Obama, the CIA, and the Limits of Conciliation

[LuvNewcastle]

49. We've been had. It was obvious from the start of Obama's Presidency.

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He picked Wall Streeters to run the Treasury Dept. Would a man who wants to bring us change choose his people to run the economy from among the people who drove it in the ground?

If you wanted real change for America, would you allow Wall Street to help write the legislation that would govern their activities? Would you allow insurance companies and Big Pharma to write your signature health legislation?

Does it sound like "change" when you allow the very people who have been the root of the problem all along to advise you on your most important decisions? If we can use Obama's history as a guide to predict the future, we'll have the CIA and NSA writing any future legislation that might curb some of their activities.

From what we've seen so far, I think we have to conclude that there was never any intent to give us any significant change in the way this country is run. You know, at this point, I'm not even sure it was possible. We saw the death of democracy in the 1960's or 70's, I believe. I think that's when the intel agencies took over our government, maybe as early as the Kennedy assassination. When that happened, it didn't matter anymore who we elected; the CIA et al. would keep things humming right along on the same course. That's why I think that the next revolution won't begin at the ballot box. How could it, when the people we elect aren't really in control?