Why Is Lincoln a Baddie?
The current President can do everything his predecessors did, and then some. All while getting away with it to his most loyal supporters and the media establishment. The double standard for him has to stop if there is any hope for politics in this country. I have conjured up some facts about the 44th President of the United States to help you dissolve this double standard that is in place.
To begin with I was an adamant supporter of Mr. Obama in 2008. As the years went on, his actions as President showed me how I was deceived. I sincerely believe any support the man has remaining is those who truly believe he is the less evil guy to choose. To his credit, previous Presidents have put these policies in practice and on the books. My goal for this work is to show you that Barack Obama is no different than other politicians with his continuation and expansion of these policies.
The Red Pill of Barack Obama.
Foreign Policy:
*Obama has acknowledged he is proud of his “Drone Presidency”. He’s launched 100’s of more drone strikes than his predecessor. An estimated 178 children have been killed by Barack Obama’s drone strikes. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai told Obama that the collateral damage of these drone strikes is fueling terrorism. I am in agreement with her.
(http://thinkprogress.org/…/2…/malala-yousafzai-obama-drones/) (http://www.fair.org/…/missing-malalas-message-of-peace-dro…/) (http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2224627) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/obama-drone-strikes-due-process)*President Obama unilaterally decided to fund and arm Muslim rebels in Syria in attempt to overthrow their government throughout the year of 2013. It was known that these rebel groups were religious extremists who had connections with Al-Qaeda. These rebel groups now make up a large part of ISIS.
(http://news.yahoo.com/obama-step-military-support-syrian…) (http://www.nytimes.com/…/al-qaeda-insinuating-its-way…&)(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/US-secretly-backs-rebels…) (http://www.foxnews.com/…/mmajority-foreign-fighters…/%29)(http://www.nationalreview.com/…/how-obama-caused-isis…) (http://www.mintpressnews.com/west-created-isis/196488/)*The President promised to end the war in Iraq. But he pulled the troops out the same time Bush would have in 2011. In fact he actually tried to extend the deadline for their presence but the Iraqi Government put its foot down. Today our military presence in Iraq is continued to fight the terrorist group ISIS.
(http://world.time.com/…/iraq-not-obama-called-time-on…/)(http://www.salon.com/2011/10/21/about_that_iraq_withdrawal/)(http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/10/21/gIQAfCYM7L_blog.html) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obamas-iraq-withdrawal…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/25/us-departure-iraq-illusion)*Our Nobel Peace prize winning President has bombed 7 countries during his two terms.
(http://www.independent.co.uk/…/peace-president-how-obama-ca…) (http://www.politifact.com/…/lizza-says-obama-has-bombed-mo…/) (http://www.politifact.com/…/lz-granderson-obama-has-bombed…/)*In 2013 he literally tried military intervention in Syria over sketchy evidence of “Weapons of Mass Destruction.“ Congress and the majority of the country told him no.
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/…/remarks-president-obama-address…) (http://www.christianpost.com/…/president-obama-syria-speec…/ ) (http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/31/world/meast/syria-civil-war/)( http://thinkprogress.org/…/253…/syria-chemical-weapons-saga/*Over 75% of Casualties in the Afghanistan war have been under his watch, after he surged more troops into the country in 2009.
(http://cnsnews.com/…/12-year-war-73-us-casualties-afghanist… )(http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1043)(http://www.newyorker.com/…/obama-and-the-bush-legacy-a-scor…)*He is going to keep a quasi-permanent occupation of Afghanistan with over 10,000 troops remaining there till at least 2024.
(http://www.nytimes.com/…/a…/afghan-pact-kerry-apology-.html…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/us-troops-afghanistan-2024-oba…)*The President continues to fund and give military aid to the Egyptian Military who overthrew a democratically elected government in Egypt.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-u-s-gives-egypt-1-5-bi…/) (http://fpif.org/u-s-still-funding-oppression-egypt/) (http://www.npr.org/…/egypt-may-not-need-fighter-jets-but-u-…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/egypt-coup-catastrophe-mohamed…) (http://www.nytimes.com/20…/…/04/world/middleeast/egypt.html…)*While he will deny it, his handling of the situation in the Ukraine has lead us into another cold war with Russia. He is flooding Eastern Europe with foreign and military aid. Including stationing troops.
