A lot of people are noticing the difference between Obama the Candidate and Obama the President. It appears to me that Obama is following the Cloward-Pivens Strategy. The idea of that strategy is to manufacture a series of crises that can be used as justification for immediate draconian actions intended to destroy capitalism. Here is another view of Obama that is critical but less harsh than my view. My view is that his stimulus package was intended primarily as a payoff for his constituents. It was not intended to slow the economic decline of the country, but rather to deepen the crisis so that even more draconian action could be taken such as a complete takeover of the financial system. I think that Obama, like Putin, would like to have a crisis with Iran. This would dramatically increase the price of oil, something both Putin and Obama would like to have happen.