Specifically, in regard to Obama's foreign policy, Los Angeles writer, Juan Santos, notes:
With respect to Black interests, Obama would be a silenced Black ruler: A muzzled Black emperor. A Black man at the head of the White Amerikkkan State - one who's unwilling to speak truth to power, but more than willing, like a Condi Rice or a Colin Powell, to become that power and to launch wars of aggression against other people of color.
In Obama's case the targets will be Iran (which he has threatened with "surgical" missile strikes) and Pakistan, rather than Iraq. That's the only difference between Obama and Rice and Powell, or Bush, for that matter.
Even ABC News notes that "Obama, one of the more liberal candidates in the race, is proposing a geopolitical posture that is more aggressive than that of President Bush." Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan, in a column entitled "Obama, the Intervensionist," cites Obama's claim that "he wants the American military to ‘stay on the offense, from Djibouti to Kandahar.'" To help the empire stay on the offensive, and despite the fact that US military spending is breaking the bank at over $1 trillion a year, and far outstrips the spending of any potential imperial rival, Obama wants to beef up military spending, adding 65,000 troops to the Army and 27,000 more Marines beyond the obscene levels already under arms in the so-called "War on Terror."
For further insight into the candidate who is a "master of pretending to be progressive", see Carolyn Kay's "He Ain't A Saint: A Citizen's Guide To Barack Obama".
The Life And Death Issues Eclipsed By Election Hysteria
Specifically, here is what I would need from a candidate to even consider the possibility of voting for her/him:
•1) Is that candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding the reality and scope of climate change? Will he in the first month in office convene a worldwide summit on the issue and enact emergency measures in the United States to address it?
•2) Is the candidate aware of and astutely informed regarding Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Water, and the depletion of all of the earth's substances which we have come to call "resources"? Will he in the first month in office convene a worldwide summit (in conjunction with a climate change summit) on Peak Oil and other energy depletion issues and enact emergency measures in the U.S. to address them?
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