Jonathan Pilger is a fearless journalist who, like Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein and others, tries to uncover the linkages between American policy and big business and separate what politicians say from what they do.   You can find some excellent documentaries by Pilger on Amazon and Netflix—I strongly encourage you to watch them if you can.

There’s  no question in my mind that President Obama is much more literate, verbally proficient, and intelligent than Bush II is.  And I much prefer Joe Biden to Dick Cheney—in fact I would prefer Spiro Agnew to Dick Cheney. 

However, as I predicted to friends and family before Obama took office, our president doesn’t appear to be doing anything that a centrist Republican (like Clinton—and if you don’t think Clinton was a centrist Republican, take a look at what he did while in office) wouldn’t do.  Obama is backed by the same business, energy sector, and financial interests as Bush was, and has taken a pretty conservative approach in action if not words, as Pilger points out in this brief video below.