Obama is the Most Inept President Since Herbert Hoover

After 12 months of  a flaccid presidency and a democratic congress full of prostitutes, I would think President Obama would stop pretending and ask himself:  “what have I learned from this?”

The continuation of  torture and rendition programs, a renewed Patriot Act, a majority edge in Congress squandered, a State of the Union that will be forgotten in history, a totally screwed-up health reform plan engineered to fail that rewards insurance companies with bigger profits, an election in Massachusetts reflecting a national power loss to the Democrats which delivered on a silver platter power to a Republican bum to come up with even dumber solutions, an expanded military with a gargantuan budget which includes the global consolidation of military war garrisons, an expanded war with more to come, a crumbling national infrastructure with a reduction in social programs as a complement, along with lost jobs, lost homes and lost dignity.

The good old Bush Junior fun days of walking into doors and choking on pretzels are gone. The slapstick comedy up front and with Voldemort behind the scenes is over. Today’s ring master who delivers the Daily Theater platitudes in the White House is even more deceptive. He may talk the flowery rhetoric of change and hope to the populace with attention spans the length of a TV commercial to distract them for two minutes but there are people in America still living poor as dump dogs and relying on sewing up their own wounds with needle and thread bought or stolen from K-Mart. And the predatory 2% are still getting richer.

The American empire was carefully thought out by four men: Mahan, Brooks Adams,  Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt.  In the last 200 years or so we have had an oligarchic system in which men of property can do well and others are on their own. Or, as Book Adams put it, “ the sole problem of the ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority”.  Nothing has changed.

And it turns out the Democratic Progressive alternative is no alternative at all to the republican party of death and deceit.  Both sides are allowed to rule as long as they don’t mess with anything that matters.

A sharp ideological turn is coming. Although America bristles with sensible and logical options which our two major political parties can’t seem to grasp; like expanding the concept of Medicare into health reform or rebuilding infrastructure to provide jobs instead of useless wars and torture, there is not enough outrage in America of the kind that dragged the French aristocracy to the guillotine. And nor do most Americans grasp the reasons they keep electing the same bums over again. We elect presidents who work against our own interests and pack the Supreme Court with ideologues who now allow corporations to buy democracy.  Now no one can deny that corporations decide policy and that corporate control of the country seems inevitable.

And what has Obama even remotely tried to do to chip away at this monolith of  malefactors who are busy redistributing wealth from the bottom and the middle to the top?  Just talk is all.

And at the most token changes with little bite. I wasn’t expecting the changes Obama advertised but I was hoping he would have at least tried to fight against the status quo at the expense of losing a second term.  Now he has stupidly wrecked himself and may lose a second term anyway. He is like Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton who made it easier for the rich while the sham rituals of democracy continued as they employed the usual scapegoats;  gays, socialists, Arabs, immigrants and government, to take the blame. The crap covered the land, and still does today, disguised as fluff and patriotism to hide the huge illusion of the America Way.

People still seem to believe that problems can be solved if the parties sit down and rationally talk it over. This is no longer possible in an America where communication itself has become the problem, in an overcommunicated society where we “send” more and “receive” less.

But now the masquerade is over and the dumbed-down are waking up too late and all the defensives the plutocracy has tried to continue to dumb down the populace is wearing thin. If Americans have any backbone, that could only leave blood in the streets as the final solution.

I believe I am not alone in thinking that Barack Obama is not up to the challenges of the job and should be sent home as soon as possible.