Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Some Very Bad Politics From The White House

[carolinayellowdog]

61. World leader vs. national leader; conflicting feelings

On ONE HAND-- Dubya was such a provincial idiot, so destructive of our international reputation, that it was a huge relief to see Obama succeed him and repair the damage. And all the Kenyan Muslim birther BS was such obvious racist crap that it created huge sympathy for him from most of us.

On THE OTHER HAND-- the Hawaiian grandson of a bank vice-president, raised partly abroad and only fully part of the mainland US scene in college and thereafter, might be missing something important in terms of real empathy with the real struggles of poor people in this country. And the clueless tone-deafness of late makes me more worried about the Hawaiian-Indonesian bank VP grandson worldview than about the Kenyan Muslim stuff which is just BULLSHIT. Still-- is he one of us, does he really care about us, or does he want to sacrifice our well-being for some global vision of international capitalism? Just thinking/feeling out loud here but there is defininitely a trust issue the TPP brings into focus.

Bill Clinton is very solidly established in the echelons of world leaders, and Obama is headed there. It is hard to see Hillary as able to care about the "little people"-- and this latest news from the UK about Messina helping the Austerity gang further crush the workers only adds to that.

Bernie Sanders seems SO much more credible as a leader who cares about the real struggles of ordinary Americans-- but what about his ability to be "leader of the free world" whatever the hell THAT means anymore?