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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (174340)	10/22/2011 1:52:19 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 541791

I just finished Suskinds book on Obama. It was not a hatchet job, Suskind seemed very fair to Obama; but I still am not sure what Obama is about. I learned a few things I think. Obama is very smart, a very good policy wonk and has many very good qualities. He is a bit like Carter. But we need a revolutionary and time will tell if he has that in him. He might? I wouldn't underestimate him. Obama to the end of the book kept saying the people didn't want more divisivness. But I think he is projecting his desires on the people. The people knew there was a cancer in our democracy (plutocracy-banks controlling our government) and Obama was hired to cut it out. The people voted for reconstruction, but Obama did not want to do that, he wanted to apply clever solutions i.e. solutions everyone is happy with. Pipe dream as I said all along. The rich control this country and have to be dealt with! Obama did seem to understand after a couple of years, leadership was more important than clever solutions. Obama still has Geithner because though he gave away the store he kept a second disaster from happening (so far) by kicking the can down the road. Obama was "afraid" to take on the banks. Afraid there might be a calamity. That is one theory why he filled his cabinet with Wall street types instead of academics. Geithner's rule was : "first do no harm". So that was and continues to be the excuse to do nothing about overhauling the banks, prosecuting bankers or anything else which might cause a lot of trouble. Geithner told Obama to not replace Bernanke with Summers (continuity again). Personally I don't like either one. One question we have to ask ourselves in judging Obama is the conflict he has with Nancy Pelosi. Is Nancy Pelosi out to lunch? I doubt it. So why the hard feelings between Pelosi and Obama? Pelosi said: "Obama and his group cannot see around corners. They anticipate nothing." Obama made the deal with Mconnell to extend the Bush tax cuts with a phone call at night bypassing eveyone, including the congress. Suskind says it was because folks in his administration could not come up with an answer, so he just made the decision himself. Extending the Bush tax cuts was continuity and avoidance of trouble again, and in the short term would do more good than harm. Geithner's rule. Now though, Obama has lost the middle and all he has left is the left. I think he can recapture the left and middle but he must fight the robber barrons like TR and FDR did or he will lose the next election if Romney is the nominee. He might be able to beat any other Republican no matter what.

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