Refusing to acknowledge that he made a 'cooperative' accommodation on missile defense shields in Poland to demonstrate a 'sharing' of power with the Russian Federation, he and his surrogates offered some sophomoric comments about 'bad intelligence' on Iran and some vague sentiments about doing what is 'best for our national interests.' Not that I am for more defense spending in Eastern Europe (or anywhere else for that matter); of course not. But the least Obama could have done is publicly acknowledge that an important reason for his decision not to pursue Bush's missile defense strategy was because he understands that we live in a multipolar world, and that he (and the USA) cannot continue to act like an implacable imperialist hegemon. Yet, he refused to admit such.

And now Obama wants to prove to us domestically, once again, that power is not to be shared, but hoarded and abused... and that ours is not a government of, by and for the people. Rather, this is a government of the powerful against the peons. He is now asking Congress to renew the Bush-Cheney policy embedded in the "Patriot Act" that will continue the use of numerous questionable domestic surveillance techniques on American citizens, whether or not there is real justification for such 'snooping'.

This self-same hegemony is also going to demand that you and I (and all Americans) are vaccinated for the swine flu or risk being jailed - I mean 'quarantined' - for our refusal; all for the good of the country,of course. And further, if he gets his way under the proposed legislation, we will all be required by law to purchase health insurance or be fined for our decision not to. God is this a great country, or what? ...land of the free, home of the brave!! Is that psycho-talk, or what?

And now we hear further that the HEGEMON is telling us that the free flow of information on the web is bad for us and bad for democracy. Yet, he certainly did not find fault with it during his election cycle run-up. He seems to use whatever tactics and approaches that suit his drive to enlarge and consolidate power... Nietzsche called it the Will to Power!!

As we recently read in The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:

"Obama said that good journalism is 'critical to the health of our democracy,' but expressed concern toward growing trends in reporting —especially on political blogs, from which a ground swell of support for his campaign emerged during the presidential election... 'I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,' he said."

I guess it won't be long now before OBAMA does what the IranianTheocracy did last summer in the wake of fallout from their fake elections... OUTLAW the blogosphere and silence those who don't comply!!!  No folks, it is not a zero-sum game anymore... it is now a negative sum game! Let the games begin!!!