Os Cangaceiros
23rd August 2011, 01:02
The usual turn from unsatisfying wars abroad to happier domestic conditions, however, no longer seems tenable. In these August days, Americans are rubbing their eyes, still wondering what has befallen us with the presidents debt deal -- a shifting of tectonic plates beneath the economy of a sort Dick Cheney might have dreamed of, but which Barack Obama and the House Republicans together brought to fruition. A redistribution of wealth and power more than three decades in the making has now been carved into the system and given the stamp of permanence.
Only a Democratic president, and only one associated in the public mind (however wrongly) with the fortunes of the poor, could have accomplished such a reversal with such sickening completeness.
One of the last good times that President Obama enjoyed before the frenzy of debt negotiations began was a chuckle he shared with Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric and now head of the presidents outside panel of economic advisers. At a June 13th meeting of the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, a questioner said he assumed that President Obama knew about the difficulties caused by the drawn-out process of securing permits for construction jobs. Obama leaned into the microphone and offered a breezy ad-lib (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/14/white-house-under-fire-for-shovel-ready-joke/): Shovel ready wasnt as, uh, shovel-ready as we expected -- and Immelt got off a hearty laugh. An unguarded moment: the president of hope and change signifying his solidarity with the big managers whose worldly irony (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/gottaservesomebody.html) he had adopted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/symptoms-of-the-bushobama_b_930260.html
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
Only a Democratic president, and only one associated in the public mind (however wrongly) with the fortunes of the poor, could have accomplished such a reversal with such sickening completeness.
One of the last good times that President Obama enjoyed before the frenzy of debt negotiations began was a chuckle he shared with Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric and now head of the presidents outside panel of economic advisers. At a June 13th meeting of the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, a questioner said he assumed that President Obama knew about the difficulties caused by the drawn-out process of securing permits for construction jobs. Obama leaned into the microphone and offered a breezy ad-lib (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/14/white-house-under-fire-for-shovel-ready-joke/): Shovel ready wasnt as, uh, shovel-ready as we expected -- and Immelt got off a hearty laugh. An unguarded moment: the president of hope and change signifying his solidarity with the big managers whose worldly irony (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/gottaservesomebody.html) he had adopted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/symptoms-of-the-bushobama_b_930260.html
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie