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Thread #133966   Message #3044061
Posted By: Little Hawk
01-Dec-10 - 03:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Obama a Big Disappointment...
Subject: RE: BS: Obama a Big Disappointment...
Well, this happens inevitably with presidents, it's happened before, and it will keep happening...because presidents don't work for you. They work for the people who fund their campaigns and who lobby the Congress. Those people are few in number, they're very, very rich, they own major corporations and banks, and you are not going to ever meet them or in most cases ever even know their names.

The job of a candidate IS to inspire you while he's running for office...so you will get out and vote for him. It's a sales pitch. Obama's campaign was about the most brilliant example of that which I have seen in my lifetime...it was an absolutely super sales job. People bought it. Now you are faced with the actual merchandise, and it doesn't match up very well at all with the sales pitch! Well....gosh....WHAT a surprise...!!! (extreme sarcasm) It should not really surprise anyone that this has happened. Sales is all about creating false expectations in people's minds. They believe whatever they want to believe, and you tell them whatever they want to hear. That's how it works. Then they elect you. Then it's right back to business as usual...for the ruling system and the ruling class.

Just like it was in Czarist Russia or Victorian England or any other entrenched power structure. The wealthy power elite rules. The rest of you get frustrated and angry and stay poor. The game goes on.