I fear the evil boyars will twist and divert kind czar's good efforts anyway. It always happens.

How about some domestic policy.

I want one of these for Christmas.

Oh, I forgot the whole schtik of the "Constitutional Scholar" just means that he studied the Constitution in order to best avoid it while doing whatever he wants. Just like George Fucking Bush (Yes, both of them). I'm looking at change.gov and I can't seem to find the part of the agenda on restoring legitimacy to the actions of the government. You know.. that the body created by the law to enforce the law actually follows the law? Hello? Anybody?

Never mind, back to your hopegasm.

change.gov job form
I applied for the position of Constitution Czar.

**Vote me for Constitution Czar** Change we can actually see!

Obama doesn't care what the plebeians think about his warmongering anymore than he cared what you thought about his support of the Bailout. The slaves were overwhelmingly against the Bailout, were ignored, and still voted for for the two stooges who pushed it through. Obomba will bomb and Liberate whomever his paymasters tell him to.

I signed about 4 petitions today mostly related to prior contributions and mailing lists, including yours.

Why not? It's literally the least I could do. :-)

It is disappointing about Rahm and Larry Summers, but I'm willing to give it a chance for at least 100 days into the administration to see what it's about.

Does anyone here in their right minds actually believe all these petitions and pledges and what-not is actually meaningful and effective means to pressure Obama to change what he always was, i.e., a deeply narcissistic, ruthlessly ambitious, power-hungry, centre-right, corporatist, imperial manager? To quote Mike Davis:

Waiting in the wings to define his first 100 days is a team of Wall Street statesmen, "humanitarian" imperialists, ice-blooded political operatives and recycled Republican "realists," which will thrill hearts from the Council on Foreign Relations to the International Monetary Fund. Despite the fantasies of "hope" and "change" projected onto the handsome mask of the new president, his administration will be dominated by well-known, pre-programmed zombies of the center-right. Clinton 2.0.

The guy was never the great Hope-and-Change-Messiah and Progressive Second Coming that the poor deluded Obama-cultists and Netroots thought he was. And I'm sure most people on this site didn't harbor such illusions, nothwithstanding Bernard Chazelle's desire to vote for Obama for "symbolic" reasons, but I think "that guy" is much more dangerous than simply being another corporatist, imperial manager Democratic party sellout. I posted this excellent article by Adolph Reed here a while back that distilled exactly why an Obama presidency would be especially dangerous for black people, not to mention a setback for actual progressivism because of the eagerness of smug, self-congratulatory white liberals to defend Obama's right-wing, anti-progressive tendencies and actually label them as the "new pragmatic progressivism"! Already, you're hearing blathering about how Obama's victory proves that America is a post-racial society and what-not, and that blacks need to drop the "politics of grievances" and be all non-threatening and non-angry like that model Negro Obama, and all it takes is hard-work, and of course, the right-wing's favorite catch-phrase - "personal responbility" for blacks to succed in a post-racial America!

hv: No, he'll be ABSOLUTLY no more dangerous to anybody or any special group than ANY run of the mill Democratic Sellout.

hv: No, he'll be ABSOLUTLY no more dangerous to anybody or any special group than ANY run of the mill Democratic Sellout.

Posted by Mike Meyer at November 7, 2008 11:32 AM

Well, I guess I'm convinced now! Thanks Mike Meyer, for that substantive and convincing rebuttal to my argument!

Seriously.. did you even try to read that article by Adolph Reed and try to understand the points I was making about why I think Obama is possibly even more dangerous than some run-of-the-mill corporatist Democrat?

hv: The problems YOU describe in this and other posts are DEMOCRATIC PARTY problems, to which Obama is tied by his party affilations. He's a TEAM player and the TEAM got him this election, he didn't do it by himself. His ideology is the DEMOCRATIC PARTY LINE, nothing he himself came up with. Every word, every angle long discussed, critiqued to the nth degree, Madison Avenue applied to politics to garner those votes, TEAM WORK. Just because he is black doesn't mean he can't be on the beam with the TEAM.

Yes, Democrats like John Kerry, who are unpersuasive and uncharismatic, are much less of a danger to us. Of course, Democrats like John Kerry don't win, leaving us with the Republicans, who are more of a danger to us.

What's needed is a Democrat who's just charismatic enough to win an election, but not so charismatic that he can persuade people to do things they shouldn't do.

When you find one of those, please let me know.