President Obama is on a collision course with the social justice forces that elected him. Beneath the soaring rhetoric of his 'progressive' inauguration speech lay the reality that after four years in office, the oligarchs are stronger that they were in 2009
When Barack Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States for the second time on January 21, 2013 in the 57th presidential inauguration, the forces that mobilized to reelect Barack Obama temporarily celebrated. The Presidential Inaugural Committee had mined all of the symbolism of the day of the varying liberation struggles in the United States to maximize participation:
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