I was and remained concerned about backlash. I have to listen to a lot of Obama jokes and hear a lot of hate thrown that mans way. No one blamed me when the president was white.
I expected a hardline on certain issues and a willingness to use the bully pulpit to sway issues on the side of truth, righteousness and shared ideals. Naïve? Perhaps but what's the use of a black president then? Why do I have to hear racist jokes and deal with white guys resentful of his success?
So that he can betray or at least not present the legitimate historical aspirations of hundreds of millions of Americans?
DNA swabs from arrest only.
Data mining of phone records (including real time location tracking).
Data mining of technology companies.
2008 bailouts.
IRS targeting of Tea Party.
Telling the Boston police they acted stupidly and then suggesting the nation have a conversation about race over drinks (sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction).
Extension of FBI directors tenure (yes he is retiring. I think in light of the history behind the law and recent revelations of domestic surveillance the exception should not have been sought)
COINTELPRO clearly means nothing to the man with a bust of MLK in his office. That's how he was able to lobby for an extension for the FBI director. That's how a massive domestics surveillance program can take place on his watch (see the recent revelations concerning PRISM and the NSA retrieval of phone data). Most worrisome by not allowing failed businesses to fail and subjecting them to onerous regulation (state control) along with a dash of socialism he has essentially created a fascist state in America. Some selected quotes below
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Fascist ideology consistently invoked the primacy of the state.
Fascism supports a state-controlled economy that accepts a mix of private and public ownership over the means of production. Economic planning is applied to both the public and private sector in a fascist economy, the prosperity of private enterprise depended on its acceptance of synchronizing itself with the fascist state's economic goals. It supports the profit motive. However it emphasizes that industries must uphold the national interest as superior to private profit."
Yes, the Congress and judicial branch certainly helped. It's taken ,and this is a SWAG, millions of Americans working day and night to build the infrastructure, pass the laws and operate the machinery of the state. Expecting Obama to single handily resist this juggernaut is unrealistic.
Yet the president not only has the bully pulpit but can speak truth to power. More citizens donated to his campaign than ever before. His public support was remarkable. Yet his only major domestic policy achievement is exactly what would have happened had Hilary Clinton won the presidency, a healthcare bill.
The distinction between candidate Obama and president Obama is sharp.
In summation my expectation was of an activist president who consistently went in the direction of and made the choices MLK would have made or Gandhi or Frederick Douglass or any other champion of liberty.
I expected a hardline on certain issues and a willingness to use the bully pulpit to sway issues on the side of truth, righteousness and shared ideals. Naïve? Perhaps but what's the use of a black president then? Why do I have to hear racist jokes and deal with white guys resentful of his success?
So that he can betray or at least not present the legitimate historical aspirations of hundreds of millions of Americans?
DNA swabs from arrest only.
Data mining of phone records (including real time location tracking).
Data mining of technology companies.
2008 bailouts.
IRS targeting of Tea Party.
Telling the Boston police they acted stupidly and then suggesting the nation have a conversation about race over drinks (sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction).
Extension of FBI directors tenure (yes he is retiring. I think in light of the history behind the law and recent revelations of domestic surveillance the exception should not have been sought)
COINTELPRO clearly means nothing to the man with a bust of MLK in his office. That's how he was able to lobby for an extension for the FBI director. That's how a massive domestics surveillance program can take place on his watch (see the recent revelations concerning PRISM and the NSA retrieval of phone data). Most worrisome by not allowing failed businesses to fail and subjecting them to onerous regulation (state control) along with a dash of socialism he has essentially created a fascist state in America. Some selected quotes below
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Fascist ideology consistently invoked the primacy of the state.
Fascism supports a state-controlled economy that accepts a mix of private and public ownership over the means of production. Economic planning is applied to both the public and private sector in a fascist economy, the prosperity of private enterprise depended on its acceptance of synchronizing itself with the fascist state's economic goals. It supports the profit motive. However it emphasizes that industries must uphold the national interest as superior to private profit."
Yes, the Congress and judicial branch certainly helped. It's taken ,and this is a SWAG, millions of Americans working day and night to build the infrastructure, pass the laws and operate the machinery of the state. Expecting Obama to single handily resist this juggernaut is unrealistic.
Yet the president not only has the bully pulpit but can speak truth to power. More citizens donated to his campaign than ever before. His public support was remarkable. Yet his only major domestic policy achievement is exactly what would have happened had Hilary Clinton won the presidency, a healthcare bill.
The distinction between candidate Obama and president Obama is sharp.
In summation my expectation was of an activist president who consistently went in the direction of and made the choices MLK would have made or Gandhi or Frederick Douglass or any other champion of liberty.