Emanuel, Geithner, and Summers, Bernanke, these are all men who, just like the huge banks, are all too big to fail in the present regime. These are very big, very rich men. Obama is afraid to fire any of them. So Obama is small compared to them, very small.
So we can see that yet another problem with the US is that the President can end up being just a little blip on the radar screen, especially if, like Obama, the president happens to be a wishy washy person who naively thinks that agreement regarding making the economy work for everyone can be reached with people whose only interest is for themselves and their friends to get richer at all costs.
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wawa January 27th, 2010 7:56 pm
It seems that you are the naive one for thinking that Obama is simply wishy-washy, and not an active part of the ongoing conspiracy against us.
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Not at all, I have repeatedly and since about March been ripping Obama for abandoning basically everyone who voted for him and for being way too far to the right. I've been extremely anti-Obama and I was one of the very first to predict that he will lose in 2012.
However, technically Obama is not fully part of "the conspiracy," as you put it, to destroy the US economy because the economy was essentially wrecked long before Obama even ran for President, and because he has been working mostly in the public sector over the years, whereas advisors such as Geithner and Summers are mostly private sector fortune seekers. If he is part of "the conspiracy," he is a johnny come lately.
It is possible that Obama is simply extremely naive and has not understood just how bad the economy is until perhaps recently. After all, other than in the 1930's, the economy has always bounced back and jobs have always increased after every downturn. Until now.
My point in my short comment just above (which suffered like all short comments from a lack of enough context) was that whether or not Obama is part of "the conspiracy," he suffers from lack of political courage and from political naïveté. His lack of courage is shown by his being afraid to fire anyone.
With regard to the naiveté, When Obama thinks he can make agreements with those who don't really care whether the economy and /or the health care system works or not (with those who definitely are part of “the conspiracy”) and then no agreements emerge, does it really matter whether Obama is conspiratorial or not? He isn't going to be successful even if he is not conspiratorial.
In other words, even if he is not part of "the conspiracy," he might as well be. Whether he is part of "the conspiracy" is technically irrelevant in Obama's case, given the fact that he puts way too much faith in right wing Democrats such as Ben Nelson and in even farther to the right Republicans. He has not understood up to the present day that politicians such as those are obstacles that have to somehow be overcome (for example, by threatening them with prospective assistance to primary challengers) rather than assets that he can work with. The economy and the society as a whole is simply too damaged for the likes of Ben Nelson and Susan Collins to be relevant anymore, other than to the rich of course.
The above is in response to this article.
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