Obama: What kind of change can we expect?
Which leads me to wonder just how much more like JFK Obama will end up being in the end. There were some very powerful people who were very disappointed that Kennedy was elected and that he intended to end a war in which a very small number of people were reaping huge profits . Sounds hauntingly familiar to current events.
The only thing that will save Obama's life is to change his direction of "change" to the status quo while creating the illusion of "change" for the people. And with job losses and sky rocketing energy costs coupled with a stock market and housing market collapse, Obama will have a full time job just staying alive.
Journalist John Pilger recently compared Obama’s campaign to that of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and it is an apt description:Kennedy’s campaign is a model for Barack Obama. Like Obama, he was a senator with no achievements to his name. Like Obama, he raised the expectations of young people and minorities. Like Obama, he promised to end an unpopular war, not because he opposed the war’s conquest of other people’s land and resources, but because it was “unwinnable”…
The vacuities are familiar. Obama is his echo. Like Kennedy, Obama may well “chart a new direction for America” in specious, media-honed language, but in reality, he will secure, like every president, the best damned democracy money can buy.
Which leads me to wonder just how much more like JFK Obama will end up being in the end. There were some very powerful people who were very disappointed that Kennedy was elected and that he intended to end a war in which a very small number of people were reaping huge profits . Sounds hauntingly familiar to current events.
The only thing that will save Obama's life is to change his direction of "change" to the status quo while creating the illusion of "change" for the people. And with job losses and sky rocketing energy costs coupled with a stock market and housing market collapse, Obama will have a full time job just staying alive.
