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had
enthusiastically, but virtually secretly, promoted the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP), a massive new international trade pact being pushed by transnational
corporations, involving the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,
Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, but which could also
include Japan, Korea, China and others, and would become "a NAFTA on steroids
for the Pacific", with the usual outsourcing of U.S. jobs to lower-paying job
markets;
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had
supported tar sands pipelines (all of which leak and some of which are on land
over precious fresh water aquifers in the U.S. West), drilling offshore
(remember B.P. in the Gulf of Mexico?) and in the Arctic, and fracking for
natural gas, all of which will increase human destruction of our only planet and
further accelerate already-increasing catastrophic climate change;
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had
done NOTHING to mitigate or reverse catastrophic climate change, the one natural
disaster which threatens all of us, but especially our children and future
generations;
then
liberals and Democrats and Alternet and Truthout and Truthdig and Common Dreams
and MoveOn and The Nation and The Progressive and In These Times, and all the
other "liberal", Democratic Party-friendly web sites and blogs and publications
would be screaming for the defeat of this terrible, murderous,
constitution-destroying, warmongering, anti-environmental president. And they
would all be correct.
So why should Obama's dismal, anti-environment, anti-human, pro-war, pro-militarism, pro-corporate record be "ignored"? He has already done so much harm that he should be impeached, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, NOT re-elected.
Obama's Claim of Absolute Power
The fact remains that Barack Obama STILL claims the power to order extra-judicial executions of anyone, anywhere, based on his say-so and his "Kill List"/"Disposition Matrix". Romney wants to have this same power as president. They are assassins or would-be assassins, and few commentators are talking about how immoral and illegal this is.
Tyrants and dictators and ruthless kings and queens always claimed the "authority" to have anyone killed, and the right of habeas corpus was created through centuries of bloody struggles, and the American Revolution was fought, at least in part, against this absolute power over life and death. Why is this claim of absolute power OK when Obama says so and Romney wants the same power? Why are few pundits questioning this illegal, immoral assertion of god-like power over others' lives? Why do so many Americans go along with this assertion of absolute power when it's THEIR president who asserts this power and orders these extra-judicial executions, when they correctly and jusitifiably would be outraged if Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserted it and had people killed, by drones or otherwise, due to such an assertion of ruthless power?
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