Why Obama is Not Wall Street

Obama's bow to Wall Street had two causesHe genuinely believed a mega-depression was at handNo one has proved him wrongHe was also a centrist who had no hostility to Wall StreetEvents proved him wrongObama is a pragmaticist - spelled correctly - different than pragmatistHe thinks in threes not twosWhen something proves wrong he moves forward taking what he can takeFrom his first reaction and from his subsequent experienceAnd he puts it into a hypothesis for the futureThe hypothesis for the future has always been his idea number oneIt is change Save the middle classChallenge povertyReform prisonsMinimize nuclear dangersAnd other sensible thingsHe has experienced the sad and racist underside of the GOPWho can't stand the idea of him in the White HouseHe has been silent about thisIf you look back to key juncturesYou should know that just when Obama looks as though he is being too nice Or tooWall Street Or too anythingHe will fool youHe has fooled the whole nation into thinking he cannot winAnd for the next year or so he will do what he needs to do to winAnd Wall Street will be chastized and wiserAnd he will be our first Human Rights PresidentIn his second termAnd people will flash back to Berlin in the 2008 campaignBecause he will be remembered not as an American leader primarilyBut as a pivotal figure in world historyAll because he thinks like Charles Sanders Peirce
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