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In reply to the discussion: Bernie calls out Barack [View all]dotymed
(5,610 posts)by billionaires. Penny Pritzker and a cabal of elites took this junior state senator (an unknown), financed his election to federal senator and groomed him for the WH in a whirlwind style.
Their speech writer wrote what average Americans were desperate to hear (me too) after 8 years of Bush, PNAC and an increasing police state and unitary executive. Then a manufactured financial crisis was shoved down our throats (it could not have been a surprise to Summers or any insider). They easily got Obama on board with the looting of America.
Things went from terrible to even worse with the retention of the PNAC crowd after "our savior" ( I firmly believed) was elected.
Sadly Obama's actions were in lock-step with the billionaires who financed him.
Obama, who had campaigned against government secrecy, increased this practice and privately put a bounty on whistle-blowers.
The first black president, a man who gave the impression of standing with the masses (like FDR actually did) was so believable that he was sworn in and given the Nobel Peace Prize based on his promise. His actions in the preceding years have been the opposite of what average Americans expected.
The excuse of a House opposed to his every action, has, IMO been staged as Obama has willingly followed the script of corporatists
that have run "our" government since (at least) Reagan.
He has scorned Progressives (like Bernie) that were his perceived base, from the beginning. He even tricked Sanders into voting for the ACA (Bernie Sanders knew that Americans deserved more).
We still have many hopeful Americans who believe that in his final years as POTUS he will redeem himself and his legacy by taking Progressive action to help the masses and re-define the role of the wealthy in our society. There has been no sign (except when candidate Obama was up for re-election that this is a possibility.
Sadly, the chasm between haves and have-not's has drastically increased under his "leadership."