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In reply to the discussion: I will tell you why Maddow's "Hubris" aired NOW and not back then. And you won't like it. [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)...and one for which I do not have an answer. All we can do is guess.
However, I do know this. Obama was not a Washington insider. He had only been in DC a short time, in the Senate. I remember reading a piece in Time about his unwillingness to play the DC cocktail circuit. He worked out a lot and spent tie with his family and avoided the big-time social game. You know the parties with the power brokers from both parties and their corptastic friends in high places.
Also, I remember during the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama released his "Blueprint for America" which contained his plans and policies that he would implement if he was elected. It was a thick booklet and I read it cover to cover. The booklet contained a couple of paragraphs on restoring Habeas Corpus, which Bush snatched from us. Basically, the government can charge you with a crime without "a body of evidence" and Obama thought this issue was important enough to mention and put in his "blueprint."
Most people don't know what Habeas is. They also don't know that it has been taken away. This is a rather obscure reference, but Obama thought it was important. He wanted it back. I don't think a man/politician who thinks that way is on the inside of the rotting corpse that is the neocons.
Once elected, Obama did the opposite. His Justice Department had the opportunity to take a stand--with a case--and reinstate Habeas. Because of this, I have come to believe that whatever this cancer is that has metastacized in our government, it is bigger and more powerful than the President. I think Obama fights it, but really, I think there is little that he can do. Of course he can do some things, but all of this nefarious crap--drones, illegal wiretapping, assassinations, torture. This is the work of the neocons. They're entrenched.
That's they way I see it anyway. I don't think Obama would be nominating Hagel if he was in on the joke. Hagel is one of the very few politicians (that includes Dems!) who stand up and publicly refuse to kow tow to Israel. That means he won't help the neocons perpetuate their Middle East warmongering. I think that's paradigm shifting.