Margaret Kimberly on Obama's Imperialist Presidency

Margaret Kimberly @ Black Agenda Report - As we have said often at Black Agenda Report, Barack Obama is not the lesser evil, he is just the more effective one. We say this not because we possess a trove of top secret information. We just pay attention to what he has always said.

Barack Obama has succeeded in mastering the art of marketing, that is to say convincing people to buy what they otherwise would not. In 2008 he marketed himself as the anti-war candidate when he was nothing of the sort. When he ran for the Senate in 2004 he told a New York Times reporter that he “didn’t know” how he would have voted on the authorization for use of force which gave the green light to invade Iraq. He also made the statement quoted above that he wasn’t really different from the man Democrats were supposed to hate.  Read more.