(http://www.reuters.com/…/us-ukraine-crisis-sanctions-obama-…) (http://www.stripes.com/…/us-troop-presence-at-ukrainian-exe…) (http://abcnews.go.com/…/us-troops-head-to-latvia-as-russia…/) (http://rt.com/news/154556-us-troops-drills-poland/)*An issue that personally bugs me is his assassination of a 16 year old American citizen named Abdulrahman Al Awlaki with a drone strike. No trial, no jury, or lawyer to defend Adulrahman. He was killed because we didn’t like who his father was. That is one of the most totalitarian notions that can exist in a society.
(http://www.nytimes.com/…/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.…) (http://nymag.com/…/grandfather-asks-why-teen-was-killed-by-…)(http://www.democracynow.org/…/exclusive_nasser_al_awlaki_to…)Civil Liberties:
*The President’s Administration is cracking down on journalists and suppressing them. “A coalition of 38 journalism advocacy groups penned an open letter to President Obama urging him to better foster transparency and curb systemic censorship within his administration and the federal government.”
(http://dailysignal.com/…/journalists-say-obama…/) (http://www.salon.com/…/journalists_casualties_in_the_war_o…/) (http://www.thedailybeast.com/…/obama-s-war-on-journalism-an…) (http://www.csmonitor.com/…/Obama-administration-targets-Fox…)*The President’s administration has cracked down on whistleblowers that are exposing government wrong-doing more than any administration in history. Specifically with the Espionage Act, a draconian law which was used in 1918 by Woodrow Wilson to throw people in prison for speaking out against World War 1.
(http://www.mintpressnews.com/obama-administration-secure…/…/)(http://www.politifact.com/…/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-esp…/) (http://america.aljazeera.com/…/obama-and-leakerswhoaretheei…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/obama-abuse-espionage-act-mcca…)*The President signed into law The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which has a provision that allows the president to use the military to indefinitely detain American citizens without a trial or jury. The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a challenge to this.
(http://www.salon.com/…/obama_signs_ndaa_2014_indefinite_de…/)
(http://mobile.wnd.com/…/supreme-court-green-lights-detenti…/)
(http://m.thenewamerican.com/…)*In 2011-12 the President signed into law H.R. 347, the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act .” This has given the Secret Service more authority to deal with protestors. Anyone who is protesting around areas under the protection of the Secret Service can find themselves in a lot of trouble.
(http://www.inquisitr.com/…/president-obama-signs-anti-prot…/) (http://www.slate.com/…/the_anti_protest_bill_signed_by_bara…) (https://www.aclu.org/…/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-pr…)( http://www.justiceonline.org/comm…/hr-347-get-the-truth.html)*Does the most invasive surveillance system known to man-kind even need to be brought up? Does the NSA’s collection of our phone calls, texts, pictures, internet history, etc. even need to have citations? I believe this is common knowledge. But here are facts on his broken promise of getting rid of the PATRIOT ACT.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/sen-obama-warned-about-pat…/)(http://articles.latimes.com/…/la-oe-sensenbrenner-data-patr…) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/patriot-act-extension-signe…)* Guantanamo Bay still remains open after his promise to close it. Not only that, the United States has begun force-feeding hunger striking inmates who are in there without a conviction, trial, judge, or jury.
(http://www.politico.com/…/…/obama-guantanamo-bay-107333.html)(http://www.theatlantic.com/…/obamas-gitmo-provocati…/381350/)(http://www.theguardian.com/…/obama-guantanamo-hunger-strike…)( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/guantanamo-force-feeding_n_…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/guantanamo-force-feeding-punis…)*The Executive Branch used Federal agencies, specifically the IRS on political opponents and dissenters.
