Obama has proved himself to be incompetent in a short time

By Saybhan Samat

(March 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Barrack Obama’s election on November 4th, 2008 and his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th, 2009, now just a little over 50 days since taking office, has proved to be a disappointment to all his supporters world wide. It is obvious that Obama is captive to the powerful men behind the military industrial complex, the American Israel Public Affair Committee (AIPAC), and the influential corporate sector of the United States. His foreign and economic policies are much the same as those of George Bush and he gives the impression that he is ambling along giving bland statements with no resolute ideas and policies. The Obama mania that prevailed on his election last year has all but faded off. The spin doctors that showed him as an avatar and a prophet are silent and much to their chagrin watching Obama stumble his way in his office as president.

Much was made of Obama being black. In actual fact he never experienced being black. His entire life experience has been with the whites- white mother and white grand mother. His schooling and law degrees from Harward are experiences that few blacks can ever aspire to in racist America. Obama may be black on the outside, but he is indeed completely white in the inside. For the average black man, if he escapes prison, he could probably get sucked into the US military where the percentage of black enlistees exceeds their representation in the general population. This is not by chance! The US system is loaded against them. Recruitment in the military offers a few job opportunities open for them. For many the choice is between dying for America abroad or being humiliated and oppressed at home.

Obama’s election as president is meant to convey the message that the US has turned the page on George Bush’s brutal policies. This is nonsense America’s elites thrive on wars, plunder and exploitation. To date they have bombed 25 countries in the world. Before and after the election Obama has done what the establishment expects him to do. Immediately after winning the Democratic Party nomination for president, he went to prostrate before America’s real masters: the American- Israel Public Affairs Committee. At their convention, Obama said he would not only stand by Israel regardless, but also declared that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel. The first appointment Obama made after winning the election was that of Rahm Israel Emmanuel as his White House Chief of Staff. An Israel citizen, Emmanuel had served in the Israel military in 1991. Other appointments in Obama’s cabinet are equally troubling in addition to vice –President Joe Biden, who has a long history of staunchly pro-Israel positions, Hilary Clinton, Dennis Ross, Aron Miller and Daniel Kurtzer are all Israel firsters, American interests come a distant second. It appears that Obama is more pro-Israel than even neo-con George Bush. So much for the empty slogan of change which Obama promised. With this kind of attitude there not going to be any peace in the sensitive Middle-East and hence no-peace in the world.

Obama’s disgraceful silence during the recent 22 day Zionist rampage and slaughter in Gaza once again unmasked where his loyalties were. Obama’s presidency many know will not usher change. The slogan was a cheap trick to fool the masses which today every politician in the world resorts to.

In the economic front to bail off the finance, insurance motor companies and the banks billions of dollars have been allocated as a stimulus package. Despite the capitalist system failing Obama wants to continue with free market, liberal and capitalistic policies, once again proving that there will be no-change. He is compelled to serve his masters the corporate capitalist class.

It is very clear that Obama’s undoing will happen, if he does not change his policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s much respected Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khameini speaking a day after Mr. Obama broadcast a message inviting Iranian people to “a new beginning” on their new-year day of Nowruz dismissed Obama’s invitation as another “slogan” Just like George Bush, Obama remains implacably opposed to the idea of Iran acquiring a nuclear power. Tehran meanwhile insists that until the US recognizes its right to continue its disputed nuclear programme there is little of real substance for any diplomats to talk about. The carrot and stick diplomacy which has been tried earlier just won’t work with Iran, even “all options are on the table” often pronounced by the Bush administration and the Israelites has not worked. Out of delusion and desperation if Israel and the US attack Iran, surely that will be the beginning of the third world war.

All the bluster bravura and the posturing of the US and its allies is shadow boxing. Facing a down-turn in the economy, a quagmires in Afghanistan, uncertainty in Iraq, Pakistan and Palestine, the US, NATO and Israel have run out of options and are desperate. The irony of all this could be seen by the Obama policy to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and still find an exit-route to get away from Afghanistan Obama is out of touch with reality and his behaviour borders Schizophrenia. Despite threatening Iran with further sanctions if she does not halt her nuclear programme Obama is also inviting Iran a neighbour of Afghanistan for regional talks to stabilize the chaos in Afghanistan where the Taliban is inflicting heavy casualties on US and NATO troops

In a very short time Obama has proved himself to be incompetent. It is also observed that the spin doctors have given up trying to revive his image, Obama’s performance in just over 50days since he first took over the presidency is to say the least unrealistic and impracticable. Obama is more likely to reduce the super-power status of the US to a third world power.

-Sri Lanka Guardian