Obama Works for the Culprits but It's Not His Fault

Some thoughts generated upon viewing

Obama: 'tea party' wrong on 'culprits' of economic woes

For slightly over an hour, Obama appeared at a town hall style gathering called “Investing in America,” hosted by the business cable channel CNBC at the Newseum journalism museum in Washington. He admitted that “times are tough for everybody right now” and noted that the recovery fostered by his policies “is slow and steady as opposed to a quick fix.”

I thought that when the President had something to say then he commanded all the television stations. Now he's relegated to a business cable channel? I didn't watch any TV last night so I don't know if other channels broadcasted it. If they did, did they have to say that it was "hosted by CNBC"?

If this isn't further proof that Obama is a corporate talking tool then I don't know what is. Did GE/Comcast hire Obama to speak on their behalf? "Appear tough on big corporations, but not too tough." "Appear tough on net neutrality, but not too tough."

The President of the United States of America responded to an amorphous, miscellaneously defined political(?) movement on a niche television cable channel owned by a massive international corporation and the US's largest cable provider. Weird. No wonder nobody hardly even cares about the President. Despite the fact that everyone has an opinion on the President, half of them didn't even vote, and probably more than half of the ones who did don't really know what they're talking about.

Obama disputed tea party activists who argue that the government is now engaged in activities which go beyond the scope of what is authorized in the US Constitution. He argued that the federal government is probably less intrusive now than 30 years ago.

Yeah, it's less intrusive into the machinations of megacorps.

Don't let all these supposedly myriad new regulations fool you, the business elite control the world now more than ever. Government somehow continues to increase its staff but also shrink away from responsibilities at the same time. Blows my mind.

And the fact that these corporate issues are major talking points is majorly back-asswards. You have to draw some long lines to seriously connect half the shit they talk about as far as major political issues back to your own daily life. No wonder it hardly matters who our President is. They're all corporate shills.

I laugh at you when you say how much better this or that guy (not a girl!) would've been as our President. It's like this:





To conclude, I'd like to state that I think it's important who our President is. I think they become tools after they're elected but if they're strong enough they can inject at least a little personality and reason into the mix and maybe after a succession of good Presidents we can reach a truly worthwhile state of politics and honest democracy which works for the betterment of humanity.