Obama is a traitor and a liar, no hyperbole necessary.

I am in no way affiliated, aligned, or sympathetic to the Republicans on the hill who are all clearly in the pocket of industry. But the health care bill that just passed in the Senate is a slap in the face to all those who voted Obama into office last year. If we thought that he was intelligent enough to achieve a comprehensive health care system overhaul, we were all sadly mistaken. Bush may have been all nerve and no neuron, but Obama is smart enough to know that his deed does not match his word. So it's painfully clear to me that he thinks we are all very, very dumb.

I voted for a man who stated "I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan." I suppose the word he could use to undermine that statement is "happen", he could say it just hasn't happened yet. His campaign website stated that under his health care plan "Any American will have the opportunity to enroll in [a] new public plan", and later after his inauguration he said in his weekly address "any plan I sign must include a public option." But in his recent comments on the current bill he directly denies that he ever campaigned on the public option, when anyone can see his speeches on YouTube or Google any of the information from his campaign. It may be taboo to use the word "Lie" or "Liar" in politics, but anyones' criteria for those words have just been met.

His deeds in Copenhagen also fell far short of his words, and what he had to say to other nations was pure hypocrisy. He had the most cards in his hand to play and could easily tilt the outcome in any direction, but his delegates were demonstrably uncompromising and worked directly with other wealthy nations to subvert the campaigns of the poorer nations, whose fates are most affected and least deserved. And it was the U.S. alone who insisted on using a different standard by which to measure our emissions directly allowing for more pollution in the air if not on the records. In recent comments Obama admits that "people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen" and went on to suggest that the U.S prevented the talks from taking us backwards in climate negotiations. I for one am not falling for his presidential double speak no matter how eloquently he delivers it.

I believe that most people who voted for Obama did not do it because they wanted to see a smarter man carry out business as usual in the executive branch. There may be a demographic out there who likes to be lied to and wants it to be a command performance, but I was kinda hoping for real change, change I can believe in. I don't know where I got that idea from, that "yes I can" "Hope" for "Change I can believe in", for a "Universal health care plan" with a "Public option" and to "Close Guantanamo" and that we could "act now and act boldly" and save the planet for future generations. Obama has already acknowledged that we are in the most pivotal time for action on the environment, the future now rests in his hands and his betrayal will not go unnoticed by future generations.

President Obama, we are not that dumb, and you are not that smart. I hope you are much better at justifying your actions and inaction to yourself than you are to the rest of the world. You are wrong to assume that your charm and wit are enough to make the world forget that you are the reason the water rises around them. You are the reason the storms are getting bigger and killing more people. You are the reason hundreds of millions of people will be forced into a migration they may never rest from or survive. Obama, you are the greatest traitor the world will have ever known, and no one will dispute this fact when the hard rain falls. You will find little comfort among the allies you have made and secured in the oil, gas, and coal industries when the world is the smoldering pile of ashes they are determined to make it.

So you say you want a Mass Global Uprising...

As I write this there is a global climate conference taking place in Copenhagen to reach a deal on the curbing greenhouse gases. Ultimately the ceiling of 2 degrees Celsius has been set as the maximum global temperature increase that can be tolerated by our fragile ecosystem, but 1 degree Celsius is more likely the number for climates that are already hot and arid like most of Africa. The Obama administration is running on American auto-pilot by employing the usual tactics of stalling and watering down any deal proposals to the point of redundancy, and most likely will instead use the opportunity to back out on the Kyoto protocol altogether. The current tactic is a typical shell game in which they want to reduce emissions by the right percent using the wrong point of reference.

Any deal that does come out of the talks will rely on a few stubborn congressmen who are marinated in corporate campaign contributions and inundated by endless armies of lobbyists from the oil, gas, coal, and nuclear industries. This is a perfect example of democracy American style, where a handful of people can thwart the will of the world for the sake of the wealthiest percentile. The American government has nothing but contempt for a true global democracy where all share equal rights and political power, this was displayed bluntly when George W. Bush appointed John Bolton as the top diplomat to the U.N. Obama is showing the same contempt with more eloquence by ignoring the voices coming from the people, and we can expect his speech tomorrow will be dismissive in his usual uplifting manner.

I have no faith in this conference, this president, this global system to do what is necessary to achieve a real cut in greenhouse gases in the time we have to do it. Even if Obama wanted to make these changes he would be in for a monumental task with unprecedented resistance from entrenched industries and the people who profit from them. But it can be done, and must be done, so what steps can be taken that could make a significant reduction and save the planet for future generations? Nothing that will make any real change will be simple, the problem is epic in proportion and so are the solutions. Those people who believe that they are owed a "standard of living" or "way of life" will not like the measures that must be taken, and all of us will be called on to make sacrifices.

The first thing president Obama should do is redirect 100% of NASAs' missions and capabilities to saving the planet and appoint James Hansen as it's head. Cut the Defense budget by 70-80% and redirect those funds to rebuilding infrastructure in a leaner, greener way. End all wars and military actions around the world and close all military bases on foreign soil devoting the newly scaled down military to basic defense purposes only. Revoke the rights of corporations and restore the rights of humans, animals, and the earth itself. And revoke the charters of corporations who have already done too much damage and of those who consistently fail to meet set standards for emissions.

We must defeat the oil, gas, coal, and nuclear industries before it's too late, the consequences of failure are unspeakable. Obama and other so-called leaders lack the political will, vision, and sense of scale necessary to achieve significant change, and the change we can expect will be compromised by the industries that are holding the Earth hostage. I truly believe that nothing short of a mass global uprising can break the bondage of this suicidal system. We know that heads of nations and industries will not do the right thing and we cannot settle for their usual "too little, too late" patchwork for our planet. The people of the world have never had such a common platform on which to unite. The parasitic ownership class that has stolen the wealth of the world are now content to fiddle while Rome burns. It's time the suppressed masses impress themselves on their oppressors.

Ready?... wait for it... GO!