“Though he has made many promises regarding the need for our country to rejoin the world community of nations, by filing this appeal, President Obama has taken on the defense of one of the Bush administration’s unlawful policies founded on nothing more than the idea that might makes right,” she said. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Greenwald investigates and takes the facts wherever they lead. Here they lead to the conclusion that Obama is acting to give himself police state powers around the world that are more extreme than Bush tried to claim.
I’m not searching for ways to criticize Obama. I wish I could be writing paeans celebrating the restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law. But these actions — these contradictions between what he said and what he is doing, the embrace of the very powers that caused so much anger towards Bush/Cheney — are so blatant, so transparent, so extreme, that the only way to avoid noticing them is to purposely shut your eyes as tightly as possible and resolve that you don’t want to see it, or that you’re so convinced of his intrinsic Goodness that you’ll just believe that even when it seems like he’s doing bad things, he must really be doing them for the Good.
I feel like I have been conned by Obama false posing as an advocate for the rule of law and the constitution. It is time for serious bottom-up democracy. Or is he opposed to that now too?