Where big bucks are concerned, there is no difference between an elephant and a donkey.

To be fair, the Obama Presidency has given us the Affordable Care Act, which has extended health insurance to millions of Americans.  Also, Obama's recent executive order together with the Supreme Court's decisions declaring the DOMA unconstitutional have done much to sweep away the last vestiges of official discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

On the other hand, the recent police shootings of unarmed African Americans and the subsequent riots suggest that, despite the '64 Civil Rights Act and the election of a black president, not much has changed in our inner cities since the Sixties.  Very disheartening.

Meanwhile, evidence mounts that, where the filthy rich are concerned, the Dems and the GOP are all cut from the exact same cloth.  Consider the following telling facts:

1.  Since Obama became president, only one Wall Street crook has gone to jail in the wake of the Great Recession.

2.  The Clintons have abused their foundation to peddle their influence far and wide on behalf of all comers who could pay to play, up to and including Vladimir Putin.  (See the May 11th issue of TIME Magazine.)

  Yes, as John Stewart recently remarked on his "Daily Show," while thousands of Americans are doing hard time for drug possession, the fat cats who stole our pensions are living high off the hog.  And the Clintons are living the high life right along with them.

Still, if you believe in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (beyond the Second Amendment) you have to ride with Hilary, no matter how much you deplore the gross behavior of her hubby, a nouveau fat cat if ever there was.

The alternative is a repeat of the Bush years: more poverty and militarism.

But when Obama attends a so-called "religious roundtable" on poverty, as he did the other day, and exhorts us to aid the poor, I wonder if he has the top one percent in mind.   Or the top .1%.  He could probably call them personally and ask them to pony up.

I was only a boy when Harry Truman went home to Missouri at the end of his second term.  He was probably the last president not to finish his days a wealthy man.  Today, regardless of party, presidents quickly join the club at the narrow top of the pyramid.  It's a lifetime membership and it's hard to see a whole lot of the bottom from up there.