[lbo-talk] Why Obama was selected

[Evergreen Readers and Writers]

Joanna: "The political reality I witnessed were scores of middle-class
professional hi tech workers, normally completely apolitical, giving up
their vacation time to go to the south west and register voters and campaign
for Obama. I've never seen this before in thirty years. Once elected he
rushed to dismiss this sizeable, intelligent, and capable group of people.
But these people were part of the political reality. It was different this
time. The cynics say it was just an anti-Bush, anti-McCain vote. I can't
quite buy that. For one thing, Obama is not a very likeable person. He did
deliver some good speeches; but overall, he's persnickety, moralizing, and
schoolmarmy. I never understood the talk about his charisma. He wasn't a
glamorous Kennedy, or a Eugene McCarthy; he too was kind of an asshole, so I
don't think he won on looks and personality. 

"To say that he was a capitalist tool is not enough. Capitalism has short
term and long term possibilities & one may serve capitalism in many ways.
FDR served capitalism too, but what a difference for the working class."

That is all true. 

I think it was the consent of the majority in the monopoly bourgeoisie class
(and their media) etc., that projected Obama. It had many benefits for them
and it was their foresight as well.

A great image of USA was projected all over the world. US peoples'
magnanimity..., etc.

The public inside the USA was as well given a boost--that if Obama can make
his life so comfortable under this social system, what bothers you?
An unprecedented recession, which had been on cards since 1998--the time
when Clinton was trying to find one or the other pretext to invade Iraq--was
emerging--everything seemed going wrong to the public opinion--inefficiency
of the US ruling class and public disgust with it was hovering in the sky.
Public distraction was needed direly.

Besides this, Chinese and French agents in Africa needed to be ousted from
power and replaced by the US, if USA was to have lion's share in the
economic contracts, activities, etc., there. Though in this plan, things
haven't gone in the direction in which they would have liked to. It is US
supported fellows that have seen hard times so far.

Obama was an excellent choice to address all these issues.

Zihannasheen