Obama and the American Dream – Represent Our Resistance

Obama’s mantra, “change,” was echoed by Clinton’s oh, yeah – “change.” Yeah, that’s it. And good number of other folks went to bed, smiling. Change. But the corporations love Obama too. Clinton has more “experience” dealing with the corps, but they can love the new guy on the block who doesn’t nag them (at least not as often and persistently as John Edwards or Dennis Kucinich) with 60s mantra’s like “power to the people” or “hey, what about the poor and working-class people?” According to The Hill, three political aides on Obama’s payroll were “registered lobbyists for dozens of corporations, including Wal-Mart, British Petroleum and Lockheed Martin, while they received payments from his campaign, according to public documents (Lobbyists on Obama’s ’08 payroll). Wal-Mart, a friend of Hillary Clinton, who used to sit on the Wal-Mart Board, really loves the working class! BP and Lockheed really love war profiteering! But Obama can talk about foreign “terror” and “terrorists” with the best of them. He can suggest “aggressive” talk with the Middle East to the Chicago/Midwest AIPAC crowd back in March 2007. He can support his fellow Democrats’ Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act 1959, too. And maybe Obama was out of the senate that day shaking hands and winning support from Will Daley, the son of shoot-to-kill Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the day S456: Gang Abatement Act passed without an actual vote.