Cool - Barak Obama, by Louis

Cool as a cucumber, means people with a calm, unflappable demeanor. Recently, “cool” has been a colloquial adjective used to describe President Barack Obama. “Cool” can also mean, “aware of issues and problems that most people are not aware of.” Again President Obama has been described as having all these “cool” qualities. At one time, Mr. Obama had these qualities, but he has caved in to the corporatist democratic tendencies of his party so that he has slowly but surely turned into yet another unsuccessful president.

It was good he was against the War in Iraq. But recently he has sent U. S. troops back in and is renewing a battle the American public is against. Mr. Obama seems perfectly comfortable with perpetual pointless war in the Middle East despite the widespread opposition by the American public. He happily continues a pointless endless war in Afghanistan. Another war the American people are against. I think that is one reason Senator Rand Paul became rather popular in Colorado. He spoke out against our unthinking interventionist foreign policy that does not benefit the American public in the slightest. Somebody is benefitting, who?

 Mr. Obama has supported trade deals that are designed to disenfranchise American labor unions, to disenfranchise working people. Many of his liberal allies have told him his disastrous trade policies such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, will result in millions of Americans losing their jobs. After a while, Mr. Obama answered that the trade deal will create many new jobs in the U. S. NAFTA and CAFTA have already decimated thousands and thousands of towns and small cities in the U. S. TPP will be even worse.

Mr. Obama does not seem to care. When the public service employees unions were trying to recall Scott Walker in Wisconsin, Mr. Obama’s silence was deafening. Somehow, despite some liberal happy talk, Mr. Obama has turned into a hostile bellicose, pro-Wall Street, corporatist Democrat indistinguishable from the most obnoxious Republican right-wingers.

Historically Barack Obama will be counted as another failure as a U. S. President.

© 9 May 2016 

About the Author 

 I was born in 1944, I lived most of my life in New York City, Queens County. I still commute there. I worked for many years as a Caseworker for New York City Human Resources Administration, dealing with mentally impaired clients, then as a social work Supervisor dealing with homeless PWA's. I have an apartment in Wheat Ridge, CO. I retired in 2002. I have a few interesting stories to tell. My boyfriend Kevin lives in New York City. I graduated Queens College, CUNY, in 1967.