Otherwise, we would have President McCain or Clinton. With Rahm Emmanual as Secretary of State. Or some such.

Rahm's strategy is 'hey, the Republicans need not be the only party of war and big corporate money. We can do that too--and market it better. And win bigger.'

Obama has demonstrated that he is a fraud (simply: not who he asserted he would be) and now takes the Democracts into neo-con neo-Republican mode with feel-good Oprah flourishes.

(Not that things won't possibly spiral out of his control regardless.)

Rahm will face-fuck every vaguely progressive, anti-war, anti-corporate, non-AIPAC sanctioned dem of any power that he can, as he works to remake the Democratic Party in Joe Leiberman's substance, with Obama's image.

Didn't you see the knife in Bill Richardson's back? He probably thought Israel should stop with the illegal settlements and apartheid super-highways and made ths mistake of saying so.

Silly, Bill.

But worry not--the Pentagon and its corporate patrons have everything under control. Obama will manage the new war in Afghanistan/Pakistan for Central Asian energy resources with a new feel-good style designed to mute reluctance here in the bubble. A new mass-casualty covertly NSA-parented terrorist attack will likely, I fear, be permitted to happen so as to rally the masses behind what brought Russia to its knees: trying to hold Afghanistan.

All heil Rahm, the "mega"-lomaniac.

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