Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy

Obama versus Clinton versus Plutocracy

 

Joel S. Hirschhorn                                                       

 

Here comes another inconvenient truth.  Despite all the attention to Oprah for Obama and the pundit blabbering about the Democratic primary horse race the outcome has been predetermined.  What people do not want to know is that power elites control what the Democratic ticket will be.  When the primaries end the winner will be the reigning plutocracy.

 

Rich and powerful elites want Hillary Clinton in the White House if the Democrats get their turn in the rigged two-party system.  Just one big problem: The establishment plutocracy wants her more than most Americans trust or like her.  No matter how much she spends and no matter how many big name endorsements she gets, her phoniness and arrogance prevail.  She would be America’s irritating Panderer-in-Chief.  What to do?

 

For power elites the answer is crystal clear.  Obama is too young and inexperienced and less trustworthy for the elites, meaning he is less corrupted by big money than Hillary.  But he is perfect to offset Hillary’s negatives.  A majority of voters can succumb to months of slick advertising promoting the first woman president and first black vice-president and future president.  And eight years as vice president will train Obama to be an obedient Washington insider.

 

Though Republicans will still mount a vicious attack on Clinton, Obama will moderate those efforts.  Hillary can be the annoying bad cop that people fear and hate, while he is the good guy that people like and believe.  And make no mistake: what friction exists between the two will be quickly replaced by their ambition.  Obama will tell his supporters (and Oprah hers) to back the compromise ticket and he will negotiate a sweet deal to gain big influence as vice president like Cheney has had.  Then we can all prey (delude ourselves) that he might curb Clinton’s tendencies to use military force rather than diplomacy, and create more terrible trade agreements and wasteful federal programs.  Obama might even fight the assault on the middle class and rising economic inequality.  Might.

 

U.S. News & World Report’s Paul Bedard made these points in 2006 about a Clinton-Obama ticket: “Some Republican advisers to the White House and leading 2008 hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani see the ticket as an easy winner built on the enthusiasm it would generate in Democratic circles.  Their theory is that Clinton would stand a good chance to pick up the states that Sen. John Kerry won in 2004. While not enough to win the election on her own, the addition of Obama would help push closely divided states like Ohio over into the Democratic column, thereby giving the Clinton-Obama ticket the White House.  …Obama could help soften Clinton's image and bring more African-American voters to the ticket as well as independents seeking real and symbolic change.”  Exactly.

 

In April 2007 The New York Times political blog raised the same possibility and there were hundreds of wide-ranging comments.  Though many expressed negativity about Clinton, many others showed enthusiasm for a Clinton-Obama ticket, as shown by the following five comments:

 

Clinton/Obama would be an unbeatable ticket. She has the experience as both a senator and she knows the foreign nations as her work as First Lady, remember Bill’s campaign slogan “Two for the price of one.” with Bill back in the White House, her as Pres, could surely let Obama earn his stripes and after 8 years will become what could be America’s first black president.

 

I too would love to see a Hillary-Obama ticket. I believe Obama would settle for a VP position because he is young, has served only 2 years as a US senator, and has a long career ahead of him.

 

If the Dems are smart, and I hope they are, the ticket will be Clinton-Obama and it will be unbeatable in 2008 and again in 2012. Then in 2016 and 20020 Obama will be top dog on the ticket thus providing sixteen years of a Democratic presidency.

 

Hey, Clinton/Obama is pretty powerful sounding! I’m all for it! You folks who have been programmed to hate Hillary need to get over it already. She is one smart woman who has more than enough experience in the white house and she will make one hell of a prez! Obama will learn a lot from president Clinton and will be ready to lead our great nation in 2016 or 17!

 

Obama and Hillary on the same ticket would be terrific. With these 2 candidates the country could become a democratic society for 16 years!

 

In sum, whenever you hear more chatter about the tight Democratic primary race take a breath.  Get back in touch with your cynicism.  Talk about change is for campaigns; protecting the status quo is for winners.  Plutocrats know who they want and what voters can be conned into voting for.  Despite primaries the ultimate outcome has already been determined by the faceless fat-cat plutocrats running and ruining our nation.  Think Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Business, Big Law and Lobbying Firms, and Big Wall Street Money.  They can pump in the money and endorsements to make Clinton the winner and the corporate mainstream media will assist.

 

Note that rigged-election-master Fidel Castro called the Clinton-Obama ticket “invincible.”  And, as to a winning Clinton-Obama ticket, smarmy Fox News analyst Dick Morris said “I'm leaving the country if this happens."  Hopefully more Fox News liars and idiots would do likewise.  Does that possibility justify voting for that first-ever ticket?  No.  The better moral and patriotic decision is to not participate in the two-party criminal conspiracy we call our political system and not vote for any Democrat or Republican for federal office.  Those supporting Clinton’s rivals eventually will see this truth.

 

[Contact the author through www.delusionaldemocracy.com.]

I say No To Both of them! Obama No experience,Clinton a Flip Flop and Married to a Lier!

You forgot traitor, rapist, fraud, and murderer, Sick.

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HEY SQB: This Joel Hirschhorn may be onto something. I've never heard of him, but I've been saying the same thing for a long time: You can't reform the present 2 party system (Republicrats and Democans) because they are "2 peas in a pod", and are controlled by the behind-the-scenes "plutocrats" that he describes. Read the Hirschhorn's web site listed. There is much there for serious thinking patriots to reflect upon. I've always hesitated in desiring a 2nd Constitutional Convention (under Article V) but he makes a lot of sense. Thanks for bringing him to our attention. As I've said in many other threads, a vote for any one with a R or a D after his/her name (except possibly Paul or Tancredo) is a waste of time and effort, because nothing will really change, just as nothing changed under Bush, Jr. (well--things DID GET WORSE, didn't they?)

Blacks Move from Hillary to Obama

Friday, December 14, 2007 10:44 AM By: Newsmax Staff

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama previously suffered from a surprising lack of support from black voters, but he has now surged into a virtual tie with fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton among African-Americans. Two months ago Clinton held a 12-point lead over Obama in a Pew Research national poll. But a more recent Pew survey has Hillary and Obama in a dead heat. In South Carolina, the first state where black voters will have a significant impact on the primary outcome, four polls show Obama leading among African-Americans, the Wall Street Journal reports. A Rasmussen poll has Obama getting 51 percent of the black vote compared to Hillary’s 27 percent. A month ago, the two were tied among South Carolina blacks — who make up nearly half of the Democratic primary voters in the state. As a result of Obama’s surge among African-Americans, some polls are now calling the race in South Carolina a dead heat. “We’re in a better position today than ever before, and a significant amount is due to the movement of African-American voters,” Steve Hildebrand, Obama’s deputy campaign chairman, told the Journal. Clinton built her lead among black voters partly on the basis of her husband’s popularity, and from dozens of endorsements from black ministers. But Obama has now won the endorsement of more than 100 black ministers. An even bigger factor behind Obama’s rising popularity among black voters is his surge among voters overall, which has led many African-Americans to believe he can win the general election, according to the Journal. “A lot of African-Americans in the South have questions about whether a black candidate can be elected president,” said David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which focuses on black issues. “Picking someone who is going to have a good chance to win is very much on their minds. If Obama shows he can win and that white voters can vote for him, there will be a lot of African-Americans who will be lining up to support him.”

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