Written by Richard Kane   

The commonly voiced complaint when he was President about Jimmy Carter was that he never did anything for his supporters. Now we see with Obamacare that those who complained the loudest, but compromised in the end got their pet projects included, rather than those who cheered Obama.

Many of us like oppose corruption and get some sort of special benefit at the same time. Especially if we get hurt for helping someone we don't expect the person we helped to try to be objective in who needs the most help.

Vance Jones was appointed Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Fox News and others didn’t like the idea that he opposed Mumia abu Jamal being executed, and the 9/11 Truth Movement. He resigned and went on to being Princeton University professor and best-selling author. Others got in trouble for somewhat similar reasons like Marc Lamont Hill and also went on to distinguished careers. There is no reason to believe that Obama’s pastor would have been better off if Obama praised him. Only Michael Moore was ticked off because Obama tried to distance himself from Moore. ACORN was badly hurt and smeared in part because of its support of Obama. But the prosecutor promised no prosecution in return for the phony human trafficker turning over the entire unedited video tape. After helping the dangerous looking phony pimp with his taxes the hapless ACORN worker called the police to report human trafficking. As a government employee it would be improper, perhaps illegal, for Obama to get involved in supporting a civil suit against Fox News and the fake pimp, but the image stands that you get something out of Obama by kicking him not supporting. Senator Specter got blacklisted by the Republican Party for supporting the stimulus bill. Obama tried to give him seniority when he switched to being a Democrat, only partial succeeding, and now is supporting Specter’s attempt to win the Democratic nomination for Senate. If Specter loses, the image that you only get something from Obama by kicking him will be even greater. Rep. Sestak got a lot of mileage in his TV campaign ads showing Bush lavishly praising Specter, neglecting to mention the times Specter opposed what Bush wanted and far more frequently what Cheney wanted. Cheney even at times trying to sabotage Specter's efforts,
www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/may/14/the-need-to-roll-back-presidential-power-grabs/

Specter used to be in charge of keeping the Republican party sane, and still may be involved in keeping the pro-Israeli lobby sober and reasonable, but the best reason to make contributions to and vote for Senator Specter in the Democratic primary is what this kind of success will mean to Obama's future. This, whether or not Obama needs to compromise a little in the direction of corruption so his supporters won't seem to see the "pains in the neck" not his supporters more often get what they want. Somehow we got to stop trying to create walls against politicians helping their friends and instead create lines on just how far one can go in supporting a friend over someone else. This, in a world where one appeases trouble-makers and opponent unless they go too far.

I have differences with Senator Specter, I think the fastest way out of Afghanistan is to support Afghan President Karzai's peace efforts. Hamid Karzai rather than having secret torture prisons like in Iraq, constantly urged the US to try harder to avoid civilian casualties. If Karzai followed President Obama's advice and stops giving his supporters special benefit, some of his supporters might realize that they could get more by being a squeaky wheel.

During the Cold War many Americans used to think freedom in the world depends on American's strengths. Today, whether the world will pull itself together or drifts into currency confusion and chaos, may be dependent on whether the President of the US makes the right decisions, and how much positive leadership the US gives to the world. And how many Americans look at the long term future instead of their immediate successes in the pecking order around them.

The following link compares Obama's quick action of bank crisis to Europe's slow response to Greek crisis,
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/21-21/1914-obama-supposedly-betraying-us-what-about-his-handling-of-the-bailout-compared-to-greece

Richard Kane
RichardKanePA.blogspot.com