by Glenn Greenwald from Salon.
The article supports my long held contention that Obama was carefully selected by the ruling class for the 2008 show elections to defuse all the popular anger against Bush, the wars, and the economic collapse. They were right--much of the anger was defused, and the leftover has been mostly directed against immigrant workers. He was the perfect candidate to "pull the wool over the eyes" of the American people. Even with this Gulf oil spill disaster that was caused in large part by the Administration's waving of environmental checks, you can be sure that he will be well protected by mainstream media.