Why the surprise? After all, this is the man who would be king. His intentions are to sow dissent and create divisiveness through class warfare and he keeps the race card like an Ace up his sleeve. In more ways than he will ever admit, he is a puppet very much like Bush; one beholden to the oil men, Obama to the Chicago political machine.

This goes far beyond earmarks and big spending, at the heart of the rhetoric are assaults on our basic freedoms. There’s no relying on the media any more to stay informed, you have to actually READ the bills before Congress to understand the ugliness of the spin (example: http://smokebreak.blogshevik.com/2009/03/02/the-fairness-doctrine-lives-on-in-senate-dc-voting-bill/).

Then you write your elected officials until your keyboard wears out and pray we all manage to live through the next 1,418 days and they can all be voted out of office. That is, if we still have the right to vote.