President Barack Obama has been US President for over six months now. It's interesting to look back at what third-party candidate Ralph Nader warned about Obama back before the November 2008 election. Nader warned that people will be very disappointed if they expect Obama to be different than Bush. In another speech at a similar time, Nader warns that Obama caters to the power structures and has taken a lot of corpoate money for his campaign.
I find all these warning prescient. Since becoming US President, Obama has not really challenged the status quo. With a few exceptions, things appear to be moving the same direction as before. There is still a large war in the Middle East with a long-term US military committment, the US military budget is actually climbing much higher than the Bush years, and Obama has pushed through trillion dollar bailouts to save Wall Street.
