Written by David Neil Murchie   

Recently, one RSN contributor perceptively suggested that when the historical dust settles, the current era will undoubtedly be spoken of not as the “Obama Era,” but, more ignominiously, as the last leg of the “Bush-Obama Era.” Mr. Obama has indeed shown himself to be quite comfortable with an imperialistic foreign policy that continues to hitch a ride atop the shoulders of George W. Bush, a policy based on the fatuous assumption that the best way to stop terrorism is to implement an even more devastatingly systematic policy of state terrorism. Furthermore, on the domestic front, Mr. Obama has ignorantly bought into the almost humorously contradictory Republican canard that the best way to help poor people is to give money to rich people. Let’s face it - regardless of how much (or how politely) one may want to give Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt, he is, like his predecessor, a loser. Regrettably and ironically however, both are losers that are and will be receiving A-1 health care and fat pensions for the rest of their lives, all courtesy of taxpayers who themselves are facing serious reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits for which they have been paying faithfully for many years and which people like Obama, Bush, and their ilk are trying to reduce in order to have enough money to finance their own financial dreams for what Joseph Stiglitz refers to as the “1% America.” It is understandable though shameful that prosecution of murderous state criminals like Bush and Obama is no longer a realistic possibility in America; (our elite leaders have a way of getting real “bipartisanshippy” when it comes to protecting each other from the laws they themselves make). Would that there were some way to consign Mr. Bush, for the rest of his life, to clearing brush at Prairie Chapel and to send Mr. Obama back to law school to brush up on the constitutional law which he used to teach but which he seems to have lost interest in since joining the executive branch of the US government.