Quantum Windbag
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Damn, a lot of this sounds just like what I keep saying, Obama is really Bush.
The Party’s Over | TaylorMarsh.com
Theres a reason Obama reelect doesnt have a slogan.
All theyve got is a question: Are you in?
Symbolic of this problem is what happened to Elizabeth Warren when her rise was met by Tim Geithners foot, and why Ron Suskinds book Confidence Men made the Administration queasy. Its seen in Wall Street firms earning more in Pres. Obamas first years than in both terms of George W. Bush.
Then theres Obamas foreign policy, the issue that weighs most for me, which picked up where Bush left off. Pres. Obama and his serious reservations didnt keep him from signing the NDAA, something any conservative Republican president would sign. Indefinite military detention without trial is now the policy of the Obama administration, which is something Mitt Romney would also do. There is no habeas corpus at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. What is called targeted killing has actually increased under Pres. Obama, something Glenn Greenwald writes about regularly. As for secret prisons, its not quite as a bad as Bush, because now people are held for a short-term, transitory basis. But Pres. Obamas surveillance program is identical to his predecessor. Candidate Obama was against the Iraq war, but he had no trouble bombing Libya without congressional oversight or approval, even though it was not of strategic interest to the U.S. or a clear and present danger. Weve supposedly gotten out of Iraq, but there is a 104 acre embassy, the biggest on planet earth, with support and logistics to match.
Its also why Pres. Obama showing up in Osawatamie, Kansas to use the Occupy message didnt fool smarter folks, because if his leadership matched the words he spoke Robert Reich wouldnt be floating hail Mary posts about switching Biden with Hillary.
What happened with Plan B, however, reveals something else.
As a recovering partisan these days and after watching Pres. Obamas compromising conservatism, I no longer feel the urgency to support a political party who has threatened dire consequences if I dont vote for them. Beyond foreign policy, economic, and civil rights issues mentioned above, Pres. Obama has also chosen to short-change women again and again on our freedoms, starting in the health care bill, then by executive order that empowered conservatives of both parties, and finally by making the decision on Plan B that would have come from Mitt Romney, too.
The Party’s Over | TaylorMarsh.com