Obama: No Change

Mick Hall writes:

In many ways Barack is an ideal candidate for Corporate America, as the color of his skin hints at the prospect of great change, when in reality an Obama Presidency would mean business as usual, even in Iraq, in other words no change at all.

Forget Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson, these people have never been on Obama’s political radar, nor did he ever emphathize with them and theirs. His soul mates within the Black Community can be found on Wall Street, in the media and the big multi national legal corporations; his role models are reactionaries such as Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, who incidentally whilst a Republican himself and a one time gofer for both of the Bush Presidencies, has said he is pleased by Barack Obama's success, which I would suggest tells one a great deal about this candidates politics. As to Obama’s skin color, it is relevant only in that it it will act as a hook to reel in the more gullible middle class liberal voters. It is no accident that he has been able to build up a massive war chest much of which has come from Corporate America.

Just as Powell and Rice gave the Bush administration an ethnic face, if elected Obama will give Corporate America a progressive glint. If any one seriously believes Barack Obama will withdraw the US military from Iraq and Afghanistan and will help create a fairer more equitable society in the USA, then they are in for a shock. For Barack Obama represents more of the same although perhaps with a slightly more human ‘media’ face. To misquote Hermann Göring, if a US Presidential candidate tells the electorate that they intend to bring about change, reach for your revolver, for the only change such people will initiate is reactionary change.