The U.S. President recently visited Australia and was greeted with gushing adulation from almost every part of our society. This came not just from the people one expects it from, like our lapdog politicians or lazy media, but also from ordinary people, even those who are generally quite politically aware. I was particularly disappointed by Senator Bob Brown, who rightly heckled George Bush in 2003, but who shook Barack Obama’s hand and gushed about it on Twitter later. Australians apparently don’t pay enough attention to foreign politics to realise that it isn’t November 2008 anymore, and rather than being the reincarnation of Martin Luther King, the anti-Bush, the answer to the evil of the last decade, Obama has instead turned out to be a disgrace to his office and a traitor to his country – for all the same reasons Bush was.
A quick recap of why Obama is a terrible President and a bad person:
1. Failure to prosecute Bush Administration officials for what were clearly war crimes. (The usual cop-out argument appears to be “it would tear the country apart/it was a time of war and bad decisions were made/it’s an outrageous Radical Left-Wing idea. Apparently the President is above the law. I see why America went to the trouble of deposing the monarchy.)
2. Engaging in his own war crimes, such as kidnapping people and throwing them into prison for years on end without trial. (Astute readers will note that this is a continued Mao Stalin Bush policy.)
3. Slaughtering Pakistani civilians by the bucketload with flying robots, which will breed a new generation of terrorists more efficiently than anything else I can think of. (This was a policy that began under Bush and was honed and cultivated to successful new levels under Obama.)
4. Assassinating anybody, anywhere in the world, at any time, with no independent judicial oversight, including American citizens. And their children. (Even Bush never dared do this.)
5. An unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers who expose government waste, wrongdoing or criminal acts.
6. Total subserviance to the reckless plutocrats who obliterated the U.S. economy and ruined millions of lives.
I was genuinely excited in November 2008, when Obama was elected President. I have long since accepted his betrayal, and come to the realisation that no matter who sits in the White House, the U.S. government will always be the U.S. government. What I now have to accept is that intelligent, progressive, left-wing politicians like Bob Brown are either too ignorant to realise or to shallow to care that Obama is just as much of a murderer, bully and tyrant as George Bush.
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November 22, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Sunrise089
Good comment, I think the far left over here shares your views but you’re absolutely right that to most people all that matters is whether the politician belongs to the same party they do or not. Perhaps the institution of government itself has some sort of tendency to bring out the worst in people. Hmm… ;)
November 23, 2011 at 12:49 am
johnfromdaejeon
I believe that people have a tendency to bring out the worst people no matter their lots in life, but you can always visit Robert A. Heinlein’s anarchist paradise Coventry to see the Grand Master’s take on people bring out the worst in each other. Sadly, no form of government is even remotely close to being satisfactory, and I’m 100% sure that that will always be the case. However, it would be really something if the U.S. does go belly up. I doubt that any country in the world would be able to stand up to the likes of China and Russia to keep them from taking what they want…whenever they want it…wherever it is on the planet. It’s going to be an interesting couple of centuries, especially, if global warming really gets going and water, arable land, and low-lying land are suddenly in very short supply. Hell, it’ll be an interesting couple of centuries if the opposite happened and the Earth started cooling again. Either way, there are an awful lot of people using more or more of the Earth’s dwindling supply of recourses. Eventually, something has got to give, and I’d wager all I have that it won’t be pretty.
November 23, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Smileyfax
Obama is pretty rotten, but at least he isn’t a Dominionist, or outright insane, like most of the Republican candidates vying for their party’s nomination next year. So, barring something crazy like a viable third party candidate, I’ll end up voting for him next November, if only because things would actually be worse otherwise, if you can believe it.
November 24, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Mitch
I’m so glad that Australia has preferential voting, making us one of the few countries where we can vote for a desirable third party while still doing a “damage control” vote to keep the less desirable of the two main parties out. Australia has a lot of flaws, but it’s small civic things like that (or plastic banknotes, or the emergency number being 000) that make me appreciate our sensible bureaucrats.
December 8, 2011 at 12:39 am
Jeff
Bit harsh. You should counter that with the administration’s positives during the last four years. Those may be harder to see since you are not a U.S. citizen.
December 8, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Mitch
“My neighbour may be a brutal serial killer, but he does keep his yard tidy and collect my mail for me when I go on vacation.”
December 9, 2011 at 3:10 am
Jeff
and my other neighbor may lash out at me for speaking my mind, but he does put gas in my car when the tank gets empty.