You are quite correct, my deleted friend, the Obama administration is doing much the same as the Bush administration and all the previous administrations have done. It's cooperating fully with the great banks and the other huge financial interests that run this society for their own gain and it's doing exactly what benefits those interests. That's because the government is already so deep in hock to those financial interests with past debt that there seems to be no way out but to continue playing ball in the usual way. Besides, the politicians are mostly individually bought through incessant financial lobbying in any case. It's been happening that way for a long time. Matter of fact, it started way back in Woodrow Wilson's term of office.

The illusory division between Democrats and Republicans...or the Right and the Left...is a smokescreen that hides the real agenda. It's a very handy smokescreen for the controllers, because it keeps the public fighting with each other instead of abandoning those 2 political parties and taking up arms together against their real oppressors who are the great financiers...not the figurehead politicians who do their bidding. How can the public fight a faceless enemy? They don't even recognize it. They're rather fight over individuals like Obama and McCain...because those are public faces they can recognize, and that is where the public just gets lost in a huge media-spun illusion.

I fully agree that the many good and hope-filled people who voted for Obama have been had. The people who pinned their hopes on McCain/Palin have also been had...on the other side of the "divide and conquer" coin. I profoundly wish that it wasn't so.