It's a long article, which you can find and read in its entirety at his website (by clicking
on his name above) but this is the part that got to me at the end:

    Opportunities to exercise moral principles as a nation and a people are rare to begin with,
    and fast vanishing. At some point they will be extinguished by the exigencies of human
    species survival. It doesn't take a prophet to know this. Anyone paying attention to planetary
    population, resource depletion and the eco-collapse understands it in the gut. The mounting
    worldwide competition for human survival will not allow for much high mindedness. So we
    should exercise principle and administration of justice while principle and justice are still
    possible.

    There are endless rationalizations proffered as to why Obama has not come within a mile of
    fulfilling the promise and potential of his presidency, and the Democratic Party is writing more
    of them every day. Disappointed Democratic voters grab at them, and desperately defend
    each one on internet forums and in letters to the editor. But we must use our own personal
    capabilities as free rational human beings to assess Obama, and decide why he is failing.
    Or not failing. To hell with highly crafted official explanations about "wars of necessity" and
    trillion dollar blackmail payments.

    George W. Bush left office wearing the same smirk he came in with. Perhaps it's congenital.
    But if Bush was smirking when he left office, he must now be convulsed in crazed hysterical
    laughter. His gang not only got away clean, but Obama carries on the dark Bush-Cheney
    legacy. And, almost as if to top the whole black escapade with a cherry of irony, the most
    inarticulate president in American history is now on the motivational speaking circuit at
    $200,000 a pop. Never let it be said that the Devil does not care for his own.

    Will Americans ever rise up in defense of their own common well being through such things
    as education, health and a productive peace caring society? Nope. Because it has been
    seen to that socialism -- the administration of the nation solely for the common good and
    benefit of all the people without preference or privilege -- doesn't stand a chance in America.
    For over a century those who have attempted to further socialism have been shot, hanged,
    burned alive in their beds on Christmas Eve, imprisoned, falsely accused of crimes and
    falsely convicted, and demonized by the capitalist elites of the corporate state. The cause of
    socialism has effectively been wiped out in the US. Few Americans can even define the word.
    Most think it is a political system when it is a social philosophy. Hell, half the socialists these
    days think it is entirely a political system.

    But even if Americans understood socialism, they are too terrified to ever admit to its virtues,
    much less publicly support the cause. And without free and open public participation in some
    democratic form of socialism, regardless of the name or label given it, there can be no
    recognition of the people's common welfare and good. And so the most egalitarian social
    philosophy ever conceived dies within a nation, with very little chance of being reborn
    because such an ideal, by its definition, cannot exist within the narrow mindset of bankers
    and oligarchs.

    Bush smirks, Obama break dances in and around the minefield of his false promises, and
    Wall Street CEO bonuses are higher than ever."

If you visit Joe's website and look around, the only link I found problematical was his Australian
interview, which I tried to embed here directly but they make you search for Joe Bageant specifically.
It's worth the effort if you can find him.  He's worth the trouble I think.
Discovering Joe Bageant
Apparently he's been well know by some for
a long time, but I only came across him in the
amazing essay, "The Devil and Mr. Obama,"
subtitled, "Barack promised change -- and sure
enough, things changed for the worse."  Bageant
sums up the horror Obama has turned into
(or always was) by pointing out we've been
had -- that the prospects for true reform and
real change are not good, and that we really
shouldn't be surprised.
KenSmet.com
Joe Bageant