Obama is not the first president to divide
the spoils of his presidency among his supporters but he is perhaps the most
obvious.
Looking at the history of his relationship
with Wall Street to his support of Oil and all the large corporate interests, tells
the tale of a man who fooled a nation. Yet
in the face of a failed presidency, the Republicans have failed to present a
believable candidate, while America continues to cringe on the verge of a
revolution.
As a candidate who promised change, he
delivered a mystery of mixed prospects. From an escalation of the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, to entering new battle fronts through his drone warfare
escalation in six countries, to the execution of American Citizens without
trial, to the NDAA giving himself the power to hold American Citizens
indefinitely, to his protection and enabling of continued corruption by his Wall
Street handlers.
But most blatantly his refusal to seek
criminal prosecutions of the Wall Street insiders who have played a large part
over financing his public office candidacy, and his friendship for JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon
The man who promised change retained the
bush advisors. Increased defence spending and passed the nations first health
care law that failed to address the real numbers of America’s uninsured, while
it leaves millions to remain uninsured. The health care law did one thing; it assured
the solvency of the insurance industry, an industry that took a hit from the
foreclosure epidemic. But in funding the
insurance industry President Obama showed his true interest which does not lay
with America’s most needy, the unemployment, or a failed economy.
But what he did do is even more systemic
of a government that no longer represents the governed;
Obama Signed the NDAA into law
-- making it legal to assassinate Americans w/o trial; Personally oversees a 'Secret Kill List'; Waged war on Libya without congressional approval; Started
a covert, drone war in Yemen;
Escalated the proxy war in Somalia;
Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan;
Was thrown out of Iraq; Sharply
escalated the war in Afghanistan; Secretly
deployed US special forces to 75
countries; Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia; Opened a military
base in Chile;
Touted nuclear power, for the
nuclear power lobby, even after the disaster in Japan; Opened up deepwater oil drilling, even after the BP disaster; Signed the Patriot Act extension into law knowing the law is fundamentally
flawed and is unconstitutional; Continued Bush's rendition program; Kept his promise to not
prosecute CIA torturers; Gives
Shell Green Light to Start Risky Arctic
Drilling; Sent 200 Marines to Guatemala to fight drug trafficking; Authorized covert support for
Syrian rebels; Obama signs
executive order giving himself control
of all communication systems in America; Under Obama, the export of American arms to countries
around the world -- even those actively repressing their own citizens -- is
booming. The United States is the world's top provider of major conventional
weapons; helped the C.I.A. to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition, as part of PNAC the “project for a new American
century plan for world dominance”; Obama administration rejects
FOIA requests from NYT, ACLU for "targeted
killing" Obama order set off wave of cyberattacks against Iran; Obama's 'Poverty-Relieving' Plan for Africa a
Profit Boon for Giant Agribusiness and
his ties to Monsanto; Obama has opened three new military bases in Honduras; Proposes Polar Bear Extinction Plan;
fast-tracked segment of Keystone pipeline
against US interests; signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources; signs anti-protest trespass bill into law; Obama's
Attorney General says U.S. can
assassinate American citizens abroad (without being charged with anything or
given a trial); White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance; We're
#47! After Occupy Journalist Arrests, US Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings; The
White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance
from the U.S. The announcement came amid an outbreak of violence between two
South Sudanese tribes that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people
needing aid; Obama
Signs NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill into Law, The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite
detention provision; Expand military in Australia
2,500 US Marines to be stationed in Australia; Obama's Offshore Oil Plan a Disaster for Wildlife, Climate; Obama's new
war in Uganda; Obama's proposal to
gut Freedom of Information Act; As
troops pull out of Iraq, Obama
plans more combat forces elsewhere in the Middle East; New Obama Foreclosure Plan Helps Banks At
Taxpayers' Expense; Obama Waives Penalties on Countries That Employ Child Soldiers; Obama accommodates Turkey's request for drone aircraft in
fight against Kurdish separatists; Blocked release of Photos & videos of Bin Laden's killing because they would
allegedly reveal military and intelligence secrets and could lead to violence
against U.S. personnel; Obama quietly renews U.S. embargo on Cuba; Obama secretly sold
bunker-busting bombs to Israel; US
Resumes Arms Sales to Bahrain.
