But many other more telling facts indicate that Obama is but a figurehead of an unelected government in the US. This unelected power of corporate elites – commercial, financial, military – governs with the same core policies regardless of who is sitting in the White House. Whether these policies are on social, economic or foreign matters, the elected president must obey the direction ordained by the unelected elite. That kind of untrammeled power structure conforms more closely in practice to dictatorship, not democracy.
Obama’s presence in the White House indulges a superficial moral/political correctness while the masters whip us all into austere servitude.
The US “war on terror” is another illustration of America’s dictatorship of the elite – and Obama’s pathetic servile role of carrying out the masters’ orders in defiance of the will of the people.
Recall that Obama’s bid for presidential election in 2008 was avowedly based on ending the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also denounced his incumbent rival George W Bush over the use of special powers that enabled such aberrations as the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp and a host of draconian home security policies infringing on civil rights.
TVNL Comment: If the presidency of George W. Bush did not make you understand that the office of president is just for show, then nothing will convince you. Bush was perfect. The ideal person should be easily manipulated. The less they try to actually do something on their own the better it is for the ruling elite. Bush was perhaps the most unintelligent and uninformed figure in politics. He had no understanding of the world, history, science or the Constitution. He was the perfect puppet.
David Gergen, a journalist who served as a White House advisor to Republican and Democratic presidents,...
