Most people don’t want to
be a perceived as party-poopers – which is why the principled folks
that have protested the evil antics of the corporate, imperial parties,
in Tampa and Charlotte, are so much to be admired. Frankly, who wants to
be the one to point out, in the middle of the festivities, that
Michelle Obama was just a Chicago Daley machine hack lawyer who was
rewarded with a quarter million dollar a year job of neutralizing
community complaints against the omnivorous University of Chicago
Hospitals? She resigned from her $50,000 seat on the board of directors
of Tree-House Foods, a major Wal-Mart supplier, early in her husband’s
presidential campaign. But, once in the White House, the First Lady
quickly returned to flaking for Wal-Mart, praising the anti-union “death star” behemoth’s inner city groceries offensive as part of her White House healthy foods booster duties.
She also serves on the
board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the corporate foreign
policy outfit to which her husband dutifully reported, each year, in his
pucker-up to the presidency. The Obamas are a global capital-loving
couple, two cynical lawyers on hire to the wealthiest and the
ghastliest. They are no nicer or nastier than the Romneys and the Ryans,
although the man of the house bombs babies and keeps a kill list. Yet,
former “green jobs” czar Van Jones, a convention night chatterer on CNN
who was fired by Obama for no good reason, chokes up when he speaks of
the Black family that fronts for America – a huge act of national
camouflage.
-- Glen Ford, "What Obama Has Wrought" (Black Agenda Report).