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.
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