I happened to be checking the basis for corporate “personhood” recently and its relationship to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave citizenship to slaves freed by the 13th Amendment. Not being a lawyer I didn’t have that much interest in the details so forgive my quoting Wikipedia on this but ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

“Others argue that corporations should have the protection of the U.S. Constitution, pointing out that they are organizations of people, and that these people shouldn’t be deprived of their human rights when they join with others to act collectively.”

In comparing this “logic” with the recent rejection of the class action suit against Walmart one can see yet another example of the political bias of the Supreme Court. People cannot “collectively” bring legal action against a corporation and must do so individually, but “shareholders” must be given the right to “collectively” do almost whatever they please as a special corporate person. The phrase “corporate shield” has many menacing aspects in its protection of the powerful and often evil individuals in our society.

It’s not a little ironic that the amendment to the Constitution that made American slaves Americans has after all these years made the vast majority of us little more than chattel to our corporate overlords.

When I saw the image of Obama gnawing on his hand while allegedly watching some sort of ‘live’ video of the raid on bin Laden’s compound, I couldn’t help but think that his major concern was in becoming a Jimmy Carter like president after the fiasco of the raid to free the Iran hostages. (I don’t see Obama as caring much about anything other than his political future and what he, personally, can get out of a situation.)

Now there’s that “heat-thinned air” condition that somehow wasn’t anticipated.

Really! Does anyone remember the commander of the Iran hostage raid who kept calling reporters who asked about the raid “candy assed” and yet only succeeded in killing Americans and guaranteeing that the hostages would never be freed without some sort of concession to the government in Iran? Heat was the problem. They didn’t anticipate the much greater difficulty in landing, taking off and flying under desert heat.

“Nobody could have anticipated …”

I am amazed that anyone that isn’t to the right of Attila the Hun is giving Obama praise for a speech. Yet another speech from the great speechifier.

Remember, this is the man that told a joint session of Congress that he wanted a “public option” in his health care – long after he had assured the mega corporate parasites of the American health industry that he would never allow the public option.

I could mention his call for ending the Bush tax cuts just before his election contest – nahgonnahappen, but what’s the point? Obama has had more than two years to demonstrate that he’s something other than a conservative Republican.

He hasn’t and another speech is just another example of hope-a-dope.

It’s long past time to stop being a dope for a douche.

I think you can go back a little farther to a similar situation.

Remember Mars for $5 billion? And “he forgot” Pell grants!!!

But let’s “win the future.”

Except we’ve got to freeze it first.

The man is a pure speechifying bullshit machine.

Maybe someone has done it already. If so I’ve missed the news, but if it hasn’t happened someone should pull a “Slap Shot.” Do a striptease for these sickos. Make the humiliation go both ways. Sure they’ll claim you’ve committed some crime but the reality is that you’d only be doing what they demand of you.

The finishing touch should be a goatse. Goatse for Obama. He demands it of America. No one deserves a goatse more.