Time Running Out For Obama

I want this president to succeed. I want this symbol of US social and racial progress to go down as a success.

But he's not going to do it if he keeps trying to do favours for Wall Street. Barack Obama learned how to play the game. He's ridden the shoulders of the giants of the Civil Rights Movement to the highest office in the land but he could not have done that if he hadn't been so expert about playing the US capitalist-political game as well as he did. But the game has changed. The old rules have failed.

He has done nothing during this financial crisis but water-down necessary public policies to win the acclaimations of revolting morons and talk bullshit about bank bailouts. He risks the USian and the world's economy and he risks becoming a symbol of the enemy in the minds of the people who would be his greatest allies.