So far, people can say anything they want about President Obama as long as it is pretty.    But there are those who don’t have to worry, because they’re not on this continent, and not affected by the mainstream media as we know it, and they can say and write what they want. 

Pravda columnist (translated from the Russian) Mikhail Leontiev, who is deeply critical of the West, and the US in particular, fires multiple broadsides, which would send the American Left in a hissy fit of gargantuan proportions if mentioned by anyone in the States.  Leontiev begins by providing the Hollywood myth:

Barack Obama’s accession to power reminds the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster about America’s future, where the US president is is often portrayed as a black intellectual, who is greatly concerned about saving America from an imminent catastrophe.

We have all of that now: the black intellectual and the catastrophe. Let us just try to understand what it all means even if we are not average Americans.

Barack Obama appeared as the voice of many changes and the embodiment of changes during the elections. […]

And then he swerves into a head on collision with the Clinton Administration:

All vectors of the current US politics were built under Clinton’s rule. The NATO expansion, the bombing of Yugoslavia, the separation of Kosovo and even the doctrine to topple Saddam Hussein (Biden and Clinton took direct participation in its development) were all built during Clinton’s presidency. The Clinton’s administration used to have a much greater involvement in Russia’s internal affairs using the phenomenal loyalty of the Russian leadership of those times. It is worthy of note that Obama emerged as a politician against the background of anti-war sentiments.

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The current crisis [economic crisis] was basically formed during Clinton’s stay in the office in spite of the fact that Bill Clinton is considered the President of the American Dream. Social and pension funds were emptied during Clinton’s presidency, and a colossal bubble was made on the stock market. Poor Bush could only delay the inevitable end.

The Clinton years lay the ground work for all Leontiev offers up as President Obama lack of understanding:

Obama himself can only say that the crisis has been caused with an irresponsible distribution of money and cheap loans. He has not been taught to deal with anything else.

“Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling out economy where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs which leads to even less spending; where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit,” Obama said.

“I think he is going to have a strong message for the bankers,” David Axelrod, a top Obama advisor said. “We want to see credit flowing again. We don’t want them to sit on any money that they get from taxpayers,” he added.

Leontiev even seems to ruminate over the fact that the American taxpayer is footing the bill:

The taxpayers’ money was spent long ago along with the money of the future generations of taxpayers. This is what they call a system crisis.

Obama said the American Dream was about people’s faith in the lives that they were building for themselves and for their children and grandchildren, to make their lives even better.

Peter Peterson, the former US Commerce Secretary believes that those empty promises only mean that children and grandchildren will have to pay today’s bills. Billionaire Peterson said that the current generation of Americans had guzzled away the lives of the next two generations. This is the end of the American dream.

Obama embodies the peak of this dream. A son of a Kenyan shepherd has become the president of the USA. This is the peak, and the downfall is inevitable.

Obama, who has not done anything bad to anyone yet, is destined to become the embodiment of the failure of great hopes and colossal illusions.

Keeping in mind the source of the article, which does mirror the thoughts of many Americans, as another bailout which will hit the trillion dollar mark is in the making, this analysis isn’t pretty.

Presently, this kind of criticism exists outside the mainstream media bubble.  The planners of the Obama/Democrat economic package better hope it pans out.  If it doesn’t, and then mutates into an economic monster, the media bubble will break.  Reality will rush in and wash the planners away, leaving an economic wreck behind. 

In a sadly ironic way, only a Russian can say what should be said right now.  Granted he’s not a friend, but facing the possibly of a serious economic clean-up is what is call, “Facing reality,” which ultimately means, we’ll need a woman to clean up the mess. 

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