Why is Obama "corporate"?

When the primary race was first starting, there were some very progressive, very interesting candidates. Kucinich, who had the balls to actually tell the truth about a lot of important matters, seemed to push the limits of progressive sentiment as far as someone in the Congress could and keep their seat. Edwards was a little more mainstream, with a history of rolling over a bit when the moments of choice were upon him in the Senate, but at least he focused on the plight of our fellow Americans who were in bad shape because of corporate control of policy.

Hillary I knew only as a warmongering capitulator, out of the corporate-friendly Clinton administration, who went along to get along. And then there was Obama, who several people around here had characterized as "too corporate".

Well, certainly next to Kucinich he was less of a firebrand about his rhetoric concerning corporate control of government and war profiteering. I never really considered him, focusing mostly on Edwards and Clinton, whom I thought were the two most likely to get the nomination.

But as I learned more and more about Obama, his background made me think more and more that a) he actually knows what is going on in this country with regard to the military-industrial complex and b) wants to do something about it.

He's been a professor of Constitutional law and has signaled that he will correct the abuses of the Executive branch. He's worked with unions in Chicago, certainly implying that he is on the people's side of the labor/management split. He has minimized the impact of corporate PAC giving in his campaign, and now with his taking corporate lobbyist money out of the DNC, he's signalling that his adminstration will be less "for sale" than almost any in our recent history.

Clearly, a person can't antagonize corporations too much in this country, or they don't get to be US senators. But can someone clue me in on why Obama was dismissed as too "corporate"? Because I don't get that from what I know of his background and his actions to date. Thanks,

PP

of either major party HAS TO BE in the hip pocket of the petrochemical, pharmaceutical, military-industrial, transnational elite sons of bitches.
Personally, I like the guy and will work for him to be elected in November.
But we shouldn't operate under any illusions about how much change a President, ALONE, can make. Obama will need a veto proof Congress backing him. More importantly, the huge throngs of people whom Obama has inspired to become involved, will need to stay as involved as citizens AFTER the election to keep the heat on the Feds to generate the kind of change that might actually save the Republic and the planet.

I just don't know why that particular take on him was circulating early in the primaries. He certainly didn't stand up against the war very loudly in the Senate, which kept him from being painted as the wild-eyed liberal type during the primary.

But corporate? I just don't see it.

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