Obama's Legacy Of Shame

Obama's Legacy of Shame - by Stephen Lendman

He sold out to Wall Street, war profiteers, and other corporate crooks.

Promising change after eight Bush/Republican years, Obama delivered betrayal. 

With congressional Democrats, he exceeded Bush's harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal. 

He violating every major domestic and foreign issue promise made. As a result, he's been complicit in:

• looting the nation's wealth, wrecking the economy, and consigning growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, savings, social services, or futures; 

• giving Wall Street crooks greater money power, disguised as financial reform;

• waging multiple imperial wars and occupations, spending more on militarism than the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies;

• belligerently ousting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and Libya's Gaddafi; 

• promoting regime change in Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Lebanon, and elsewhere against independent leaders, while continuing support for the world's most ruthless, corrupt tyrants;

• presiding over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus;

• continuing Bush's worst lawless policies; adding more of his own, including indefinite detentions without charge, and deploying Special Forces death squads in over 120 countries to kill targeted suspects, including Americans;

• targeting whistleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, Latino immigrants, and environmental and animal rights activists called terrorists;

• illegally spying on Americans more aggressively than Bush;

• destroying decades of hard won labor rights;

• waging class war to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public and private pensions, as well as other New Deal and Great Society gains;

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