während Obama im Glauben, in Rhetorik und Praxis zunehmend nach rechts wandert – im Glauben, die Wahlen in der ‘Mitte’ gewinnen zu müssen, entfremdet er zunehmend die ‘progressive’ Basis, der er sein Erfolg in den primaries verdankt, zuletzt mit seiner Stimme für die FISA Gesetzgebung

Ryan Lizza hat in einem langen Artikel (15 Seiten) über die Kampagne Obamas ausführlich geschrieben und ihn als ‘talentierten und berechnenden Politiker’ demythisiert

“[P]erhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them….he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza

Obama wird mittlerweile als ‘flip-flopper’ charakterisiert, selbst in den ‘liberalen’ Medien, was ihn jedoch den Sieg kosten könnte, wie zuvor die anderen demokratischen Kandidaten

Ich denke es wird für uns alle sehr schwer werden, nicht nur für die Amis. Ich war lange genug da um festzustellen das es sich bei diesem Volk um ein gutgläubiges, naives Wesen handelt, dass kulturell seine pubertäre Phase noch immer nicht hinter sich gebracht haben. Entweder das legt sich mit der Zeit von selbst, oder es führt zum (mehr oder weniger) gewaltsamen Bruch mit den “Eltern”…

ja, ich hoffe, dass ich weiter hoffen kann ;-)

Hoffnung…

Obama’s Chicago Boys

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein

ALLAN NAIRN: Well, Obama’s top adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski gave an interview to the French press a number of years ago where he boasted about the fact that it was he who created the whole Afghan jihadi movement, the movement that produced Osama bin Laden. And he was asked by the interviewer, “Well, don’t you think this might have had some bad consequences?” And Brzezinski replied, “Absolutely not. It was definitely worth it, because we were going after the Soviets. We were getting the Soviets.” Another top Obama person—

AMY GOODMAN: I think his comment actually was, “What’s a few riled-up Muslims?” And this, that whole idea of blowback, the idea of arming, financing, training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, including Osama bin Laden, and then when they’re done with the Soviets, they set their sights, well, on the United States.

ALLAN NAIRN: Right. And later, during Bill Clinton’s administration, during the Bosnia killing, the US actually flew some of the Afghan Mujahideen, the early al-Qaeda people—the US actually arranged for them to be flown from there to Bosnia to fight on the Muslim/NATO side.

Another key Obama adviser, Anthony Lake, he was the main force behind the US invasion of Haiti in the mid-Clinton years during which they brought back Aristide essentially in political chains, pledged to support a World Bank/IMF overhaul of the economy, which resulted in an increase in malnutrition deaths among Haitians and set the stage for the current ongoing political disaster in Haiti.

Another Obama adviser, General Merrill McPeak, an Air Force man, who not long after the Dili massacre in East Timor in ’91 that you and I survived, he was—I happened to see on Indonesian TV shortly after that—there was General McPeak overseeing the delivery to Indonesia of US fighter planes.

Another key Obama adviser, Dennis Ross. Ross, for many years under both Clinton and Bush 2, a key—he has advised Clinton and both Bushes. He oversaw US policy toward Israel/Palestine. He pushed the principle that the legal rights of the Palestinians, the rights recognized under international law, must be subordinated to the needs of the Israeli government—in other words, their desires, their desires to expand to do whatever they want in the Occupied Territories. And Ross was one of the people who, interestingly, led the political assault on former Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Carter, no peacenik—I mean, Carter is the one who bears ultimate responsibility for that Timor terror that Holbrooke was involved in. But Ross led an assault on him, because, regarding Palestine, Carter was so bold as to agree with Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa that what Israel was doing in the Occupied Territories was tantamount to apartheid. And so, Ross was one of those who fiercely attacked him.

Another Obama adviser, Sarah Sewall, who heads a human rights center at Harvard and is a former Defense official, she wrote the introduction to General Petraeus’s Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency handbook, the handbook that is now being used worldwide by US troops in various killing operations. That’s the Obama team.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/3/vote_for_change_atrocity_linked_us

Du meintest Karl Kraus, richtig?

„Unter den übrig gebliebenen Kandidaten tendiere ich auch eher zu Obama, wobei mich eher nur eine vielleicht naive Hoffnung trägt, er versucht doch einen ‘Wandel’ zum Besseren zu durchzusetzen. Mehr als Hoffnung ist das aber nicht.“

Yep, sehe ich auch so ;-)