I have this little tiny desperate hope that Obama isn't disingenous and dishonest like virtually all the other politicians who run for president or for other high positions in the government...

But it's just a tiny hope I have. I figure it's a slim chance. Better than no chance at all.

I have no hope whatsoever that McCain and Clinton are not disingenous and dishonest.

Furthermore, I know one thing. EVERY politician who runs for president is FORCED to be disingenuous and dishonest to a great extent while they are campaigning, and probably after they are elected. They are forced to pose for the public and the media. They are forced to say the things that are considered acceptable, and avoid saying what no one wants to hear.

That's because if they were totally honest and told the truth about everything there would be a public meltdown, a collective nervous breakdown, the great danger of a violent revolution, and the people really in charge behind the scenes in the $ySStem would kill such a politician who had the guts and honesty to do that. And they'd do it with very little hesitation or delay. And it would look like some lone maniac did it.

So, of COURSE Obama is being disingenuous to some extent. He can't NOT be disingenuous when he's running for high political office in the USA.

It is required of all Democratic and Republican candidates to be systematically disingenous and dishonest...or pay the price: political and professional suicide.

If we were living in genuinely free societies, that would not be the case...but we are not. We have all been socially conditioned from the time we were toddlers to be about 99% compliant in consenting to our own mental slavery...and that of those around us.

We are simply considered to be "consumers". As long as we keep spending enough money and buying enough stuff, we are considered of some value to the $ySStem. At such time as we have no further ability to spend money and buy stuff...or no inclination to...we are considered worthless and wholly expendable.

Nothing can change that except a revolution. There are many possible forms of revolution. They don't all involve guns and violence, but they do all involve a majority of the people in a society saying, "No, I will not do that anymore, and you can't make me."