To say that Obama continues to disappoint would be a major understatement.
It’s just a shame all the alternatives are so much worse. It’s disheartening to think the best we can do isn’t all that removed from the worst we have done. When it comes to policy decisions such as this he’s consistently as bad as, and too often worse then, President George W. Bush.
Missing portion of Obama Hope poster revealed
From Demand Progress
President Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law despite startling provisions that will allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens. It’s a travesty, defying basic principles of justice and due process in perhaps the most extreme respect our nation has ever seen.
Thankfully, several lawmakers are keeping up the fight. Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced legislation to undo these provisions of the NDAA, in the form of the Du…
He is NOWHERE near as bad as Bush Jr. Did Obama flat-out lie us into a war that cost 4484 Americans their lives? The worst thing he has done is hand our money on a silver platter to private health insurance companies.
I guess I’m just a hippy trippy optimist, but I expect a lot more from the POTUS that he or she is not “nowhere as bad as Bush Jr.” I wonder how much is simply due to Obama’s lack of guts, principles, or pragmatic assessment of what he can do with the Congress. I’ll probably never know.
Unfortunately, even if Obama did veto it, the fact that the bill passed with a super majority in the House and Senate would have made the Veto nullified.
However, there is some hope. Demand Progress is publishing Senator Diane Feinstein(D-California)’s plan to undo some of these provisions into the form of the Due Process Guarantee Act. You can find more info at http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/ndaa_reversal/?akid=1117.549835.6jFSsv&rd=1&t=2
The military cant act as police on american soil, via posse comitatus but… does this bil allow american citizens to be arrested in other countries?
In either case, it is faulty, the first on constitutional grounds, the second on jurisdictional bounds (must comply with international law, right?)
I dont know, it’s a piece-of-shit bit of law either way, in principle if not in fact, and that’s good enough for me to resist it.
Another thing I want to point out, our own country forced another country(Spain) to pass a really strict anti-piracy law
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/01/05/report-us-government-coerced-spain-passing-sinde-law
Even if we do leave America for good over this, what makes us think we’re away from the problem when the problem will just follow us to the ends of the Earth?
This is merely another stark reminder that no one in our government sincerely believes in their own rhetoric. Republicans have spent three years demagogically calling President Obama a threat to our liberty, yet they vote in large numbers to give him this practically despotic authority which he apparently did not even want. Democrats railed for eight years about Bush’s abuses, yet they supported this, which is as unconstitutional as anything that Bush ever tried.
But I will still vote for the President. Romney is a snake, Santorum is a theocrat, and Gingrich is… Gingrich. Nothing good has ever come from liberals sitting out elections due to dissatisfaction with their own candidates; it only makes the country worse off by enabling Republicans.
Ron Paul is the only votable candidate at the moment, he has yet to say anything stupid during his campaign and he wants to stop military support for Israel. I just don’t agree with his views on drugs.
I don’t think he has views on drugs, per se, but views on over-reaching federal authority telling people what they can or can’t do with their bodies, despite not owning them. You think the government should tell your mind how to function, and what you can put into it? Now that Steve Jobs is dead, I guess you need someone.