Typical President Obama — Putting Foxes in Charge of Hen Houses — FDA Commissioner Robert Califf

© 2016 Peter Free

 

26 February 2016

 

 

What it looks like is usually what it is

 

Consider this latest display of President Obama’s characteristic coziness with plutocracy’s Wallet-Thieving Elite:

 

 

The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates about a quarter of every dollar Americans spend, has a new boss — and he's already under fire for being too cozy with the pharmaceutical industry.

 

Dr. Robert M. Califf, a cardiologist and researcher, was nominated by President Obama in September to become the new commissioner of the agency.

 

Despite the reservations, Califf was officially confirmed to the position in a 89 to 4 [Senate] vote.

 

Califf has worked with many drugs companies, as both a paid consultant and through his research. As Scientific American points out, "In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Califf listed over a dozen pharmaceutical companies in his conflict-of-interest disclosure."

 

Unlike previous commissioners, he did not come from a public health background. Instead, the New York Times reported, he "ran a multimillion-dollar clinical research center at Duke University that received more than 60 percent of its funding from industry."

 

© 2016 Julia Belluz, Why critics are worried about the new FDA boss, Vox (24 February 2016) (extracts)

 

 

Meanwhile, the President is running around pretending to do the “liberal” things

 

Like closing Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison facility. Which of course he knows cannot happen because he deliberately left the task until way too late.

 

 

The moral? — With our Commander in Chief, it was usually about pretending to be someone that he was not

 

President Obama — who first reviled, then massively exceeded Republican President George W. Bush in virtually everything that the Democrat had pretended to oppose — is going to have a difficult time getting competent future historians to buy his current line of Liberal Legacy Swill.

 

True, the President cut a fine physical figure as a President, one I was proud to have. But he intentionally failed to deliver the substance of what he had said or suggested that he would support:

 

 

Whatever liberal ideas Senator Obama had sounded were swiftly abandoned as president, in what is surely the most shameless bait-and-switch in American political history.

 

The cause already was abandoned in his first months in office when the Democrats held majorities in both houses of Congress.

 

His administrations arguably were oriented to the right of the last pre-Reagan Republican president – Richard Nixon – incredibly, on civil liberties as well as on economic and social programs.

 

President Obama drove the final nails into the coffin of the old Democratic Party.

 

© 2016 Michael J. Brenner, How Clintonism Loses the White House, The Globalist (21 February 2016) (excerpts)

 

Former Secretary of State Clinton would be just as bad, yet another Plutocracy Puppet in a long stream of the same.