Random Thoughts on Barack Obama

[nattyreb]

(2/12/07)

*From the Ramparts*
Junious Ricardo Stanton
*Random Thoughts on Current Events*

/ “WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama took an important formal step on
Tuesday toward a Democratic presidential campaign that would make him
the most formidable African-American candidate ever, offering a call to
common purpose as a remedy to bitter partisan divisions and marking a
potential turning point in the nation's race relations. By filing papers
to form a presidential exploratory committee, the first-term Illinois
senator signaled his intent to run for the presidency, a move that he
has been publicly considering for months. Advisers said Obama and his
family had made the personal commitment to a grueling, two-year
presidential bid and the senator now would concentrate on assembling a
campaign apparatus and testing support among financial backers and
grass-roots activists.�/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/p...,6709924.story

Negroes are all hyped up about Barack Obama’s announcement he will seek
the Democratic presidential nomination for 2008. Most Africans in
AmeriKKKa are clueless about real deal politics having been brainwashed
to believe this is a “Democracy� of the people by the people and for the
people. Alas nothing could be further from the truth. AmeriKKKa as we
experience it in 2007 is an oligarchy essentially run by a small clique
of families and their hatchet and bag men who pull the strings behind
the scenes and call the shots for what will go down as public policy.
This cabal is made up of international financiers, media moguls,
bankers, heads of multinational corporations and a few religious and
intellectual leaders. For them electoral politics is merely a means to
carry out their long term business agenda. The AmeriKKKan social and
mind shaping apparatuses are used to keep the masses duped and falling
for the okey-doke of consumerism, imperialism, hedonism, distraction and
cowardice.

Within this framework most politicians are the puppets and dummies of
the ruling elites. The power elites pull the strings and provide the
sound that appears to come out of the mouths of their dummies. AmeriKKKa
provides the illusion the people elect their representatives when in
reality the candidates have either sold their souls to these devils or
the elites use their intermediaries (lobbyists, bag men and women,
prostitutes and bribes) to buy the attention, votes and loyalty of the
politicians.

Barack Obama is fresh meat. Let’s give him the benefit of doubt and say
he is an honest man who wants to do the right thing. The AmeriKKKan
system will change all that! In order to run for president of the United
States of AmeriKKKa Obama will have to raise millions of dollars. Grass
roots folks don’t have the kind of money to donate to his campaign given
most are struggling just trying to keep their heads above water. We
don’t control the local or national political infrastructures, the
political machines and local ward politics that would facilitate Obama’s
election. He will have to go out hat in hand asking for money.
AmeriKKKan politics is not based on altruism or the love civics, it is
based on the reality money talks, all else walks! He will have to
canvass the various constituencies and ethnic blocks. Unfortunately for
him black folks ain’t even seriously in the mix or the game. So he will
have to depend on white folks, white folks who do not have our best
interests or the best interests of humanity at heart.

Race/color will be an issue as will the fact Obama is running as a so
called “critic� of the Iraq war (he voted to give Bu$h the authorization
to invade Iraq). Keep in mind the monied class wants to continue the
occupation in Iraq indefinitely (the US still has troops in Germany,
Japan and Korea almost sixty years after WWII and there is no oil an any
of these places. Plus the US is building permanent bases in the Persian
Gulf and Central Asian region). Not only do they want the occupation to
continue, they want to expand the war into Iran! Obama will be fighting
an uphill battle against the warmongers and fascists. Black folks
wouldn’t be able to help even if we had the political organization,
sophistication and savvy, which we don’t. For him to “win� he must
depend on whites.

Each ethnic and business group has their own agenda. If Obama is
unresponsive or is perceived to be insensitive to a particular group’s
interests and agenda, it gives that group a ready excuse to dis him. For
example, the Zionist and their pro-Israeli US lobby want war with Iran,
but if Obama is genuinely anti-war, he risks raising the ire of the
Zionists, the Christian Zionists (Christian religious fanatics) and
military industrial complex. Not only won’t they give him any money they
will actively and aggressively oppose him. Can you say Cynthia McKinney?
Because he is of mixed parentage, color (race) will be an issue. While
he currently enjoys wide recognition, media celebrity status and gets
props for his eloquence, Obama will still be painted as an upstart wanna
be with no real foreign policy experience (that didn’t stop George W
Bu$h but Obama doesn’t have the political connections Bu$h had.). The
color and race issue will be pivotal. If you don’t think so, look at
what happened to Harold Ford in his bid to be elected US Senator from
Tennessee last year. Ford’s family is big in politics in Tennessee in
Memphis, they are nonthreatening light complexioned Negroes, who never
go out of their way politically to do anything risky or controversial on
behalf of the masses of black folks. To garner white votes during his US
Senate bid, Ford openly bragged his grandmother was white, he parroted
the mantra of the religious right, and as a Congressman he voted for the
Iraq war, but he still lost because his opponents used his race/color
against him.

While it makes for good copy and discussion, AmeriKKKa is not ready for
a black man who is thoughtful, who says he is for peace, who talks a
“common ground� populous game. It’s still way too early but as this
thing unfolds look for his Democratic opponents to gang up on him, take
pot shots at him on his positions and lack of experience while stealing
some of his ideas and rhetoric. Look for the Republicans to be more
vicious if his candidacy gains traction. But in the final analysis it’s
all a sham, a contrived show. The ruling oligarchy will never allow
Barack Obama to advance unless he totally sells his soul and becomes
like Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice or Alberto Gonzales, a melanated
shill for global white supremacy and war.

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[RBG Street Scholar]

i glad somebody ain't stuck on stupid--five stars for the peice.

[Jalili]

Couldn't have said or thought it better myself I trust no one that joins the system as if joining it will help any one but the system it self.