Wasn’t Matt one of the pied pipers who talked you all INTO voting for Obama? Let’s try doing our research next time, shall we? The PARTY UNITY MY A$$ people were trying to warn you about this shyster from the beginning. I considered writing a letter to the editor when RS was plastering Obama’s face on their cover, smirking at bamboozling you people time after time. But I knew what would happen to such a letter.

At least Matt has a clue now, and looks like the rest of you are smart enough to see what was as plain as day to PUMAs last year. Barack Obama is an empty suit, a tool of the Creepy Corporate Cabal. But even with a mega-million dollar money machine, the creep would not have won if Republicans hadn’t refused to vote for McCain. Republican votes put Obama over the top. And Karl Rove sat back rubbing his hands in glee. He knew Obama would RUIN the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future.

With so many p. o.’d people, we SHOULD be able to accomplish some real change now.

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"Obama's Big Sellout"

"The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway"

"Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.

"Then he got elected.

"What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.

"How could Obama let this happen? Is he just a rookie in the political big leagues, hoodwinked by Beltway old-timers? Or is the vacillating, ineffectual servant of banking interests we've been seeing on TV this fall who Obama really is?

"Whatever the president's real motives are, the extensive series of loophole-rich financial "reforms" that the Democrats are currently pushing may ultimately do more harm than good. In fact, some parts of the new reforms border on insanity, threatening to vastly amplify Wall Street's political power by institutionalizing the taxpayer's role as a welfare provider for the financial-services industry. At one point in the debate, Obama's top economic advisers demanded the power to award future bailouts without even going to Congress for approval — and without providing taxpayers a single dime in equity on the deals.

"How did we get here? It started just moments after the election — and almost nobody noticed.

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Rolling Stone link:  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout