I Can't Speak For A War That

Fate Handed Barack Obama The Best Of All Political Gifts - A Dyspeptic, Surly, Spiteful Opposition On The One Hand And Very Unpopular Financiers On The Other - And He Wouldn't Come Out Punching, Name Names, Or Go For The Jugular. It Was As If While Getting Mugged By Guys With Brass Knuckles, He Turned The Other Cheek. He Even Jeopardized His Pledge To Preserve Women's Rights Under Roe V. Wade In Order To Get A Health Care Bill Written By The Corporate Lapdog Max Baucus And The Gang Of Revolving Door Mercenaries He Hired To Write A Bill Friendly To Industry.

Big Money And Big Business, Corporations And Commerce, Are Again The Undisputed Overlords Of Politics And Government. The White House, The Congress And, Increasingly, The Judiciary, Reflect Their Interests. We Appear To Have A Government Run By Remote Control From The U.s. Chamber Of Commerce, The National Association Of Manufacturers And The American Petroleum Institute. To Hell With Everyone Else.

The Massive Upward Distribution Of Wealth Engineered By Our Political Class Over The Last Few Decades Has Solidified The Plutocratic Control Of The Rule-making Machinery In Washington And State Capitals.

Our Very Lives Depend On The Ethics Of Strangers, And Most Of Us Are Always Strangers To Other People.

I Can Tell You That The Job Of Trying To Tell The Truth About People Whose Job It Is To Hide The Truth Is About As Complicated And Difficult As Trying To Hide It In The First Place.