Of course Obama is guilty, but the people calling him guilty don't care about justice. None of them blame Reagan for selling weapons - a lot of weapons - to Iran, and then funneling the money to the Contras, which has a bloodier laundry list than many terrorist groups. None of them blame Reagan for removing Hussein and Iraq from the list of terrorist nations. These things are on the record, and they are a billion times larger than Obama's criminal mismanagement of a Bush era tactic of seeding weapons to drug runners for the purpose of tracking them. If you want to start really holding politicians accountable, why not hold them all accountable. It would be helpful if the Left and Right united to shine a light on all this stuff. Problem is, when their side has the presidency, the Tea Party will be magically re-absorbed into the Republican base - the criticism of Washington will stop. This is why nobody save Ron Paul criticized Bush until he was a lame duck.
It would be nice if Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party could team up to go after the bi-partisan structure that bailed out the large Financial monoliths that bankrupted the economy with unregulated derivatives. But do you really think the Tea Party is going to go after the
private sector crooks who got bailed out? Of course not. The Tea Party is controlled by the big money which is funneled into their information sources in order to send them off to the next battle, to protect health insurance monopolies or fill in the blank. These useful idiots keep focusing on powerless bit players like Obama as opposed to the massive special interests which own government.
I would understand this stuff if the Left had an FDR or LBJ - but they don't. They have a weak president who has failed, time and again, to stand up to the Right. He has passed more tax cuts than any president in the last 50 years. He continued Bush's Patriot Act, which gives Washington more power to invade the privacy of free citizens than anything ever passed. He continued Homeland Security, which concentrates more power in Washington than anything ever dreamed by the Left. It is the largest, most wasteful, most secretive bureaucracy ever created.
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Obama has done nothing to curb the Bush surveillance state. Why doesn't Issa investigate that? Why doesn't he take the gloves off? Does anyone on the Right listen to what Ron Paul or the Libertarian CATO Institute says? There are much bigger problems.