Look at this nice long list of accomplishments. Ignore all the repeats and ones that have been invalidated. He espoused the stance at one point so it counts!

(List Redacted due to Nausea)

Wish I could have been the "fly on the wall" at that meeting with Bernie. Why was the presser delayed? Why did he send his pressman out ahead of his endorsement announcement?

Senator Sanders said he would stay in the race for DC. He keep his promise to US and I will keep mine. I will be sending another small donation to fund his efforts today.

Exonerated: 2012 Voted Jill Stein

Too late for sorrow now. Alas, many of us were swindled by the novelty of a black candidate with his Madison Avenue tag line ("hope and change").

I guess that deep down, I now have to admit that I am even dumber than I look. Such is life but never again!

P.S.: All like-minded individuals are cordially invited to join us in the "people's republic of VT".

We may need to do another occupy type action but this time we should do it with strategic planning and setting up logistical support.

We need to make sure we have adequate food and supplies stockpiled both on and off site so that we can make sure the occupiers are provided essentials, this is crucial for any operation that is going to be large in scale and scope, and it will be.

Charging stations for cellular and computer equipment is a must too, we need to make sure that every occupier that wants to can record, stream, etc as much as they want via social media. This is imperative because we already know we cannot count on the actual media to cover this unless they have no choice.

We also need to make sure we set up some kind of WIFI available for the occupiers if possible or at least set up several live streaming locations.

There is much to be done, but it is becoming more and more evident that we are gonna have to be the ones to do it, and its gonna have to be soon...

Don't forget Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 convention - you can be sure they don't let anyone near that mic who isn't totally down with the powers that be, even if the speech is just pretty but empty rhetoric.

4 years later I listened carefully to the Clinton/Obama debates in 2008 but couldn't detect much real difference, so I voted for the Greens, tho it was still cool to actually see a Black man in the White House, even if the guy was basically a Nixon Republican.

We can pretty much gauge what kind of foreign policy Clinton will pursue, more endless war. I cannot think of an American war in her adulthood that she hasn't supported.

She has announced that she will declare a "no-fly zone" over Syria. I realize that some people may not have noticed this but right now Russia, at the invitation of the sitting Syrian government, is flying sorties against ISIS, al-Nusrah and other rebel forces.

If Clinton tries to enforce a no-fly zone she will be going to war against the other major nuclear power. She may finally bring about peace on earth, by getting into a nuclear war.

..".being so smooth a con artist", as you said in your essay.

the smoothness and his light-weight charm to swipe important issues off his suit's shoulders as if they were some dust to wipe away and nothing more to think about, is something he "inherited" from his father.

His father could charm and arouse a sizable crowd with a big smile and some jokes in academic or other settings. His father was eloquent (like many African politicians are) and had some grace and successes in dealing with crowds. Obama needed desperately a positive father image and that aspect of his father I think he build up in his imagination, idolized it and internalized as a child.

Obama wrote about that in his first book. When is father disappeared everything about him was kept "hush, hush" in some boxes in a closet. When he returned for a short visit one day when Obama was still a child, may be twelve or younger, the father showed his authoritarian character and lack of empathy for his child.

His white grandmother brought him through private school with a small career of her own in a bank. For sure Obama understood what it means to have a good understanding of what jobs in the banking system can do for "little people", because his stability during his high school years came about through his white grandmother and not his white grandfather.

All I am saying is that I believe his basic instincts and reactions formed in his childhood. He was very gifted rhetorically, but never a fighter for the oppressed or working class people, other than to understand that it's good to have some jobs in the financial or tech sector. He believed an education could bring him places and he understood that a law degree will bring him somewhere politically. He could write and talk himself out of his student debt, He could erase it by writing convenient books that helped build his "image". Obama was never discriminated as a black child, which is quite amazing. I guess spending years in Indonesia and HI away from typical white western US culture made that possible. His mother didn't experience discrimination for having a black child from a black guy who abandoned her. Her parents didn't disown her or showed hostility against Obama's father, she could leave the country before it could even happen to her.

Just saying. I don't give him credit for his elegant smooth con artist capabilities, I just believe I understand where it came from and I believe he never has tried to critically see at himself and reflect on him. I don't think he understands, why so many people feel betrayed by his political actions, and then he is also too arrogant now to bother about it.

Was Obama himself naive? I think so for a while, he believed in this "unity agenda". I do believe that foreign and security policies were way beyond his understanding. He simply could make it, because he happened to have a war-mongering, terrorist chasing GWB before him. It's nothing much to say he is against dumb wars, when everyone realized how frigging dumb GWB's war were. No foreign policy expertise needed to come up with that.

Oh well ... sorry I went OT.

There was never a doubt. I hear in three more years almost half of the American people will get fooled again. Read it in a fortune cookie.

I voted for Nader as I heard Obama speak, know what he sounded like to me? a used car salesman,,,,oh wait, after the crash ion 08, he had control for a short while of General Motors, so he did turn out to be a car salesman of sorts!

But Don is right, we do not have the luxury of time with incremental steps to change under the incompetent, neo-liberals and Republicans, sadly the fact that we should have known what Exxon covered up decades ago to start doing something back then about climate change, means that as we still discuss it, the environment is unraveling, nature cares not for human politics or profit driven plotting.

This is what you get when sociopaths, psycopaths and con artists get to be leaders because they want the job no one else wanted. Founding Fathers had the right idea of political positions being like military service, all were supposed to participate(requiring good education), and do it for a limited time and then go back to their regular work, farms, etc. Doing it as a part of just being a citizen. Today we have preening popularity contests, people unsuited to leading getting votes using fear tactics, lying and mud slinging to sway an ill-educated populace to give them their votes.

Will the planet survive the collapse of our Eco-system? we have proof that yes it will. shall Humanity survive the atmosphere becoming toxic water gone and food loss as species die off left and right? I can't say, but not so likely, and what quality of life will people have in under ground bunkers with limited resources?

I can see the pattern, and that is why I use the signature I do, borrowed from Douglas Adams, but sadly poignant as it seems prophetic despite there being no hyper-space by-pass as the reason for a demise of our species own orchestration lead by the preening, posturing suck ups we see in the news calling themselves our leaders.