who are you, Mr. Obama?

Photo from Air Force One on the way to Obama's Afghanistan War speech at West Point. From left: Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama, National Security Advisor and retired Marine Corps four-star general James Jones, Chairman of the the Joint Chief of Staff (the highest ranking officer in the U.S. armed forces) Michael Mullen, Secretary of War ("Defense") and former officer of the Air Force, CIA, and National Security Council Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton


From Los Macheteros (the clandestine people's army for the liberation of Puerto Rico):

"The election of Barak Obama as President of the United States was not a surprise. The military-industrial complex that really runs that country needed a charismatic and apparently-liberal figure to replace Bush, who had upset the people and left the economy in ruins and risked the entire political-military imperialist system."

"This manipulation has been witnessed markedly during the second half of the 20th century: first a heavy-handed hawkish Republican and then a Democrat that is not less hawkish but who implements social policy that is less antagonistic and speaks a language that is more conciliatory. As an example, suffice it remember that Clinton was successor to Bush father. That he is black does not mean that his ideas are very different from those of his white predecessors. The only way to reach the Presidency of the United States is to be in communion with the group think of big business, the military, and to be willing to implement the interventionist and capitalist policies of the empire."