This product of the corrupt Chicago Democratic Party machine, whose
first job was with Business International, a firm with CIA connections,
was catapulted into the leadership of the Democratic Party and then into
the White House to provide a “left” gloss to viciously anti-working
class policies. On the basis of his anti-war posturing and his slogans
of “hope” and “change,” and exploiting the belief among voters that he
would be sympathetic to their needs because of his ethnicity, Obama came
to power in 2009 and immediately set about implementing a right-wing
program, both foreign and domestic, in continuity with that of his
predecessor.
A major share of political responsibility for his
ability to do so rests with the Democratic Party’s pseudo-left
apologists such as the International Socialist Organization, which
declared Obama a “progressive” and hailed his election as a
“transformative event in US politics.”
Obama continued the war in
Iraq, escalated the war in Afghanistan and extended it into Pakistan,
launched new and devastating wars in Libya and Syria, backed a bloodbath
led by Saudi Arabia against Yemen, and ordered the drone killings of
thousands of people in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
-- Andre Damon, "ObamaCare: The Reality Hits Home" (WSWS).