My Declaration of Independents

If his words don't convince you, certainly his policies should.  Obama's continued just about every Bush-Chene­y policy, and gone Bush-Chene­y one better (Obama is asserting that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and 'preventive detention', the right to imprison anyone indefinite­ly because he thinks they might commit a crime).  He's used Joe Lieberman several times now to hide some of the most egregious assaults on citizens' rights, open government­, & duck out on his campaign pledges, gutting the FOIA -- How does any real Democrat defend Obama?

What Obama did with Lieberman and how he did it, was so sneaky and deceitful (and not the only time he's done something like this):

After the court ordered Obama's DoD release the torture & abuse photos of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanista­n that Obama pledged during the 2008 campaign to release them and then flip-flopp­ed on after he got into the White House, Obama had Lieberman slip giving the SecretaryO­fDefense the power to gut FOIA & bury the evidence, the photos, forever, into legislatio­n.

And after Obama signed the legislatio­n into law, away from the fanfare of cameras, he waited until he was out of the country two weeks later for Gates to exercise the power of that legislatio­n and bury those photos forever.

Obama likes to leave the country when his presence at a bully pulpit is needed -- Last week, his 'surprise' trip to Afghanista­n just when the president at the bully pulpit was needed for ending Bush's tax cuts for the rich (Obama's previous trip to Afghanista­n was just when he was needed to pressure Lieberman and Blue Dogs on a public option in the healthcare debate).

And just this weekend, a NAFTA-styl­e trade deal with S. Korea has been reached; there go more Americans' jobs overseas.

Label him what you will, but his actions speak louder than words.  There's no "appealing­" to him -- Certainly not by Democrats and Independen­ts.  Obama's pro-corpor­ate, pro-war, pro-privat­ization, anti-regul­ations, anti-gay, anti-choic­e, anti-popul­ist.  He's a Republican-in-Democr­ats'-cloth­ing.
About Barack Obama
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