Greider vs Geitner

Barak Obama used the verb “fight” more than a dozen times in his speech in Elyria, Ohio on Jan. 22, 2010. He vowed again and again to fight for the people against abuses, excesses and predatory practices of the big corporations in general and the financial institutions in particular.
Obama spent his first year in the White House proving that he is not a fighter. He bent over backwards and wasted most of the year trying to please Republicans who want nothing but his failure. He said he is not going to prosecute the two most evil criminals and mass murderers of the 21st Century, even though his oath of office requires him to do so.
If Obama is sincere about changing his ways and fighting for the people against the rogue, predatory corporations, Rahm Immanuel, Larry Summers and Timothy Geitner will no longer be in his administration by April 30, 2010. If they are, we will know that the candidate for change still has no intention of changing, or fighting.
Obama spent his first year proving that he is not a fighter. Like most Democrats, he is somewhere on the spectrum between a compromiser and a surrenderer. Will we get three more years of timidity and weakness? My bet is “yes.”