Obama was never about hope but servitude. He was about everything ugly and sinful: envy, covetousness, jealousy, bitterness, hate, fear, theft. Dependence is not hope but servitude.
And if we think that the current financial crisis will prevent Obama from implementing his ambitious Marxist plans (plans so ambitious that most CEO's recently polled said they "would bankrupt the country within three years"), we need to consider what Obama's idol Alinsky thought of our economy...Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301434/postsCapitalism always was considered the enemy. "America's corporations are a spiritual slum," he wrote, "and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society."
Reichstag fires, every one. Create a problem so that you can “solve” it, each instance requiring the sacrifice of a bit more liberty.
Hitler did it. Mao did it. Chavez, da Silva, Castro ... Nine out of ten tyrants surveyed recommended it.