I believe that the Obama’s have a fundamentally liberal-left view of America. A view of America as a corrupt and oppressive empire that must be eradicated and remade into a controlled pasture of socialist sheep.
This is an empire which is on the one hand the most powerful empire that ever existed; on the other hand an empire that is crumbling — an empire that has no future because the rest of the world is alienated and simply because this empire is top-heavy with military commitments, with bases around the world, with the exhaustion of its own resources at home.
[This is] leading to more and more discontent and home, so I think the American empire will go the way of other empires and I think it is on its way now. ~Howard Zinn, Alternet.org
This is the worldview of Obama. This is the ‘hope’ that his campaign embodies. The hope that the American people will finally demand socialism.
If there is any hope, the hope lies in the American people. [It] lies in American people becoming resentful enough and indignant enough over what has happened to their country, over the loss of dignity in the world, over the starving of human resources in the United States, the starving of education and health, the takeover of the political mechanism by corporate power and the result this has on the everyday lives of the American people.
[There is also] the higher and higher food prices, the more and more insecurity, the sending of the young people to war.
I think all of this may very well build up into a movement of rebellion.
We have seen movements of rebellion in the past: The labour movement, the civil rights movement, the movement against the war in Vietnam.
I think we may well see, if the United States keeps heading in the same direction, a new popular movement. That is the only hope for the United States. ~Howard Zinn, Alternet.org
The hope of the Obama campaign is the hope that Americans will become resentful.
Michelle Obama explains her view of America.
Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!” ~newsbusters.org
When a seven year old girl asks Barak why he’s running he channels Howard Zinn:
“America is…, uh, is no longer, uh… what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.” ~gatewaypundit.blogspot.com