(http://www.politico.com/…/timeline-of-the-irs-scandal-11118…)(http://www.reuters.com/…/15/us-usa-irs-idUSBRE94E02J20130515)(http://www.cbsnews.com/…/irs-progressive-groups-flagged-bu…/)(http://articles.latimes.com/…/la-na-irs-conservatives-20130…)*The White House has memos justifying the assassination of American citizens. The Executive Branch can quite literally be the lawyer, judge, and jury.
(http://www.nytimes.com/…/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo) (http://www.democracynow.org/…/kill_list_exposed_leaked_obam…) (http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/…/white-house-release…/)*Some of the most obscene hypocrisy of the President is his continuation and explanation of the War on Drugs. The War on Drugs is a gross human-rights violation that disproportionally targets minorities in areas of poverty. It is the main cause in the United States having the highest incarceration rate in the world. Obama has raided and arrested more people for State legal medical marijuana than his predecessor. The President openly acknowledged recreational drug use in his book, and 6 years later he’s still kidnapping and throwing people in a cage for the same drugs he used. Ask yourself this question, would he have become President if arrested for recreational drug use?
(http://www.thenation.com/article/176920/blowing-smoke)(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obama-marijuana-raids-rolli…)(http://thinkprogress.org/…/…/dea-raids-washington-marijuana/)(http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/obama-says-he-ended-the-wa…/) (http://www.denverpost.com/…/dea-raids-vip-cannabis-cuts-ope…)Obamacare:
I never understood the support for The Affordable Care Act. To begin with, it never gave anyone healthcare but health insurance. This is an important distinction because supporters of the law generally don’t like “evil” health insurance companies. The reality is this law forces everyone to purchase insurance from these companies. It’s nothing like a healthcare system you see in Canada or Europe. This is Big Government and Big Corporations in bed together 101. Besides this, the law has had some disastrous effects.*The Affordable Care Act has caused millions of people to lose their doctors, despite the President’s promise.
(http://dailycaller.com/…/doctors-begin-to-refuse-obamacare…/)(http://townhall.com/…/obama-sorry-no-you-cant-necessarily-k…)(http://swampland.time.com/…/you-can-keep-your-doctor-obama…/)*The Affordable Care Act has caused millions of people to lose their current health insurance. You could argue this was by design to push more people through this crony-capitalism insurance exchange.
(http://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/)(http://www.businessinsider.com/at-least-35-million-american…)(http://www.weeklystandard.com/…/millions-americans-are-losi…)(http://www.forbes.com/…/obamacare-shows-america-suffers-fr…/)*The Affordable Care Act has raised the price of insurance and premiums for millions of people. He conveniently is hiding the 2015 prices after the election. And allowed businesses to be exempt from the law until 2015 as well as giving waivers to his politically connected friends.
(http://thehill.com/…/214847-average-premium-under-obamacare…)(http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/obamacare-website-wont-r…/…)(http://www.forbes.com/…/49-state-analysis-obamacare-to-inc…/)(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obamacare-premiums-2015_n_5…) (http://reason.com/…/10/01/who-gets-an-exemption-from-obamac…)Miscellaneous Corruption:
*Appointed industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler as head of the FCC which is currently responsible for some troubling opinions about net neutrality.
(http://business.time.com/…/tom-wheeler-former-lobbyist-and…/)(http://www.theguardian.com/…/2…/may/01/obama-tom-wheeler-fcc) (http://www.newyorker.com/…/obamas-bad-pick-a-former-lobbyis…)( http://sunlightfoundation.com/…/obama-bundler-tom-wheeler-…/)*Used Executive Privilege to cover up evidence against Attorney General Eric Holder giving weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels.
(http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/obama-asserts-executive-…/…) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obama-executive-privilege-f…) (http://articles.latimes.com/…/la-pn-obama-invokes-executive…)* The President’s Administration has a tendency of appointing campaign donors to federal positions. Including but not limited to Ambassadors and positions within the Justice Department.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/…/980c010a-796a-11e3-8963-b4b…) (http://www.theguardian.com/…/obama-donors-top-embassy-jobs-…) (http://www.allgov.com/…/obama-outdoes-previous-presidents-i…)How will the history books remember Barack Obama? This generation will have to make that determination, and I hope these facts are part of it.
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