Honestly, how can you blame the world. After we criminally invaded a country that was not threatening us and engulfed a whole region of the world in chaos and killed untold hundreds of thousands while doing this. Then for our coup de grace we blow up the entire worlds banking system and send like 30 countries to the brink of bankruptcy. I can’t imagine why they would want somebody not aligned with Bush, whether or not you believe that to be true that is how the world sees it.
Will Obama reverse disastrous these policies. Economic wise he has no choice, there are no more bubbles to blow, the US consumer is dead and the world won’t trust us for a long time. We will be lucky if the world lets us keep the dollar as reserve currency which I highly doubt. Civil liberty wise, he supports the suppression of them just as the Rs do. Foreign policy wise, Bush already did the dirty work and Obama has pledged to increasing the size of the military and continue our energy security policy under the guise of “war on terror”. Bailouts, he supports the Bush policy. He even proposes a Reaganite tax structure, except with over 25% lower taxes on capital gains than Reagan. Whether or not he can stick to it is another issue with the mountain of practically unserviceable debt and nervous creditors is another story.
The only major difference between the two is packaging. IMO, It’s a narrowly-packaged farce in which political twins pretend they are not joined at the hip on every public policy issue that has been allowed to enter the corporate media-vetted discourse: health care, Iraq, trade. Even these points of (non)contention disappear in the din of purely commercial marketing mantras with infinitely malleable meanings: “Change,” “Hope,” “Reform.”
New world order indeed. Obama has been chosen to be the barer of bad news and without divine intervention will likely be despised at the end of four years. All the pretty speeches in the world won’t mask the continuation of bad policy. Sorry Ds I have yet to see substance or positive change.
