| | | Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post, Gerronimo. Your points are well taken. I have indeed grown increasingly dissatisfied with Obama, though I've not watched a single minute of FOX news. I don't watch TV, but I have many print and internet news and editorial sources that most here would claim was left wing propaganda. But I think for myself.
I didn't set out to write about the good things Obama had done, nor did I mean to make it a dissertation. I simply dashed off the headline items which came to mind representing my personal disappointment with Obama -- some of which I see you agree with.
You're absolutely right in saying that the Republican-controlled Congress has done everything they can since day one to thwart Obama's policies, taking the country to the brink of financial default and working overtime against everything he tries to do. I understand that.
But they didn't make him send more troops and drones into Afghanistan and they didn't make him sign the NDAA. They didn't force him to increase warrantless spying on all of us. They didn't force him to violate the Posse Comitatus act and militarize the police or build 300 FEMA camps.
My first big disappointment with Obama was that he let everyone in the Bush administration go unpunished for such things as authorizing the use of torture in violation of the Geneva Convention and lying to Congress and America to mislead us into two multi-trillion dollar wars (while cutting taxes mainly to the rich). He's nearly through his fifth year in office and I keep hearing how he's going to shut down Guantanamo. When?
I know Obama took office amid one of the worst economic crises since the great depression, but I don't agree that he's done a good job by appointing ex-Goldman Sax execs to handle our finances, nor has he made any sort of attempt to reinstate the Glass-Steagall act and other banking reforms that would have gone a long way to protect us from the situation we now find ourselves in. Like Bush before -- he's let the foxes guard the hen-house.
At any rate, it's getting late and I've already written more than I intended to -- so perhaps I've not addressed your comments in full.
I'd love to see the ACA work out and eventually evolve into a single-payer system. And if that were possible, I fully expect the Tea Party types of the future will demand to keep it. |
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