While a list of Barack Obama's gutless betrayals could fill pages, one cannot tag his mentor with that charge: Ronald Reagan ran as a corporate-sucking reactionary militant and governed as one. He promised to re-feudalize the country, and he did. Obama promised to reverse that process. Haha.
However, Obama's hero was a flat-out traitor by any definition, in the manner of his 1980 election. For 15 years, journalist Robert Parry has been detailing how the 1980 fix occurred: Reagan ordered Bill Casey and George H.W. Bush to cut a deal with Iran's mullahs to hold American Embassy hostages not only until after election day, but until after the moment Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President. The oath of office was taken. The hostages were released 20 minutes later. (Parry also shows how the same U.S. and Israeli intelligence forces -- forces later involved in Iran-Contra -- sabotaged Jimmy Carter's rescue attempt the previous April, known as Operation Eagle Claw.)
Parry's brilliant and brave archive can be found here.
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And the great John Dolan (whom I suspect is really Mark Ames in disguise) on what the dead traitor did to the formerly Golden state of California.
