One year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. He succeeded the administration of George Bush Jnr. which, by the time it had come to the end of its second term, was battered, bruised and in the midst of one of the worst economic crisis in living memory.
Just like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Obama had inherited a country in a severe recession. And just like FDR, Obama finished his campaign with promises of a tougher stance on greedy bankers and that the profits of the few would no longer preside over the well being of the many.
But after his first year in office, the jury is still out as to whether Obama really is speaking out from the trenches against corporate America among his fellow Americans, or whether his reliance on Wall Street fat cats for his next load of campaign cash will mean his bark is far worse than his bite.
