In a comment on Booman’s article The Push For War, Bob in Portland wrote:
I would also like to point out that for the last fifty years the President has had less and less say in running things, especially the CIA and foreign policy. Obama has no real input in the discussion, but he gets to play being the leader of the Free World. This isn’t an attack on Obama, but since 1963 every President has been under the thumb of the military-industrial complex and those who step out of line have been removed (Nixon, and Carter when Stansfield Turner tried to clean out the Old Boys from Langley). The problem with not seeing what’s right in front of you is that you don’t see what’s right in front of you.
“The problem with not seeing what’s right in front of you is that you don’t see what’s right in front of you.”
All I can say is…YES!!!
But there’s more.
Read on.
I would add Bill Clinton to the Nixon and Carter examples. Lewinsky was a classic third-party honeytrap. She didn’t have a clue, but she was run by intelligence assets. Bet on it. And let’s not forget the first two “removals,” JFK + RFK. It’s the same game now as it was in 1963. These people have just gotten more subtle at their job. Bet on that as well.
The real “problem with not seeing what’s right in front of you” is that the governmental media complex…Ron Paul’s phrase, and right on the money…constructs a number of alternate realities and then very effectively sells them to the particular types of sleeple that will buy one or another set of lies. Thus we have the far right alternate reality, the centrist alternate reality, the liberal alternate reality, the various racial alternate realities, the various youth alternate realities, the sports fan alternate realities, etc. etc. etc. etc etc.
Anything but the truth of the matter.
Obama?
He’s no dummy. He knows what’s up and does what he can to get something done inside of that system without getting offed in one way or another during the process. He is a gradualist. A compromiser.
Is it working, this gradualism?
Well…it’s putting off the inevitable, that’s for sure. If you call that “working,” then I suppose it is. However, the chickens always come home to roost eventually.
Always.
We are entering a security state/control state system that is unprecedented in human history. Technology has enabled this new system to exist, and it is so new that…unlike “democracy,”, “communism,” “monarchy,” etc….it doesn’t even have a name.
Technocracy?
Maybe.
Whatever it is called and however it does its work, one thing is for sure.
What goes around comes around. On the evidence of all of human history…you can bet on it.
Bet on it.
All the lies and alternate realities in the world don’t mean a thing to them chickens.
They jes’ keep on a’flyin’ until they come home to roost. Chickenshit and all.
Sooner or later…
Watch.
Later…
AG
