From Bush To Obama: It's Deja Vu All Over Again

Asserts Elizabeth Wright, a conservative blogger: "What a remarkable journey these last three years have been. Those of us who, under no circumstances, would have voted for Barack Hussein Obama, are not shocked by what we're now witnessing. Some of us are, nevertheless, mildly surprised at the turn of events. I guess we expected The Great One to abide by his endlessly referenced mandates for 'change,' if for no more than appearance sake, to mollify his constituents and fans. As it turns out, most of his constituency is unfazed that the Warmonger-in-Chief and Peace Prize fraud has stripped off his mask."

She continues her commentary: "Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report, and an unapologetic man of the left, disdained Obama right from the beginning. Even before the beginning. Viewing Obama, the candidate, in early 2008, as no more than a symbolic tool who was being 'imposed on the African American polity by corporate forces in the Democratic [P]arty,' Ford denounced those whom he called 'unprincipled Black Left misleaders,' who willingly contorted their politics 'beyond recognition.' Ford detected the imperialist hawk in Obama, in spite of The Great One's early declarations to the contrary. In a recent column, he writes about the 'legions of Obama-smitten activists' who shut down their antiwar activities for fear of harming the Hero's presidential prospects. This Hero who presumably shared their abhorrence of the chaos that the Bush machine had perpetrated on our country and the world. Or had these deluded souls simply gotten themselves ensnared in the well-known trap of the lover, who invests his own meaning in every utterance and gesture of the beloved? Ford wonders if these 'peacenik groupies' realize the degree to which they are held in contempt by Obama's 'funders and packagers.'"

More commentary from Ms. Wright: "The traditionalist pastor, Chuck Baldwin, is one who disdained the Bush administration right from its beginning, and frequently wrote of his aversion to the blind, even simple-minded worship of this imperial warmonger. He spoke of Christians especially and their hero worship of Bush....Baldwin called this 'sophomoric silliness' the expression of a Religious Right that had become 'blind, impotent lackeys to a big government, big-spending Orwellian and inept administration.' He claimed that the Bush administration was maybe 'one of the worst in U.S. history.' Baldwin cites a similar sycophantic behavior on the political left, which anointed Barack Obama as President. 'Obama was not inaugurated,' he says, 'he was canonized.' Baldwin, a staunch constitutionalist, is not surprised that the political left appears interested in constitutional principles only when it is a Republican trampling on them. Where is the outrage, he asks, against the Military Commissions Act, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, and other government intrusions into Americans' private lives, that were first institutionalized under George W. Bush and now continue under Barack Obama?"

Final thoughts: "The primary mechanism for control of our society is the tool of war. Without keeping us at war, the omnipotent elites, who will not be denied, would not possess the power to manipulate a population that willingly remains quiescent. Most of the significant political transformations of our society have been done in the name of war. Don't question! We are at war! The warmonger Obama, who indicates his intention to expand US military intervention even beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan, serves the same interests as those whose finances supported and sustained the Bush/Cheney regime. There will be no respite."