Since the election last November, the US has witnessed maybe a watershed shift with life in America, and especially the view of President Obama.
Just a bit more than a month after the polls had closed was Sandy Hook Elementary — which ‘celebrated‘ a six-month anniversary yesterday. And following closely, shit-bird crisis after shit-bird crisis, especially in the last couple of months.
(Illustration found here).
A disturbing image has come about, but was probably there all along.
Paul Harris, who’s been observing US politics for the UK’s Sunday Observer for a decade, has a commentary up this morning (via the Observer‘s daily sister paper, The Guardian) on Obama’s disturbing road from 2004 to summer 2013.
Money quote:
Neither is Obama ignorant of the law; he’s a constitutional law professor.
In turning America into a national security state, the awful truth is that he knows full well what he is doing.
There are three more years of this to come.
Involvement in Syria’s war looms, and more terrorist attacks like the one that hit the Boston marathon could lurk in the future.
Where will Obama take America in that time?
Judging him on his past actions, I think it will be no place good.
Harris is pretty aggressive, but spot on.
My view of Obama was altered in July 2008 in a seemingly-superficial way with Obama’s now-famous three-point basketball shot in a military gym in Kuwait (if you like, see it here) — this guy was way-too cool for school. An alarm bell, faint but noticeable, clanked in some distant part of my brain. Six months later, after being elected president, Obama brought Larry Summers and Tim Giethner into his bosom, and the tiny alarm bell became a wailing siren.
An this condensed overview from the-now widely known, Glenn Greenwald, via Salon in April 2009:
Last night, former Reagan-era S&L regulator and current University of Missouri Professor Bill Black was on Bill Moyers’ Journal and detailed the magnitude of what he called the on-going massive fraud, the role Tim Geithner played in it before being promoted to Treasury Secretary (where he continues to abet it), and — most amazingly of all — the crusade led by Alan Greenspan, former Goldman CEO Robert Rubin (Geithner’s mentor) and Larry Summers in the late 1990s to block the efforts of top regulators (especially Brooksley Born, head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission) to regulate the exact financial derivatives market that became the principal cause of the global financial crisis.
To get a sense for how deep and massive is the on-going fraud and the key role played in it by key Obama officials, I highly recommend watching that Black interview (it can be seen here and the transcript is here).
Greenwald was the guy with the Edward Snowden story last weekend. A scoop pulling down last vestiges of the ‘cool‘ curtain surrounding Obama — he’s nowhere out but out.