And,
the morning after his re-election, and a week after the devastation of
Superstorm Sandy, Barack Obama further confirmed my low opinion of him by
talking about the deficit and working with Republicans, with no mention of
unemployment, poverty, inequality, or catastrophic climate change. As a lame-duck President who no longer needs
to worry about re-election, this was his chance to set a better, more
human-focused tone for his last term.
Instead, he chose to mouth platitudes comforting to Wall Street, not Main
Street.
In
spite of this clear record, too many "liberals" and Democrats choose to judge
Obama's record by a double standard which they would ordinarily object
to.
Consider
that, if a Republican President
-
had claimed the "right" to kill anyone, any time, anywhere on earth, without
trial or having to make known any evidence about this "suspect", in mockery of
habeas corpus, based solely on a "Kill List" determined by a few
advisors, committing extra-judicial executions of the sort committed by kings,
emperors, and dictators, asserting the authority to exercise this power over
life and death which had correctly been denounced when tyrants exercised it, and
yet arrogantly claiming it is legal;
- had then used this claim of absolute, tyrannical power to kill three U.S. citizens abroad without trial, including a 16 year-old boy and his 17 year-old cousin;
-
had
authorized expanded drone strikes which also killed hundreds of innocent
civilians throughout Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, and Africa, and
refused to provide information about the numbers of these victims, even though
the U.S. is not officially at war with most of those countries and violates
their sovereignty and airspace;
-
had created a "Kill Matrix" or, in its official, Orwellian title, a "Disposition
Matrix" to permanently expand the drone warfare/war on terror both worldwide and
without end;
-
had
increased U.S. "special ops" teams which not only gather information, but
actively interfere in foreign countries by meddling in their politics and
committing sabotage and assassinations, from operations in 75 countries (under
Bush/Cheney) to more than 120 countries, including Iran and many others with
which we are NOT officially at war;
-
had
massively increased U.S. military and "special ops" & CIA "interventions"
throughout Africa as AfriCom, the U.S. military Command for Africa set up by
Bush/Cheney, grows more powerful and pervasive throughout that continent where
overt colonialism had once oppressed its populations;
-
had
escalated U.S. involvement in Afghanistan despite the huge unpopularity, both
here and abroad, of that endless, unwinnable war, which costs us one million
dollars per year for each U.S. soldier stationed there and which has killed or
maimed uncounted numbers of Afghan's civilians;
-
had
refused to prosecute the war crimes of the previous administration, thereby
violating his oath of office as well as the United Nations Commission Against
Torture;
-
had reneged on his campaign promise to close the prison in Guatanamo Bay, where
many innocent people still languish;
-
had
sent U.S. nuclear-armed fleets to the South China Sea to intimidate China and
proclaimed that the western Pacific is the new area of focus for U.S. forces;
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