Move-On has an ad out in which a woman from the future attempts to persuade us to vote in a way that will head off the coming "Republicorp," which is the next step in our social evolution. Consider our future pledge of allegiance: "I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the multi-national for which it stands, one corporation, indivisible. . . ."
Anyway, I bring this up to try to clear up a major issue. Many Democrats are critical of Obama for having done so little. Yes, he's edging our troops our of Iraq and he passed a comprehensive but flawed health care bill and he got unemployment benefits extended and he saved General Motors, but there is a long list of jobs he's left unfinished. Why didn't he also do X, Y and Z?
The basic reason Obama did not do X, Y and Z is that he couldn't.
Those of us who think of the President as the most powerful person in America are living in the wrong century. There are probably a hundred corporate CEOs with more power over legislation than Obama has. The President's best hope has been to squeeze through some minor progressive adjustments. One step over that line, and his entire program would have been brought to an end by the Republicorp.
Does this mean that the Democrats are as corrupt as the Republicorp? Not hardly. If the Democrats are the same as the Republicorp, why have the corporations rained hundreds of millions of dollars on the teabagging Republican lackies in an effort to dump Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
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