Obama's Betrayal Should Not Be A Surprise

When Obama sells out his lower- and middle-class followers, it should not be any sort of surprise.  Obama, like Clinton, is a rock-ribbed right-wing ideologue, and he wants to be the President to finally achieve the dream of the right wing and cut New Deal entitlement programs so popular with and so helpful to the American people.  By law, Social Security cannot add to the budget deficit or national debt; making it a part of any budget negotiations is a plan by both Democrats and Republicans to help further the radical, hard-right social agenda preferred by Koch-Suckers and Pete Peterson and the rest of the cretinous Ruling Class.  The insane and unsustainable growth in health care costs were not addressed by Obama's health insurance reform plan.  In order to truly address that very real problem, the President and the nation as a whole would need to do what every single other decent country on earth has done and institute some legitimate form of national health care and in the process castrate the for-profit health care and health insurance industries.  That is obviously not going to happen; one prominent reason is that Obama and his administration are true conservatives, and the Oligarchy has no interest in reversing the 40 year tradition in the United States of unprecedented redistribution of wealth upward.  For now, fiscal and budgetary policies will continue to follow the right-wing outline with the President and the Democrats advocating for the traditional conservative agenda while the Republican teabaggers agitate for the most radical reactionary positions; in the United States the political middle is somewhere between hard-right and batshit crazy.