people actually validly registered and eligible to vote in 2012 as compared to 2008 will almost certainly be much less. The true, full black unemployment rate is approaching 40% and even black people can only go so long without income from employment before they either drop dead or become economic refugees with no fixed address and thus no good way to get registered to vote.