re: mrmb, read the massive and fascinating link to Thierry Meyssan’s article on Sarkozy. It is like watching The Day Of The Jackal. Someone recently posted somewhere on Truthdig that there are a thousand people who have more wealth than the combined incomes of 2 billion. Was it not Voltaire who said that the first thing the rich try to do is to convince everyone that they do not exist? The control of the world’s heroin supply is most likely what the Afghanistan occupation is all about. Whether it is narcotics, weapons, or banking…control is essentially what it is all about. Thank you for posting the link. To paraphrase Meyssan: “when will Americans use their eyes?”

It is understandable why those in the ME would cool to Obama.  They, like many, were waiting for Obama to cinch the nomination and then run with it.  However, it becomes increasing apparent that this will not be the case.

Since receiving the nomination Obama has shown that he is not interested in justice, civil rights or the peoples of the world.  I will not vote for Obama.

To continue down this path of abject hypocrisy is beyond belief, especially when one considers the overwhelming national and international support of those who rallied for Obama’s candidacy.

I would love to claim Obama a fool, and thereby assign him some “saving grace”.  But the facts certainly paint a different picture.  Obama has chosen to advance the interests of those who seek unrestricted power and the domination of whom the psychopaths consider the lessor.

Just another Rovian-type stoolie in the long list of opportunists who prostrate themselves to moneyed interests while the people of the world, including us, suffer and die.

Well, I said it before and I will sadly repeat again: Barack Obama, no less than any other American politician before him, is an opportunistic power-seeker. Neither him nor McCain are really motivated by service to the country or to humanity at large. 

However, possibly more than other politician before him, his two distinctive trademarks are his big sounding rhetorical skills combined with a high level pandering to those whom he thinks can make a significant difference in electing him, namely the corporate-elitist establishment, the Zionist Lobby and the disillusioned masses.

Using these two Machiavellian tools, he might have a chance at the American presidency. However, precisely because of these two skills, he will never rise to the status of a world statesman. 

One of Obama’s most lasting negative legacies, whether elected or not, will be that he contributed to the continuation of the political cancer I call “pandering,” when, in fact, any positive change to the lowly status quo must start with removing such cancer from the body politic with a heavy dose of moral principles.

So if you’re looking for a candidate whom you wish to bring about a real positive change to the degraded world of American politics, don’t look for that neither in Obama nor in McCain! They are like two sides of the same coin that view the world only in the narrow terms of white and black! Their legacy will most likely be limited to polishing up the white or the black side of the same coin they represent.

The strange thing about political pandering is there are people in the world who do not know it as such. When Senator Obama speaks of Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital and escalating the occupation in Afghanistan, there are plenty of people who take him at his word and do not like what they hear.

We have two choices, Obama or McCain and I’m voting for Obama. But when will this country elect a president who will not receive his marching orders from AIPAC? Obama says he’s candidate for change but I do not see that change as of yet.