I would've voted for Obama back in 2008...if I was an American. I would've figured him a far better choice than McCain. However...I would have been mightily bothered by how the Democratic Party shut Dennis Kucinich out of the later TV debates and made sure that his message was pretty much screened out of mainstream media, since it was so embarrassing to all the other Democratic frontrunners. And I would have been mightily bothered by Obama's evident enthusiasm for continuing a pointless war in Afghanistan.

And I would have waited with a mixture of hope and trepidation to see what Obama would do once in office...hoping that he might actually turn things around...fearing that he wouldn't.

And I would have been VERY disappointed by what he did do once in office as the last 3 years of folly unfolded!

And I would have thought, "Well, still probably better than McCain. But what a friggin' mess this is!"

Which just goes to show, no matter which one of those parties you elect, you wind up with the same corporate disease right back in office, the same foreign wars, the same payoffs and financial chicanery, the same lies and propaganda and ripoffs and deceit....but a different presidential "face" out front yapping about it behind a bunch of microphones.

I think Obama may be a nice guy, certainly an intelligent guy...but he's working for a criminal system, and he's doing what that system requires of him.