Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

When Obama blocked investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns into the Bush administra­tion, that should have awakened all Americans to the fact that Democrats were in on everything that BushCheney did.  Obama is just as culpable and in-bed-wit­h transnatio­nal corporatio­ns as BushCo.  

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the rule of law.  BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too.  Elected officials especially­.  

Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama broke the covenant that the American people have with the government­.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.  It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When the rule of law isn't equally applied to all, we can no longer trust in the process.  And when that happens all bets are off.  When the trust is gone, no government can stand.  For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over. 

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. From those precedents spring aberration­.

Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'­, asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventiv­e detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understand­ing.

And now, we have 'Iraq: Deja Vu all over again' with Libya.
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