JuanJo—An Af Am DLC member, who is advocating more tax cuts for business, has decided to keep “fighting” the “war on terror”, and is having a religious fundamentalist give the “sermon” (is that what it is? Never mind—dont care) at the inaugartion—is dramatic “change”—how??

Whose idea that the ‘Merkin dream” is just more of the same, with a few people richer, capitalism without walls, trade with no regard for people, more “free market”, ,,,

If P Obama holds the Bush Team accoutanable for war crimes, cuts the military budget, reverses the tax cuts, for starters, that will be change. Until then its just samo/samo.

I think that we need a reconsideration of our values, instead of trying to “re-energize” the old “America on top” crap. It wont happen anyway. We’re too broke. It could be made easier , if we would stop trying to force out nightmare down everyone’s throats.

Blah, blah, blah, watch me write because I have nothing better to do and I can’t accept that some monumental change is about to happen… I might even have to find a real job and become productive to help the economy.

Obama is a cult leader.

MeHere—it is like “hope”—what the hell does that mean? That you dream of things that never happen? The US is hardly in a situation to be doing that!

It is time to let that phrase go! It implies no action whatsoever.

I just see another conservative DLC and years and years of paying off Wall St, fighting more wars, and enriching the pockets of the haves and havemores.. ..

I believe “this article is useless,” as someone said in a previous comment.  And I think Bilejones summed it up when he said that power was the motivating factor in Obama’s quest for the presidency.  The article refers to Obama’s “audacity.”  The dictionary defines audacity as “fearless daring,” nothing more than that—it doesn’t refer to the way audacity is applied. Lots of empty statements.

Obama was comfortable to run a campaign within the framework of the two-party system.  He also accepted to debate in the same way. He hasn’t said anything that qualifies him as audacious in terms of the serious problems this country faces. His idea of “change"just means “tidying-up,” at least so far. But I don’t blame him—he is merely representing the position of the voters.

E.J. Dionne—“But Obama’s anti-ideological turn is also functional for a progressive, at least for now.”

Krugman and other progressives wouold disagree. The last thing he need to do is kiss up to conservatives more. They are starting to love him a little too much. Maybe he ought to run at GOP in 2012

” Since Ronald Reagan, ideology has been the terrain of the right. Many of the programs conservatives pushed were based more on faith in their worldview than on empirical tests. How else could conservatives claim that cutting taxes would actually increase government revenue, or that trickle-down economic approaches were working when the evidence of middle-class incomes said otherwise?”

Indeed. So, not reversing the tax cuts, and adding more, will NOT be “trickle down” how?? Oh, yeah, unemployment and food stamps! Well, we need revenue for that. The Govt Budget Office saya that the Number one reason for our lack of revenue is—tax cuts!

“make pragmatism and experimentation the enemies of conservative ideology. Obama, wearing a smile as he stands on a mountain of data, is doing the same.”

????

So, some, say, on social security or Medicare will face cuts, while EVENTUALLY, the rich may get their taxes back to where they were in the 1990’s??

And the rich “sacrifice” in this how??

How was lunch with Krautthamer??

I think that this is disgusting. PE Obama’s “economic policy” is very conservative.

HOw about Mitt Romney for VP in 2012

Obama speaks with a forked tongue, one side red and the other blue, against the majority of non-partisan voters who would prefer honesty and proper peace policy and someone who is able to honestly defend the U.S. Constitution in the best possible way, with sanity, safety, friendship to the world as proper peace, and a budget on track using taxes for people, not corporate corruption war not wanted.

Obama is catering to the media who believes money lies in war and corruption and ignoring the truth of an election where the proper contest is supposed to be put before the PEOPLE who are the RULE not the President.  The agenda wanted by the people is the mandate that is supposed to be voted for at the ballot box, and when the countries politics fails to deliver as shown by those in office the proper result of an election is REAL CHANGE, not the lies of a hypocrit netting corrupt hype and a lazy public thinking the media must know what they are doing, so they can allow the RED and BLUE states turning a country PURPLE as if the media is right and not the public opinion.

I object to Obama’s hypocrisy.  His “philoosophy” is cowardice and hypocrisy is believed by the listeners.

I heard him during the exit interview by Tom Brokaw, and was disgusted with both Obama and Brokaw.  “Unmanned planes” getting permitted against Pakisatan by Pakistan?  Brokaw asked it as if it was supposed to be the authority of Obama from the majority rule approval, knowing full well there is NO SUCH APPROVAL coming from Pakistan and SHOULD NOT BE from voters, and should be reprimanded by the United Nations as very against international law, and IF Obama insists on military increased offensives that are clearly not recognizeable in the U.S. Constitution, IF Obama is allowed by the public to continue autocracy introduced by Bush, the United States will be seen as dismantled, not upholding a democracy according to law, and should be TOLD the consequences.  No recognizeable functional government, and no membership until and unless that happens.  Peace is REQUIRED for international support, certainly.

Increased military is the action of a coward when the U.S. is out of line as the worst in the world.

Biggest is worst when it comes to nuclear weapons.

This is not a point of confusion!

I am wondering if the public is capable of proving their disatisfaction of the media propulsion of anti-democracy for elections and Oaths of Office and pretense of no honest policy visible and certainly no philosophy that would be embraced by any sane person.

