Ake:

Your inside track notwithstanding, it is, IMHO, completyely inaccurate to try and capture Mr Obama's nature in such a trivialized and shallow buzz-phrase.

Corporations have to be dealt with, in government. For one thing, it is from corporations that most people gain their pay. Cut that lifeline off and you are in serious trouble.

But Isuspect your barbs are directed against the unfeeling high-level inhumane decisions which are often used to characterize large corporations with their armies of suits, funny mindless argot, and their heavy handed lobbyists.

These, too, will be part of the Washington scene which will have to be dealt with. But assuming these powers will "capture" Obama and enslave him to their wills is really meretricious and simpleminded, I am afraid.

If you have not read "The AUdacity of Hope", please do--you'll understand the man better and will find he is quite aware of the kind of traps you are so certain he will be taken in by.


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