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. Although he projected himself as a liberal Democrat during the presidential campaign, he has governed as a moderate Republican. The appointments he made to key positions on his economic team, such as Summers and Geithner, powerful advocates of the radical deregulation policies that helped create the economic meltdown, support the notion that Obama is Wall Street’s president.
Governed as a moderate Republican? Health care, stimulus, giving away GM to the unions, extending unemployment, etc etc etc. Foreign policy is the only area where he has been somewhat moderate, and with START and timelines for Afghanistan he's slipping back. His financial appointees? LMAO, he found the most left of the bankers who support his "spend your way out of the recession" that he could. There is no credible source for hands on fiscal/monetaary policy advisors than Wall Street.
And it goes on from there: Obama expanded, in increasingly insidious ways, the national security state and, as a consequence, he broadened the legal foundation for fascism begun by Bush.
Oooh the facism card. In what insidious ways as he done anything to expand a "national security state". The first step in doing that is securing the fucking borders. FAIL
For example, if Obama deems an American citizen to be a terrorist, he claims the right as President to order that person killed. No need for any due process of law. As for military spending, the Obama administration has far exceeded that of its hawkish predecessor.
He campaigned on expanding the war in Afganistan and capturing bin Laden. Due process for terrorists? Square that with civilian trials.
They view him today as fundamentally a servant of corporate and financial interests. Although On the domestic front, Obama signed a health care bill without a public option that will provide more than 30 million new “customers” to the private insurance companies but that does nothing to control the cost of insurance premiums. For most Americans, access to the bill’s positive provisions will remain dependent on the soaring cost of private health insurance.
If he understood health care "reform" he would know that the end result IS a public option. He's right that it will do nothing to control costs, but it does nothing to "advance corporate and financial interests" and is as socialist a policy as he could manage to hide.
Obama, once a professor of constitutional law, elected to make a mockery of the rule of law by not holding members of the Bush administration and the CIA responsible for such war crimes as murder and torture, and by not criminally prosecuting those corporate insiders responsible for the toxic mortgages and other financial instruments that led to the global economic collapse.
Bush/CIA did nothing illegal. A prosecution would be a mockery of the rule of law. Insiders responsible for toxic mortgages? Barney Frank Chris Dodd,and Maxine Water are all too powerful and supported the same far left social policies that Obama believes in.
But Obama’s credibility with even these voters is being further eroded for having negotiated a deal with the Republicans that allows for the Bush tax cuts to be extended for a further two years for the wealthiest Americans. That will exacerbate the exceedingly high rate of social inequality in the U.S., provide little or no stimulus to the economy, and add 700 billion dollars to the deficit over the next ten years. Most importantly, Obama has almost guaranteed that in the future the Bush tax cuts will become permanent and that pressure will grow for deficit reduction to come from significant cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or other social programs that the neediest Americans depend upon.
Be grateful for what you got. The deal was a huge win for Obama and far better than he would get in January.
In short, Obama failed to put up a real fight on a slew of vital issues he passionately supported as a candidate.
Yeah, he hid behind Pelosi and Reid's skirts but they were just carrying his water. How long was it after the inauguration that he told the GOP to fuck off, he won the election? A "fight" wasnt needed, Pelosi and Reid just shut down any chance for the GOP to participate.
. From 2002 to 2007, more than half of the nation’s income gains went to the richest 1 percent of households.
Outsourcing of manufacturing jobs due to onerous regulation and tax policies contributed greatly to the disparity. But WTF does it have to do with Obama?
The author is a far left idealogue for whom anything to the right of him is facist. Its a moronic rant.
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