Freedom Rider: Obama Knows Best

By Black Agenda Report editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Created 09/29/2009

Obama and his co-conspirators at the G20 meet.

“Who are you going to believe, Obama or your lying eyes?”

It is hard to understand why thousands of protesters ever bothered going to the G20 summit meeting in Pittsburgh. They foolishly marched about, yelling and carrying signs and demanding action on climate change, health care reform, employment for all, a bailout for the people, and an end to endless war and empire building.

How could they possibly have missed the great largesse of Barack Obama and representatives of the other powerful nations? There must be some new and secret regulations we don’t know about. They must be very secret, because it doesn’t look like anything has been reined in for the global finance system. But what do we know? Obama said something like that is going on, so it has to be true.

“Global capitalism seems to create “bubbles” that devastate the lives of millions of people.”

So you see, global capitalism is kind of a fuzzy thing after all. The capitalism system may appear to be very concrete. It seems to create “bubbles” that devastate the lives of millions of people. It seems to demand that politicians turn over trillions of dollars in public resources. It appears to determine who will win elective office. It all must be a cruel optical illusion. After all, who are you going to believe, Obama or your lying eyes?

“If protesting ‘won’t make much of a difference’ it must be because the president already knows he won’t be listening.”

Obama always says such nice things. Despite telling citizens that they shouldn’t bother protesting because he never did, and after all he was a community organizer, he also said they have a right to waste their time [2]. “One of the great things about the United States is you can speak your mind.”

For a moment there it seemed that speaking one’s mind was problematic to say the least. The president doesn’t think that protesting global capitalism is necessary, because it is so fuzzy and so warm and isn’t the cause of any problems, but what the hell. Knock yourself out if you want. Go ahead and waste time marching if you having nothing else to do with your life.

The Pittsburgh protests should be the last to take place during the Obama presidency. If protesting “won’t make much of a difference” it must be because the president already knows he won’t be listening. Why bother protesting when powerful people let it be known that they aren’t at all impressed in the first place. The point of marching is to make political demands, but if the target of the demand couldn’t care less, well, figure it out for yourself.

It is wonderful that Barack Obama is president. Now we know what we should and should not bother doing. We shouldn’t blame capitalism because it doesn’t really have anything to do with us, and it is really nice, too. Thank you very much Mr. President. You set us straight once and for all.

Margaret.Kimberley@BlackAgandaReport.com.

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[1] http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909200322

[2] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_bi_ge/g20_summit

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