What is becoming more and more difficult is the Democrat left differentiating Obama's policies and Bush (43's) legacy. There is practically no Bush policy that candidate Obama ran against, that he has not now embraced (with the exception of an official policy allowing toture). The liberal bloggers that blame conservatives for the concentration of wealth, and the middle class losing ground seem to have forgotten that it is now year 5 of President Obama's policies. Even the liberal Mother Jones has to question what happened to the Obama promises
From Guantanamo to Limitless War, Obama's Failure to Live Up to His Own Five Commandments
Below is a portion of a post from a liberal blogger (WS) that is almost comical in it's hubris that they are not describing their own President.
(WS)
Modern
conservatives have much in common with Fascism, they are for a strong
military police type state where everyone is monitored and controlled as
well as concentrating power and wealth at the top. Republicans
championed the Patriot Act and are responsible for reducing many of
Americans personal freedoms. Income disparity is a direct result of
conservatives deregulating the financial markets and weakening unions.*
As far as fascism, very few understood what
candidate Obama meant when he called for a “civilian national security force being
just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the U.S.
military"; we now know it was his intention to expand Homeland Security
as a federal police force. While Bush may have championed the Patriot act, the vote in 2001 and
the subsequent reauthorizations under President Obama; the Patriot
Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and the Patriot Sunsets
Extension Act of 2011 all received bipartisan approval with a majority
of both parties. Then you have President Obama signing the NDAA law with its
provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens and self derived
power allowing his killing of an American citizen overseas, who are
deemed terrorist without due process along with non-American citizens
(he says has a list where he personally gives a gladiatorial contest
thumbs down when the drone has the victim in it's sight ; and now the
lawyer that wrote the law brief saying it is legal to kill American
citizen terrorists has been nominated by Obama to a federal appellate
court. You may remember how Obama castigated Bush and the Iraq war for invading a country and overthrowing it's leadership when the country did not constitute a national security threat, yet now Obama has been part and parcel of the overthrow of Libya, Egypt
and the attempted overthrow of Syria; all three not approaching anything close to a national security threat and are now more unstable
and dangerous than before.
*(continued) Make no mistake about it as discontent grows there will be a correction
just as there was after the great depression which ushered in several
decades of progressive power including the New Deal policies that
benefit working people to this day.
Is this really the correction the Democrats are championing? Do you really think that President Obama is offering the American people anything that reeks of a new Deal? FDR put people to work, Obama has lowered unemployment by discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force; FDR built and re-build the national infrastructure; the Obama Stimulus couldn't find any shovel ready jobs (which Obama later admitted never existed to begin with). And while the President wants universal healthcare, all that has happened is millions of cancelled heathcare policies and new policies that have less coverage and are more expensive. And then there is promise about keeping your health-plan and /or doctor if you like both or either; funny, I don't remember FDR
lying to the American people when he was championing the New Deal.
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