New And Improved

Buying Brand Obama

"Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest."

Our manipulating overlords play us like a cheap violin. It's most probable that Barack Obama was installed as president to continue our descent into fascism, only in a different manner than the previous administration. It's like the old good cop - bad cop routine down at the precinct. The biggest, baddest cop comes in the room and gets all penisy on you and then a kindly smiling cop comes in afterwards, all to get your cooporation. Obama hasn't changed a fucking thing, and even made some things worse, but people are buying his act.