Hey, Mr. Obama … You are running out of time to repair your legacy of lies to the people, abandonments of the poor, pardonings of the rich & panderings to military aggression. A growing portion of your American constituency has joined most of the rest of the world in becoming fully unfooled.

This is indeed one of your last chances to recover some sense of decency; one of your last chances to even faintly resemble the noble man who once stood so proudly before us those six years ago.

And so it is that I pray for you, and thereby pray for all of us … I pray you make a rare, wise decision … I pray you opt for something radically different than what you have repeatedly chosen until now … I pray you stand up for what the United States originally stood for (and yet admittedly hasn’t stood for in many decades) … I pray you choose for Justice and I pray you choose for Freedom …

Mr. Obama, quite simply — and somewhat pleadingly — I pray you choose for Peace.

“The thing is, [Obama] posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in the history of the nation … Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody — a Lincoln-like figure who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility … We needed a high-ground statesperson, and it’s quite clear now that [Obama] is not that man.” ~ Dr. Cornel West

Filed under: Defrocking the Democrats, Outing the Oligarchy by Scaughdt