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7/12/08

Cleveland Indy Media Center: BARACK OBAMA A FRIENDLIER FRONT MAN FOR IMPERIALISM

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BARACK OBAMA A FRIENDLIER FRONT MAN FOR IMPERIALISM

Obama represents a section of the ruling elite that has concluded the invasion and conquest of Iraq was a strategic debacle and that a significant change in posture and personnel is required to salvage the interests of US imperialism in the Mideast. With Obama’s nomination secured, the American media has now gone into overdrive to peddle such illusions.

The television networks have devoted endless hours to glorifying the great achievement of American democracy in nominating an African-American to lead the presidential ticket of one of the two major bourgeois parties for the first time in US history. There is no doubt that such illusions are currently widespread, and not only among minority workers and young people of all racial backgrounds, who are genuinely appalled by the outgoing Bush-Cheney administration’s eight-year record of war, reaction and social decay. But the significance of Obama’s nomination, as well as his election on November 4, should that occur, cannot be judged on the basis of such superficial considerations as skin color.

Despite the incessant claims of the media and of their Democratic Party supporters and apologists, Obama no more represents the interests of black and minority people than Hillary Clinton represents the interests of all women. Both Obama and Clinton are political representatives of the American ruling elite, the small financial aristocracy which controls all the economic and political levers within US society, including the two officially recognized “major” parties and the mass media. Obama is a fervent defender of the profit system and has the backing of some of the wealthiest individuals—including billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who this year became the single richest man in America, surpassing Bill Gates of Microsoft.

Like Senator Obama, Mr. Buffett is an intelligent man, and he is not backing the Illinois Democrat because he seeks a radical transformation in American society.

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