[Marxism] Buyers' Remorse - Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> *Buyers Remorse*
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> *Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain? *
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> *By Mike Whitney
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> May 18, 2009 "**Information Clearing 
> House*<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/>
> *" --- A*nyone who has ever wasted good money on a clunker only to drop
> the transmission 15 minutes after leaving the car-lot, knows the feeling.
> It's like a swift-kick in the groin followed by weeks of fist-pounding rage.
> It's called buyer's remorse; "Gawd, I wish I hadn't bought that piece of
> dogshite!"
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> There are probably a lot of former-Obama supporters feeling that same
> agonizing sense despair now that President Rainbow has done an about-face on
> every campaign promise he made. So much for "truth in advertising", eh?
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> What a disaster. Did anyone know it was gonna be this bad?
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> For the record; I didn't vote for Obama because I didn't like the way he
> backpedaled on wiretapping and because he promised to escalate the war in
> Afghanistan. (Like everyone else who voted for Ralph Nader; I got loads of
> grief for it) But that doesn't mean I didn't want Obama to succeed. I did.
> The country is in too big a mess NOT to hope that he would succeed. But
> now...?
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> Let's just forget about the fact that Obama never lifted a finger to stop
> Israel's two week rampage through Gaza which killed 1,100 unarmed civilians
> and destroyed much of the critical infrastructure. And let's give him a pass
> for equivocating on Iran, Georgia, missile defense in East Europe, Cuba,
> NAFTA, FISA, torture, war crimes, the Employee free Choice Act (EFCA) and
> any other issue that's important to liberals, progressives, leftists or
> anyone else who eats with a fork or walks on two legs. And let's excuse
> Obama for stepping up the air war in Afghanistan even though another 140
> Afghan villagers were blown to bits 10 days ago while sitting in their
> schools, sleeping in their beds or having dinner with their families. (After
> all, Obama did say he was sorry, didn't he?)
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> But now Obama is backing off on his promise to withdrawal troops from Iraq
> in 16 months. And, now he's planning to restore Bush's kangaroo courts
> (Military tribunals) for prisoners at Guantanamo who've never even been
> formally charged with a crime! And, now, he's threatening to hold some
> prisoners indefinitely in the U.S. without trial. (
> http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/14/obama-mulls-indefinite-detention-without-trial-for-detainees/)
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> I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea
> that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all
> those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail.
> That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system
> rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in
> habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they
> don't believe in the underlying principles.
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> Does Khalid Sheik Mohamed--the so-called "9-11 mastermind"-- deserve his
> day in court?
> You're damn right he does! That's how the system works. Deal with it.
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> Obama is an unprincipled poseur; a snake charmer; a complete phony. No
> wonder the gushing David Brooks has been singing his praises lately. No
> wonder Andrew Sullivan calls him the "Neocon in Chief". Heck, even Cheney
> was talking-up Obama's bloody AfPak policy a few days ago. That says it all,
> doesn't it?
> Here's a blurp from Murdoch's far-right rag, The Wall Street Journal, that
> sums up Obama perfectly:
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> "Mr. Obama deserves credit for accepting that civilians courts are largely
> unsuited for the realities of the war on terror. He has now decided to
> preserve a tribunal process that will be identical in every material way to
> the one favored by Dick Cheney."
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> Hypocrite.
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> We'd be better off with that doddering old fool McCain. At least with
> McCain you know what you're getting.
> http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm
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> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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