Why I Posted this to Facebook:
I posted this because most people still believe Obama is better than the alternative when it comes to civil liberties and promoting peace in the world. The conventional wisdom is that Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize and Romney is the warmonger who will trample on our liberties. The truth is that Obama is no better. Obama not only has not protected our civil liberties but he was elected promising to do exactly that. People hear criticism of Obama and automatically think it is "bullshit," but it is not.
Obama is highly supported by corporations, slightly less than Romney but significantly more than Ron Paul.
Obama authorized the assassination of US citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki and his 15 year old son, going further than even President Bush was willing to go. Source
Obama had a chance to give voters someone to rally behind to really protect their rights, freedoms, and fight to change government. He has not. He has doubled down on Bush era policy. There is no "Obama Doctrine." There is just the Drone heavy, take no prisoners version of the Bush Doctrine perpetuated by Obama.
Obama signed off on the NDAA. The power now entrusted to the executive branch is scary. That was what really cemented it for me.
The beauty of this grpahic, and the reason I posted it, is because it starts off humbly reminding us of why we love Obama, it is simple and to the point. He was a man who made it despite the odds, a person not from the inside, not born into wealth, not chummy with the big corporations. Then it brutally reminds us that he failed to live up to expectations. That he is in fact just an establishment President.
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