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sophiaserpentiaHonestly, i felt great after watching his big speech. I dared, for a fleeting moment, to even have a little bit of hope. But i should have remembered never to listen to anything any politician says and watch only what they do. What the White House is actually doing is, to say the least, distressing.
Obama is again defending Bush's human rights abuses and seeking to expand them. From Obama to Appeal Detainee Ruling:
Remember the jokes about conservative radio hosts doing nothing more than reading off a daily set of talking points faxed to them by the Bush Administration? Read this and weep: the White House has established a group called "Common Purpose" which is basically tasked with guiding (or if necessary strongarming) progressive organizations into promoting the administration's agenda.
The Treasury's being plundered by Wall Street, unions are being forced to accept concessions, military spending is up, the war is being expanded, the White House is fighting harder than ever before against human rights and privacy, and the overall impression that's starting to form in my mind is of a brewing disaster.
Obama is again defending Bush's human rights abuses and seeking to expand them. From Obama to Appeal Detainee Ruling:
The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight.
In a court filing, the Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Judge Bates ruled last week that the three — each of whom says he was seized outside of Afghanistan — could challenge their detention in court.
Remember the jokes about conservative radio hosts doing nothing more than reading off a daily set of talking points faxed to them by the Bush Administration? Read this and weep: the White House has established a group called "Common Purpose" which is basically tasked with guiding (or if necessary strongarming) progressive organizations into promoting the administration's agenda.
The Treasury's being plundered by Wall Street, unions are being forced to accept concessions, military spending is up, the war is being expanded, the White House is fighting harder than ever before against human rights and privacy, and the overall impression that's starting to form in my mind is of a brewing disaster.
