Sawzaw...Bobert may be under the false impression that only the Republicans are allied with the corrupt forces he calls "Boss Hawg" (meaning the rich corporate elite)...and that the Democrats are not, but most of the world outside the borders of the USA knows perfectly well that your rich corporate elites fund and control BOTH of those parties AND determine your foreign and domestic policy no matter which one gets elected.

Why would anyone be surprised that they funded Obama in 2008?????    They fund all of your presidential candidates, and the one who appears most handy to market and elect at any given time is the one who gets the largest share of their funding...and the one who then wins the election.

In 2008, that was Obama. In another election year, it may be a Republican. Or it may not. They'll happily back either horse, because both horses work for them.

Now, look...Bush and Cheney did a marvelous job for your corporates and your military-industrial establishment in the 8 years Bush was in office. They helped make the richest people richer and they royally screwed everyone else. But by 2008 their image was totally wrecked in the eyes of both the world and the American public. They had by that time shown their true colors in a way that was plainly obvious to most people, and their time was up. They had made the Republicans virtually unelectable (for the moment), and the financial crisis put the final nail in the Republican coffin...for the moment.

So it was time for the rich elites to bring forth a completely different looking alternative from the Democrats...Obama...to restore hope and enthusiasm to a weary and very disillusioned electorate. Very brief hope and enthusiasm! But that's all that is needed to win an election...a brief flush of new hope and enthusiasm.

Boss Hawg advanced a new servant in the form of Obama...got him elected brilliantly by making everyone think he represented "change"!

He did not represent change. He just looked like he repesented change. What he truly represented was lots more of the same. More war. More collusion with bankers and corporates. More assaults on your civil rights.

Bush gave you the Patriot Act. Obama has given the the NDAA...even worse than the Patriot Act. Bush was a wolf in Republican clothing. Obama is a wolf in Democratic clothing. And they both work for the very same interests.

Your endless partisan squabbling with Bobert is hilarious....and sad...because neither one of you can see outside the ancient cage of your 2-party divide. You're like a couple of Russian Communists fighting over whether to support Andropov or Brezhnev or Chernenko...while never questioning the basic rottenness of the political/military system that controls ALL of them.

And you just don't get it. You're trapped in your old mythology. You think it'll just be okay if YOUR party wins and the other one loses. It won't be okay, because they both sold out a long time ago. They're both run by liars, bankers, the big corporations, and the Pentagon and the weapons industries, and the only reason you've even got 2 parties anymore is so they can control you by playing off the supporters of one party against the supporters of the other.

That's the game. They win...you lose...every time. Your arguments with Bobert are an exercise in futility for both you and him. As are your elections. Nothing could make your bosses happier than keeping you, the little people, endlessly arguing with each other over partisan loyalties....while they walk off with the great prize: the power to rule over all of you. "Divide and Conquer" is their mantra, and it works every time.