Less than three months after including Bahrain on a list of human rights
offenders requiring the United Nations' attention; Obama silent as U.S. murders
Troy Davis; Assembling secret drone bases in Africa,
Arabian Peninsula; "Obama cozies up to Uzbekistan dictator" - lobbies congress to sell more military
equipment to one of the world's most repressive leaders; Building new massive
prison in Bagram, Afghanistan; Obama
Pushes NAFTA Style Trade Policy
Despite 2008 Promise; Obama said that if the Palestinians try to achieve statehood in the UN Security Council,
the US will oppose the proposal; Obama abandoned a contentious new air pollution rule, buoying business
interests that had lobbied heavily against it; Libya is essentially a "NATO enforced regime change" and
President Obama is "implementing the Bush domino agenda in the Middle
East"; Obama’s secret war in 120 countries, Somewhere
on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission; Obama's Debt
Deal 'Trades People's Livelihoods for the Votes of a Few Unappeasable
Right-Wing Radicals'; 99 Out of 101 Torture
Cases Dropped to benefit of CIA; U.S. millions fund world’s newest army, South Sudan, despite worries of its
human rights abuses, including killings, most recently in April when hundreds
of civilians were killed or wounded by the U.S. ally; The Obama administration expanded
its drone war to Somalia, which
makes six countries where the United States is using drones to conduct lethal
attacks: Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen; Also, the US is
supplying drone aircrafts to Uganda
and Burundi to help them
fight in Somalia; Obama
Admin Warns of “Fines and Incarceration” if U.S. Citizens Set Sail with Gaza Aid Flotilla; Just prior to Obama's speech on
withdrawing some troops from Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers awarded a $14.2 million contract to a Turkish company to construct an
eight-building barracks complex for 12,000 troops at Bagram Air Field.
Completion date is scheduled for fall of 2013; Whistleblowers Suffer More than Ever Under Obama;
This list
is endless!
Obama’s
record is perhaps one of the worst of any president in modern times, he was a
man that not only lacked experience but played to it.
America has an
overkill military; we have the largest budget in the world and are incapable, with
all our technology and man power, of winning a war... Think Iraq, Afghanistan,
Vietnam and Korea for starters!
Another way of
looking at it is this: Obama 'inherited' two wars, both of them in violation of
international law. Afghanistan did not attack us. He greatly expanded that war,
escalated the war into Pakistan and other states, dropped special ops troops
into a dozen African nations, overthrew Libya and lied about the reasons and
our use of mercenaries which caused the 'uprising', expanded the 'anti-drug'
war in Honduras after acceding to the military coup there... in short, he's
greatly expanded America's military presence almost everywhere. His undermining
of the constitution is worse than anything Nixon or Bush ever did.
We are to be engaged in a 100 year war to stamp out terrorism…But Most people
have no idea what Terrorism is. It is not an enemy, it is an ideology of people
without a standing army...The way to deal with this ideology is to change the battleground,
war and killing will never end terrorism, it will Embolden it because for every
terrorist killed 10 more will take their place...they become martyrs for their
cause...We are not involved in a war against terrorism, because we are using a
method that is destined to fail…we are engaged in a war to eliminate our rights
as a free people…Using the ploy of terrorism to accomplish it... And this ploy has
been very successful…
Obama has relegated our First, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth amendment rights to history… we are watched and followed
wherever we go on the net, our emails are saved and read, our phone
conversations are being recorded, our library records and phone calls are
monitored; We are subject to search by any law enforcement officer without a
warrant, and without probable cause, we are monitored because of our ethnic
heritage, We are subject to arrest and detention without a presentation of
charges, without representation and without a trial; we are watched through
numbers of cameras strategically placed for that purpose while drones are to be
engaged to watch us more closely. We are
no longer allowed the right to assemble and petition or the right to speech to
criticize the government, we are monitored through our own computers and the
back door placed in programs we rely on; our satellites can follow us wherever
we travel, and we can be assassinated for speaking out against the policies of
our own government…
Give some thought to
this!
We pay for war but let our infrastructure rot (Bridges, Roads, and
Schools)
We pay for war but have no jobs. (The real numbers of Unemployed may be
as high as 40 million people)
We pay for war and have a disintegrated educational system. (America
has received scores around 500 on a scale that goes up to 1,000: 487 in math,
500 in reading and 502 in science. The three-yearly OECD Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and
skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around the world, ranked the United
States 14th out of 34 OECD countries for reading skills, 17th for science and
25th for mathematics)
We pay subsidies to Big Oil, go to war to
protect their interests and create great vast riches for the military
industrial complex through non-competitive bid contracts.
We give loans interest free to institutions that are monopolies and allow them
the become our creditors with no money out of pocket, then, allow them to write
off profits made from our taxes through tax loopholes.
This is the failed presidency of a man who
rode a white horse and promised change we can believe in!
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