After spending the last four hours surfing the internet and reading about Obama's win, both from American and foreign media, I came across a Real News Network interview with Ralph Nader that was quite sobering, and rubbed some of the sheen off the warm, fuzzy, giddy feeling I was having about the Obama win.
Basically, Nader points out that Obama hasn't shown a propensity to take on power, and that he received millions in donations from corporate America, which, along with the weapons contractors, ultimately runs America. He also points to Obama's flip on oil drilling, and to the fact that Obama has consistently left the poor, which Nader says accounts for 100 million Americans, off his rhetorical radar, and has referred only to the middle class (which, Nader points out, continues to shrink). Anyway, here's the link to the sobering interview with Ralph (whom I did vote for in the 2000 election, an election which saw George Bush win Colorado by 10 percentage points over Gore).
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