Matt Cavanaugh wrote:another lurker wrote:
Goldman Sachs owns both parties.
Tru dat. GS was obama's #1 campaign contribution source, the single-largest source evah in a presidential campaign.
KiwiInOz wrote:
I am interested in why you feel this way about him. I've seen other similar comments (from other people).
He came in as a force to be reckoned with and met with an equal and opposite reaction. Imagine where America might be now if so much time and treasure hadn't been wasted in attacking and seeking to neuter one man.
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Slightly longer answer: obama has broken every campaign promise he ever made, starting with 'I will close Gitmo within my first 100 days.'
It is not in Obama's power to close Gitmo. He did not reckon on the agreement that Mitch McConnell and the entire leadership of the Republican Party made to block Obama no matter what.
The only people who can close down Gitmo is Congress
So you score a swing and a miss for that.
And as for not keeping any campaign promises:
Bush in 2002 one year after 9/11
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Obama:
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He's done nothing to improve the economy, and his admin regularly fudges unemployment figures. He has, however, introduced numerous trade bill that have shipped US jobs oversees.
In spite of everything that the Republicans have done to block any intitiative by the President - including watering down the original stimulus - the US has seen job growth for every single month of his presidency after his policies started to kick in:
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The fact of the matter is that if the Republicans had not voted in Congress and in the States they control to get rid of government employees wholesale - such useless wights as police, firefighters, teachers etc. - then the recovery would have been a lot faster.
If you want to take a look at a Republican utopia you need look no further than Kansas, whose Governor's name is nomen est omen "Brownback" because he has turned that state into a shithole and the idiots there reelected him.
He regularly threatens to cut Social Security to help balance the budget, despite SS being self-funding.
That is just a flat out lie.
Obama had offered to trim cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs – known as chained CPI, in return for the Republicans being willing to cut out loopholes for the rich and getting rid of Big Oil subsidies.
He was not offering to CUT social security, just to slow down the INCREASE in Social Security benefits.
It outraged the Democrats - as it should - but Obama knew that even for the modest quid pro quo he was asking of the Republicans he would get not takers, and right enough the Republicans refused to come to the table.
He demagogues about the gender wage gap, yet women on his staff make -- get this -- 77¢ for every dollar a man makes.
Get this, Obama does not set the pay scale for government employees - Congress does.
If however all benefits exclusively accruing to women are included then their pay imbalance works out to be 96 cents for every dollar a man makes.
You might at some point in your life want to read the book by Elizabeth Warren, "he Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke"
A DINKY family now earns less than a SINKY family did in the 1970's.
Actually the progression for couples is:
YUPPIE - Young Upcoming Prosperous Professional
DINKY - Dual Income No Kids Yet
SITCOM - Single Income, Two Kids, Oppressive Mortgage
His environmental policy has been a tragedy. He let BP go with a slap on the wrist after the Gulf spill, opened up to drilling a pristine Arctic reserve that had remained untouched for over 90 years, and blocked implementation of EPA clean air regulations. His green energy program was a con, handing gov't grant money to sham energy companies set up by his biggest campaign bundlers. In Copenhagen and Rio, obama twice personally intervened to block the passage of a binding emissions agreement. At present, he is moving to green light the XL tar sands pipeline.
It would be nice if you quoted even one source for this litany of bullshit.
Just on the matter of the XL Pipeline it is the Obama Administration which has stopped it (and the inevitable pollution of the Ogallala Aquifer when such a pipeline would become the target for every national and international terrorist wanting to cripple the United States).
The bank fraud commission, set up by obama and first run by fellow lying sack of shit, Elizabeth Warren, has to date prosecuted zero bankers for the multi-billion dollar mortgage frauds they perpetrated, instead accepting token settlement fines of pennies to the dollar.
Elizabeth Warren was chair the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. The Panel released monthly oversight reports that evaluate the government bailout and related programs. During Warren's tenure, these reports covered foreclosure mitigation, consumer and small business lending, commercial real estate, AIG, bank stress tests, the impact of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on the financial markets, government guarantees, the automotive industry, and other topics.
In other words she oversaw WHAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION HAD PUT INTO PLACE AND WAS LAW BEFORE OBAMA CAME INTO OFFICE!
At least make some bloody effort to get your facts straight.
Under obama, drone strikes have increased 6x compared to Bush, with civilian casualties up 10x. obama's drone strikes are violations of the Geneva and Hague conventions, and thus war crimes.
The Bush Administration created terrorists all around the world and destroyed America's image of an honest broker. After the Bush Administration decimated the US Army (Stop-Loss and accepting 4F recruits as indicative of that decimation) Obama has used a cost effective way to curtail the activities of those who would see violence against soft non military targets as a way to expand political power.
obama was supposed to transcend racism, yet he and his supporters, and especially Attorney General, Eric Holder, play the race card at every opportunity.
Which "race card" would that be exactly?
Can you name any specifics - of course you can't.
obama is a shape-shifter, with a shady past and links to organized crime in Chicago and to the PLO.
Any credible evidence for that?
Why the fuck do I ask, because if you had you would post links to it.
You are totally pulling that one out of your ass.
For each of his successful campaigns, he has engaged in dirty dealing. obama rigged the 2008 primaries, and I believe committed vote fraud on a massive scale to win in 2012.
He did not "rig" the primaries, but rather, won the delegates he needed in States where he lost and he won States that he needed.
He outsmarted Hillary plain and simple.
Are you seriously trying to suggest that a black nobody could rig a primary against the Clinton machine and get away with it?
Obama won it because Hillary thought she had it sown up and it was all over bar the coronation (just as Martha Coakley did in Massachusetts in 2010 and got her ass handed to her by Scott Brown - who has since gone on to lose two elections to two different women in two different States including Massachusetts, which shows how pathetic she was) and relied on name instead of hard work.
Under obama, several constitutional rights have been rescinded, including the right to free assembly, protection from warrentless search & seizure, the writ of habeas corpus, the rights to due process, speedy trial, and to face one's accusers. US citizens can now be held indefinitely simply based of suspicion. From a hit list, obama selects US citizens merely suspected of collaborating with terrorists, and orders their assassination.
Can you name ANY instance of what you say?
As for killing Anwar al-Awlaki, fuck him. I would have pulled the trigger on that cunt myself.
There's much more, but I hope you get the picture.
You've supplied nothing so more of the same will not amount to anything beyond zero.
I am getting a picture of someone who might want to do more than just watch Faux News.
