POLITICS: Obama is the Best Republican President Since Lincoln

POLITICS: Obama is the Best Republican President Since Lincoln

Short and sweet: Good points.

LINK URL: http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/obama-best-republican-president-lincoln

 

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at UN | Washington’s Blog

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Top 45 Lies in Obama’s Speech at UN | Washington’s Blog

Pretty good analysis.

It’s sad that George Fucking Bush is at this point seeming to be a more honest president than Obama.

Bush did bad and mostly admitted it as him just being an asshole with an asshole agenda; Obama does the same shit but tries to frame it as if he’s not doing it.

LINK URL: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/top-45-lies-in-obamas-speech-at-un.html

 

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Well-sourced list of 252 examples of lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Well-sourced list of 252 examples of lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.

Wow.

I’m not going to pretend to have read all this (got about 50 in so far), but the onus to read this list is really on the people who are still making excuses to defend our current jackass of a president.

LINK URL: https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/

 

BIG BROTHER: The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama’s Presidency – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic

BIG BROTHER: The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama’s Presidency – Conor Friedersdorf – The Atlantic

And yet, there are many who still think Obama is a good president because he’s better than McCain would have been.  

That’s kind of like saying vomit is a good food because it’s better than eating feces.

This is a nice deconstruction of Obama’s bullshit, which half the country seems to swallow hook, line, and sinker.

Obama has taken away as much civil liberty as Bush at this point, if not more.

Great job.

LINK URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-surveillance-speech-a-low-point-in-barack-obamas-presidency/278565/

 

POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination

POLITICS: Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination

A great interview with a great man.

At least some people on the left can acknowledge that Obama is not really left or liberal.

The amazing part is how people just plug their fingers into their ears and pretend like none of this is real.

LINK URL: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/noam-chomsky-obamas-attack-civil-liberties-has-gone-way-beyond-imagination?ak_proof=1&akid=.20860.o8hxm8&rd=1&src=newsletter831496&t=9&paging=off

 

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Executive Order Grants US Gov’t New Powers Over Communication Systems

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Executive Order Grants US Gov’t New Powers Over Communication Systems

Obama: Continually proving himself as bad for civil rights as George W. Bush ever was. 

Seizing private communications facilities so that they are silenced? Really?

This is unconstitutional, anti-American, police-state bullshit. The type I’ve come to expect from Obama & Bush.

But oh. It’s to make us safer from a terrorist attack, right? So it’s okay, then. Just like the internet kill switch is okay! When Iran/Libya/Egypt seize communcations, it’s bad. When we do it, it’s good. America, fuck yeah.

And don’t say this was already law, or the executive order would have not been needed. If someplace is communicating something that actually incites violence, there are already laws in place to deal with that.

LINK URL: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/10/1611237/executive-order-grants-us-govt-new-powers-over-communication-systems?utm_source=feedburnerGoogle+Reader&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

 

GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY: Obama asserts executive privilege on Fast and Furious documents

GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY: Obama asserts executive privilege on Fast and Furious documents

Begin sarcasm:
Wow, Obama is sure upholding his promise for a more transparent government!

LINK URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/20/politics/holder-contempt/index.html

 

LINK: WAR ON TERROR: Bin Laden body was flown To US military mortuary

WAR ON TERROR: Bin Laden body was flown To US military mortuary

It’s sad that ANONYMOUS and Wikileaks have more credibility to me than the U.S. government. Very sad.
LINK URL: https://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,10164.0/topicseen.html

 

LINK: JOURNALISM VS. WAR ON TERROR: Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment – Salon.com

JOURNALISM VS. WAR ON TERROR: Obama’s personal role in a journalist’s imprisonment – Salon.com

This is pretty damning. Journalist releases something USA and Yemen lied to their people about. Wikileaks then verifies it. Yemen imprisons journalist as if he’s a terrorist for saying something America doesn’t like. Local leaders and Amnesty International get mad.

Pardon is drafted up. Obama then literally called Yemen when they had the pardon written up, in order to ensure that this journalist stay in jail and the pardon disappear. Which happens after the phone call.

This is direct action. This is not Congress’s fault, this is not Obama being a puppet of vast machinery he has no control of. 

And oh, we still have secret prisons just like under the Bush Administration. Obama just tricked Obama-supporters into thinking he stopped Bush’s practice. He did not. As usual, Obama continues Bush’s practices, but more secretively. 

And at this point, is The New York Times even worth wiping one’s ass on? This is the paper that knew we were being wiretapped by the government, and sat on the story for a year. Among many other things, New York Times is now, to me, the least reliable major newspaper in existence.

LINK URL: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_journalists_imprisonment/singleton

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LINK: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Attorney General Holder Says Murder Is Legal –

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Attorney General Holder Says Murder Is Legal –

To those who said that NDAA would not be applicable to American citizens…

To those who said that because the law did not modify previous law, it meant that Americans could not be assassinated…

To those who defended the Obama administration, and his appointee, Eric Holder…

…Here is our attorney general directly arguing that assassinating american citizens without judicial oversite is perfectly constitutional.

You see, existing law never needed to be modified. Just clarified by Bush’s actions and Obama’s legitimization of those actions. 

And here is our attorney general directly saying it.

There’s no denying it.

LINK URL: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/attorney-general-holder-says-murder-is-legal.html

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LINK: WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban will rule Afghanistan again, says leaked US report

LINK: WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: Taliban will rule Afghanistan again, says leaked US report

And once again, the truth comes out: Like every nation to ever invade Afghanistan in the past 150 years, we will leave without significantly changing anything.

Obama’s not stupid, had to have known this, sent in more troops than Bush ever had, and did so after promising to end our unnecessary Bush-era wars. But instead we had more troop deaths under Obama, and lost tons of tax money fighting a fight that made no real difference. Bin Laden wasn’t even found there!

LINK URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/01/taliban-rule-afghanistan-leaked-report/print
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