I like Buddhism, myself.

Christianity is full of hypocrits and liars and murderers which is not allowed in any religion.

God as known in all religions prohibits killing.

International law protects invasions of any sovereign country unprovoked.  Afghanistan did not declare any war against the United States, neither has Pakistan, neither has Iraq, neither has Iran.

The U.S. Constitution does not allow Obama to declare unprovoked war nor did it allow Bush.

Obama is not showing the supposed change people supposedly voted for.

I voted for Ralph Nader but knew the media was required to present the proper facts for an informed public and proper challenge to incumbents in office.

the media blatantly refused and offered PURPLE instead of freedom.

so im sitting next to a couple of guys in a bar tonight and i can overhear their conversation.  a tall, blonde, obviously semi-drunk fellow is gushing over the inauguration.  ”  this is the biggest thing since the civil war…no since the revolution.  this is going to change everything.  our first black president.  no more excuses, no more excuses.  its a new day and we just need a change.  im a republican but i voted for him because we just need a change.  the most intelligent man in 20 or 30 years as president.  a friend of mine is going to d.c….blah blah blah blah

im really having a hard time talking with 95 percent of the population right now.  there are these weird narratives that they deliver about obama, about I/P, about everything.  i guess thats what happens when you start to open your eyes to whats really happening.  its as if you and everyone else are living in two different worlds.  there is a huge battle going on right now between democrats and republicans over this phantasm which is the mainstream conception of what obama is.

what does it mean to be “the most liberal senator” when the bandwidth of senators is measured in centimeters?  how can obama be a socialist when very few have a dictionary based understanding of that word? 

in must be frustrating for obama to be prostrating himself at the alter of status quo, corporate servitude, and not be recognized as a fellow worshiper among the card carrying membered masses.

its like a magician.  ignore what he’s saying and watch the hands.  i knew all i needed to about obama when he fisa’d progressives last summer.

i’d like to third the emotion that this article is
useless.  abe lincoln?  f.d.r.?  lets compare this guy to g.w.b.  lets compare this guy to mccain.  i truly believe mccain may have been less militaristic and more progressive in certain areas
than obama.

Alan G, I went to the article by James Petras on information clearing house, thank you….Also went to the Information Clearing house site, it’s fantastic! Also went to Petras’s web site, it’s wonderful too! It’s interesting to me, that I am learning more, getting more news and information from the posters on the comment sections of Truthdig than the articles, as a general rule…There are some very very intelligent, well informed, individuals who comment here, thanks to all!...EJ Dionne is part of the WA Post Writers Group, and is trying to pay the bills, I guess???(for all I know!) like all of us, but this article is just another propaganda piece for Obama…The Key Buzz word, circulating on all major news media sites is that Obama is like/simular to FDR…AAHHH “The Great Depression” campaign is a GO…There is a obvious massive propaganda campaign to identify FDR with Obama, “The Great Depression” With the “Not So Great Swindle and Total Take Over of American Tax Slaves, and Global Domination For Hire Recession Corporation!!!” In reality this comparison is a pretty good one, because FDR was one of the early pioneers of corporate ownership and NWO, Obamo is our new Corporate Front Man…I am so sorry to say and admit that I was suckered into voting for Obama, I am thinking that the negative campaigning on McCain’s part, the choice of a radical right wing, bible thumping Born Again for vice pres was choreographed too!  I mean Palin was a deal breaker, and I wondered why in the world McCain would choose a VP candidate that is so radical and inappropriate for the position…Maverick my butt, well I suppose maverick in terms of Disney Image creator machine!!!I don’t need to see Obama, the President Part II, In office, it’s clear who he is, by his appointments…No need to hold my breath…I will never ever ever vote Democrat again, ever, or Republican, which has never been an option for me anyway…There is a You Tube film “The Mike Wallace Interview with Aldous Huxley 1958 parts 1, 2 and 3” that clearly explains the manipulation/control/brainwashing campaign that is going on with all of us in all media, including the “Liberal” ones….Huxley wasn’t a sci-fi writer, as much as a deeply intelligent, intuitive gifted visionary,  who saw/knew what was coming, what was being created…I personally think that he knew that no one would believe him if he spelled it out as a current work in process (a reality) He wrote “Brave New World” under the guise of sci-fi, where it really is a warning to human kind about propaganda, and social engineering.  I am sure this is nothing new to anyone who gravitate towards alternative news site, even when they are becoming more and more of a mainstream propaganda machine…It’s all about the money I suppose, ya, and if it weren’t for the truthdig posters I wouldn’t have as much information open to my inquiring mind!!!! Lately the article on Truthdig, have been very very overly transparent propagandyish! I hope Truthdig gets paid to put these articles on their site, they don’t work well, and they actually create some very good conversations about what is really going on… Anyway if you have not seen this interview it’s worth a watch…It’s amazing how the Obama campaign chant/mantra went from “Yes We Can” to “No you can’t”, or even more accurate, “Oh,Yes I CAN”, and “You’ve been Had!”....Thanks for the links, the education, and hey if it weren’t for Dionne’s lame sad piece of non informative propaganda, I wouldn’t have read the comment section (Maybe???)