So GE and the like are going to start paying taxes?
OH HEAVEN FORBID!!
Obama is a DEMOCRAT, not a nationalist.
Obama calls himself a Democrat, but what he is doesn't really have a label.
Even while he is saying all the things we who are leaning left want to hear he is also signing new FREE TRADE agreements with Korea.
Even while he was voted in by people hoping for single payer universal HC, his compromise solution benefits private HC insurers more than anybody else.
Even while he was voted in by people hopeing for an end to our Asian wars of empire, he has ratched up our military presense there
Even while he was voted in by people expecting GITMO to close it remains open.
Even while he was voted in by people who loathe the Patriot act he does nothing to end it.
Even while he was voted in by people who clearly object to the wildingly out of line income distribution, he is failing to do much about it.
I could go on and on and on about how Obama's policies are essantially, --when it comes to the ONLY things that matters...economic policies and foreign interventions -- REPUBLICAN LITE.
You may see this guy as being significantly different (certainly his rhetoric is) , but in the larger picture to most of us on the left who are POLICY DRIVEN thinkers, Obama is nothing more than a slightly more personally palatable version of Bush II.
Not by any stretch. If you want to get down to specifics the differences are too many to mention.
First and foremost Bush was a friendly guy with a quick wit and outgoing personality while Obama throughout his life has been rather unpopular and a bit spoiled. Bush was hyper-active while Obama was a bit on the lazy side. He procrastinates and delays difficult decisions and rarely is decisive unless the outcome is preordained.
The only reason he seems like Bush isn't because that's the way he wanted it, it's because he discovered that he couldn't get his way on everything. I'm sure that behind closed doors there have been serious arguments over what Obama can do and can't do. When he gives a speech like he did this week, that is the real Obama. The fake Obama is the one they're trying to pass off as being reasonable and moderate.