Obama frightens me less maybe because he appears to be less of a warmonger and less in thrall to the money machine. You think that by not mentioning him and how much less scary he is to the world in comparison to Bush and Palin I'm right-wing?
He only appears that way because of the way the international mainstream media presents him. In reality, Obama ordered a massive troop surge in Afganistan, committing more civlian-killing drone strikes in his first year in office than Bush did during his entire presidency, expanded the war on terror into Yemen, his administration is arguing to stay in Iraq past the 2011 deadline, and has recently upheld both indefinite detention at Guantanamo and the "right" to kill US citizens abroad without trial all the while he expands and expands the pentagon budget, both officially and unofficially through war spending. On the economic side, he's given top appointments in his administration to wall street ceo's, he forfeited real healthcare in favor or protecting private profits, and his winning campaign was the most expensive presidential bid in american history. So, the pro-Obama movement is also a right wing one, and we need something much greater than a shallow surface change that the mainstream democratic party (beholden to the same interests as the republican party) represents. I pick out your comment because I encountered many internationals online back in 2008 who wanted to pressure me to vote for Obama's pro-war, corporate campaign just because he wasn't Bush. Putting a different face on the same policies isn't enough, and hasn't really helped us. The real dynamism for "change" that we have right now is in the uprising in Wisconsin, not the electoral system.
