"The most dramatic political about-face in our history"

[Mechaman]

Just reading that last paragraph makes me laugh my ass off.

You know that one of my Brazillian friends (now lives in America) always dreamt of voting for Ralph Nader but gave up on that dream to vote for Obama because he believed that "Obama was a true progressive". I told him that if I was in his shoes I would still vote for Nader because Obama will end up being Bill Clinton the 2nd whenever he wins.

God I hate it when I'm right.

[Mechaman]

Obama epic failed on TARP. But this was before the election, and McCain even more epically failed on it. American politics is an election between those who help the elites, and those who help the elites even more.

And Obama was the latter. That's why he got (s)elected. As I recall Ralph Nader pointing out, 2008 was the first election in history in which the Democratic candidate got more corporate money than the Republican candidate.

Another thing I pointed out to some of my self-identified socialist friends before the election, yet they still voted for him.